Cisco Names Top 2009 Partners

Cisco Partner Summit — To recognize the performance of its top global and theater channel partners in 2009, Cisco Systems Inc. unveiled its Partner Summit award winners Thursday in San Francisco at its global partner event.

The 19 global honorees were selected from more than 60,000 Cisco channel partners worldwide for their outstanding performance in 2009. Fourteen were recognized for global excellence, and five for excellence in a specific geographic region.

The Cisco Partner Summit global and theater award winners are nominated by their Cisco theater sales teams. Nominations are reviewed by a group of Cisco worldwide and theater channel executives.

The Cisco Partner Summit global award winners are:

The theater award winners were:

“Cisco is dedicated to helping our partners make the bold moves to transition from navigating in the economic downturn to accelerating growth in the upturn,” said Keith Goodwin, senior vice president for Cisco’s worldwide partner organization. “It has been an honor and privilege to recognize our top 2009 global performers this week at the Cisco Partner Summit.”