Woody Sessoms

Woody Sessoms is a Senior Vice President at Cisco Systems with responsibilities for Cisco’s Global Enterprise Theatre and the Private Sector Business. Through these roles, Sessoms develops thought leadership for Cisco’s efforts around its largest global enterprise clients as well as the enterprise solutions Cisco brings to the marketplace. Through his globally dispersed and empowered teams, Sessoms leads the development and execution of business strategies that build a model for the next generation company.

The Global Enterprise Theater is a client-focused organization aligned to key industry segments for all aspects of Cisco’s business. It is comprised of strategic and highly complex global enterprise accounts who partner with Cisco to implement global technology architectures that solve client key business issues. By creating a more intimate knowledge of the clients business, the Global Enterprise Theater delivers integrated business solutions and services that create unique business value for Cisco’s clients.

As a recognized leader of innovation, Sessoms leads two strategic programs within the scope of the Global Enterprise Theater. The first is the Cisco 3.0 Enterprise Program focused on the next generation customer relationships and next generation Cisco go-to-market. The second is the Cisco’s Global Accounts Program - recognized by the Strategic Accounts Management Association (SAMA) as the top Global Accounts Program 2 of the past 4 years and the only repeat winner with this distinction.

The Private Sector Business is focused on scaling the Global Enterprise Theater’s best practices and learnings to a larger set of enterprise transformational clients. In this role, Sessoms is accountable for driving the adoption of consistent business engagement models and the consistent structure of Transformational Business Development Sales Teams outside of GET.

Sessoms experience encompasses a broad range of technologies and solutions areas as well as management leadership at Cisco. Sessoms joined Cisco in 1994 with business responsibilities for the Carolinas. During his 16 year tenure at Cisco, he has served in various sales and sales management positions. Prior to joining Cisco, Woody held various sales management positions at ROLM Corporation, IBM and Siemens.
Sessoms sits on several companies Board of Directors.