Patrice D’Eramo

PATRICE D’ERAMO is vice president, Americas field marketing organization for Cisco. She leads field marketing for Cisco’s largest geographic region, which includes the United States, Canada and Latin America. Her organization is responsible for developing and executing the strategic marketing plan for more than $20 billion in annual sales, and driving the customer experience for all customer segments and channel partners. She has won several industry awards, including the Women in Technology Corporate Leadership award, Ingram Micro’s “Women in Technology Giving Back” award, YWCA’s “Tribute to Women and Industry (TWIN)” award and Federal Computer Week’s “Federal 100 Award.” D’Eramo is on the Cisco Connected Women advisory board and an executive co-sponsor of the VA/MD/DC chapter of the Cisco Connected Women Employee resource group. She is vice chair of the Million Women Mentors leadership council, an executive sponsor of the Cisco Empowered Women’s Network and on the American Red Cross board of directors – National Capital Region. She is also active in the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, is an advocate for the Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health and is the treasurer of her daughter’s Girl Scout Troop. D’Eramo earned a B.A. in business administration from Clarion University of Pennsylvania. @cisco