Gary Steele

Gary Steele is Cisco’s President, Go-to-Market, leading a unified organization across Cisco’s Sales, Partner, and Global Marketing teams to accelerate customer outcomes and drive growth across the enterprise. In addition, Gary leads Splunk at Cisco. A highly regarded technology executive with over 30 years of experience, he has a proven track record of successfully scaling SaaS operations and growing multi-billion dollar global enterprises. Prior to joining Splunk, Gary was the founding CEO of Proofpoint, where he led the company’s growth from an early-stage start-up to a leading, publicly traded security-as-a-service provider. He previously served as CEO of Portera and held various leadership roles at Sybase, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. Gary has also served as a member of the board of directors of Upwork, a talent freelancing platform, since 2018. He holds a B.S. from Washington State University.