Gerri Elliott

Gerri is currently a Senior Advisor for BCG in the technology and go to market areas of sales, marketing, customer success, channels and services. She was a Strategic Advisor and former Chief Customer & Partner Officer for Cisco, where she led all sales, systems engineering, marketing and channel strategies and execution for all of Cisco's revenue worldwide. She was a member of the Executive Leadership Team. Gerri is an independent board member for Whirlpool. Formerly, Gerri was EVP, Chief Customer Officer for Juniper, responsible for driving the strategic and operational elements of the Sales, Marketing, Services and Support functions at Juniper Networks. She led a global organization of more than 3,500 professionals that included direct and indirect sales, systems engineering, marketing, advanced technologies, channel partners and alliances, field operations, services and support in 140 offices in over 40 countries. Gerri joined Juniper Networks from Microsoft after a 7 year stint there, where as CVP, WW Public Sector, reporting to the COO, she led a team of more than 2,000 sales and marketing professionals that served government, education and healthcare customers in more than 100 countries. She grew the business from $4.7B to $8.0B over 3 years. She was also co-head of the company's $10B North American subsidiary. Prior to Microsoft, Gerri spent 22 years at IBM both in the U.S. and abroad. She held key executive and management positions in strategy development, services and consulting, product management, and sales field and headquarters leadership. Based out of Tokyo for two years, she served as vice president of IBM’s Asia Pacific Distribution Sector, and was then promoted to a larger role as vice president of the Americas Distribution Sector. Specialties: Strategic Partnerships, Sales Leadership, Operational Leadership, Solution Selling Strategy and Execution, Public Sector, Retail Industries