Chad Reese
Senior Director, Marketing Operations, Cisco
Chad Reese leads Marketing Operations for Cisco. In his marketing technology and operations role, he is accountable for delivering an end-to-end marketing technology strategy, customer operations, and demand operations to orchestrate exceptional B2B omnichannel customer experiences that deliver growth for Cisco. In his activation role, he enables campaign execution and Cisco.com publishing in 59 countries and 27 languages worldwide. In the last 20+ years at Cisco, Chad’s contributions have included leading Partner Revenue Marketing delivering sales qualified pipeline (SQL) globally. He led the Worldwide Commercial Field Marketing team supporting the transition to a partner-led sales and marketing model. Chad led the Worldwide Partner Acceleration team responsible for the planning and execution of demand generation programs with Cisco’s channel partners worldwide. He led the Distribution Accelerated Partner (DAP) demand generation initiative working with the field to increase sell-through of Cisco products and solutions via Cisco’s 120+ distribution partners worldwide. And Chad led Cisco’s worldwide Mid-Market Security marketing program to increase awareness and drive demand for Cisco “Self-Defending Network” security solutions. Chad earned a B.A. degree in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Cruz.