Bangkok--13 Sep--PC & Associates Consulting
Cisco Systems(R) has appointed Mike Allen as director for channels in Asia Pacific. Reporting to Keith Goodwin, senior vice president for the Worldwide Channels Organisation in Cisco(R), Allen will drive the strategy and development of the more than 6,000 Cisco channel partners in the Asia Pacific region.
Close to 100 percent of Cisco’s solutions and services in the region are sold through Cisco channel partners, and they play a key role in extending the reach of Cisco’s sales force. Allen replaces Janice Hulse, who moves to a new role in Cisco’s regional operations as senior director for global account management.
“As we continue to enhance our industry-leading Channel Partner Program to help us lead, evolve and grow with our channel partners, we are also looking to build a world-class leadership team capable of driving growth and innovation. Mike has the leadership qualities and the experience to ensure our key objectives of driving partner profitability and increasing partner satisfaction are sustained in Asia Pacific,” said Goodwin.
Allen was previously the head of advanced technology and operations for an area that covered 11 states in United States and Canada. He joined Cisco seven years ago when Cisco acquired Fibex Systems. Allen has 16 years of experience in the technology industry and is no stranger to Asia Pacific. He covered the region for a company called Broadband Technologies and also worked in the Asian semiconductor division of NEC. He will be based in Singapore with his wife and two children.
Cisco announced enhancements to its award-winning Channel Partner Program in March of this year, to align with changing customer requirements and market growth opportunities. The enhanced Cisco Channel Partner Program assists and rewards partners who develop the technology breadth to deploy broad, integrated network solutions and the technology depth to deploy advanced security services, Unified Communications applications and other highly specialized solutions.
The program also incorporates the Cisco Lifecycle Services approach to help partners successfully deploy, operate and optimize Cisco solutions, which can influence profitability and strengthen customer relationships.
In Thailand, the partners and distributors of Cisco are including the Gold Certified Partners namely Datacraft (Thailand) Ltd. , IBM Thailand Co.,Ltd., Advanced Information Technology Public Co.,Ltd. The Silver Certified Partner namely Atos Origin (Thailand) Ltd., Datapro Computer Systems Co.,Ltd., Hewlett-Packard (Thailand) Ltd., NetOne Network Solution Co.,Ltd. and NCR (Thailand) Ltd.
The Premier Certified Partner are includes Aware Corporation Limited Chiang Mai, EICS Co.,Ltd., Hatari Wireless Co.,Ltd., Infonet Thailand Group, NEC Corporation (Thailand) Ltd., PP Ontime Co.,Ltd. Samart Telecom Public Co.,Ltd., Telindus (Thailand) Ltd., Thai Transmission Industry Co.,Ltd., True Corporation Public Co.,Ltd., RANET Co.,Ltd., The Practical Solution Co.,Ltd. and Computer & Video Lab Co.,Ltd., and Authorized Distributor, which are Ingram Micro (Thailand) Co.,Ltd., The Value Systems Co.,Ltd and Synnex (Thailand) Co.,Ltd.
About Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Information about Cisco can be found at www.cisco.com . For ongoing news, please go to newsroom.cisco.com. Asia Pacific news and information are available at www.cisco.com/asiapac/news .
Cisco, Cisco Systems, and the Cisco Systems logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word partner does not indicate a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company. This document is Cisco Public Information.
For more information, please contact: News Release issue by:
Suchitra Kovitwanichkanont. Utsanee Ua-ariyasup
Cisco Systems (Thailand) Ltd. PC & Associates Consulting Co., Ltd.
Tel: 0 2263 7055 (Direct) Tel: 0 2971 3711
Fax: 0 2253 8440 Fax: 0-2521 9030
Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]
Click for photo release at www.thaipr.net