Formerly: Management Consultant, Coopers & Lybrand; management positions, Digital Equipment; Director, Global Network Management Centres, AT&T; Sales Director, Europe, Middle East, Africa, AT&T Managed Services; Corporate Account Consultant, then Operating Executive, Services Integration Business Unit, KPN-Telecom. Since 2000, with Cisco Systems, including: Major Opportunity Manager, Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, CIS Countries, Middle East, Africa; Director, Business Development, Advanced Technologies, Russia, Middle East, Africa; General Manager, Emerging Africa; since 2009, current position and Managing Director for the region.