Grover Smith, III:
CLASS OF 1970
Brazosport High SchoolClass of 1970
Freeport, TX
Southwest Texas State University - Computer ScienceClass of 1974
San marcos, TX
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Grover C. Smith, III
Vice President, Global Account Program
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Mr. Smith is the Vice President managing the Global Accounts organization at Cisco Systems, Inc. Responsibilities include managing the team that is building, developing and implementing the programs, services and initiatives for Cisco¿s Global Accounts. This includes the world wide field structure, direction, compensation, Executive Sponsorship Program, Global Customer Advisory Board, customer loyalty and customer satisfaction for the top 112 Enterprise and Service Provider Cisco global customer segment.
Prior to his current position, in his ten-year tenure at Cisco Systems, Inc, Mr. Smith was the Senior Director responsible for the field engagement, partner enablement and business process for the Cisco strategic alliances in addition to managing the strategic alliance with IBM. He was responsible for building, developing and leading the strateg...Expand for more
ic partnership efforts resulting in sustained competitive market advantage. This included managing the Cisco team that was responsible for business development, marketing development, sales engagement and project offices for the IBM strategic relationship on a worldwide basis.
Mr. Smith has spent 32 years in various sales and sales management positions in the information processing hardware, application software, system software, data networking and voice markets. Prior to recently joining Cisco, he worked for over 8 years delivering network-based data solutions at Computer Network Technology in the capacity of Regional Sales Manager, Area Sales Director and Vice President of Domestic Sales. He has also worked at Computer Associates Int¿l, Applied Data Research, IBM, ROLM, Tandem Computers, and Burroughs.
Mr. Smith holds a Bachelor of Science degree with a double major in Computer Sciences and Mathematics from Texas State University.
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