Neil Crockett
Managing Director, Cisco London 2012
Neil leads Cisco´s London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games sponsorship team. He´s responsible for delivering a mission critical network that supports the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) and its associated partners as preparations continue towards the Games.
Emma RoffeyEmma Roffey
Director, Communications & Digital Marketing European Markets, Cisco
Emma Roffey is a Marketing Director at Cisco responsible for both the Emerging region and has EMEA wide responsibility for Brand, Advertising, Digital Marketing and Events. Emma has over 20 years' experience in the publishing and information technology industry. Roffey joined Cisco in 2003 to run the EMEA Contact Centre Operation and has held various positions within Cisco marketing including the SMB Marketing Director Europe. Prior to joining Cisco, Emma was the sales director of SpikesCavell&Co an Analytical Direct Marketing start up, was VP of Commerce for the internet B2B start up Mondus and spent 12 years in the IT publishing industry where she was the launch publishing director of IT Week and was recognized as publisher of the Year.
Emma has a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in Geography, married with two girls, is a keen sportswoman and a member of the South Oxon Young Enterprise Board.
Ian Foddering
Chief Technology Officer and Technical Director
Cisco UK & Ireland
Ian Foddering is the Chief Technology Officer and Technical Director for Cisco in the UK and Ireland. Together with his technical teams, his key objective is to work with Cisco's Customers and Partners to articulate how Cisco's architectures and solutions can be applied to drive business transformation.
Ian is also the technical lead and spokesperson for Cisco in their role as the Official Network Infrastructure provider to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, as well as leading the British Innovation Gateway, Cisco's 5 year plan to creating a legacy around the Games, driving innovation and entrepreneurship in the UK.
Ian has a passion for technology, and the positive impact it has on society, fervently believing we are still only at the being of what is possible with respect to the power of ICT.
After joining Cisco in 1999, Ian has held various roles including systems engineer, systems engineering management, sales management, channel management, and leading advance technology teams.
Prior to joining Cisco in September 1999, Ian spent 4 years at Cogent, the professional services arm of Nortel, working on a number of predominately large Public Sector solutions.
Ian studied Communications Systems Engineering from the University of Portsmouth. He lives, with his family, in Hertfordshire and enjoys participating and watching sport, cars and travelling.
Ian Symes
Marketing Director, UK and Ireland Markets, Cisco
Ian is Marketing Director for UK and Ireland, including Cisco's sponsorship of London 2012.
He held various executive positions at Electrolux, Interpet and Zanussi before establishing a successful strategic marketing consultancy called Wolfpack Marketing. In 2006, with almost 20 years sales and marketing experience, Ian then moved to San Jose, California to join Cisco and lead global marketing and business development for an internal start-up.
He has a degree in Chemistry, a Diploma in Marketing and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Outside of work, Ian enjoys spending time with his family, playing golf, watching international rugby, and listening to Blues music.
Russell Craig
Marketing Director, UK and Ireland Markets, Cisco
Russell Craig is a manager in the global public sector practice of the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). Based in London, Russell works with the public sector across Europe.
Russell brings significant public sector experience to his role in IBSG. From the late 1990’s he played a lead role in development and implementation of the New Zealand egovernment programme. He has also worked in the health sector, where he was involved in creating the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation – the intergovernmental body that owns and operates SNOMED CT® (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms), which is the most comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology in the world.
Russell also spent 2004 & 2005 working in Paris as part of the OECD’s eGovernment project.
Russell joined Cisco in Hong Kong, where he worked with governments across Asia to transform the way the designed and delivered public services using digital technologies. Since moving from Hong Kong to London, Russell has been leading Cisco’s British Innovation Gateway programme – Cisco’s 5 year/$500 million commitment to supporting technology-enabled innovation and growth in the UK. He also has significant involvement in advising public sector clients around the world on adoption of cloud computing and video collaboration technologies.
Phoebe Leet
Cisco, Head of HR UK and Ireland
Phoebe has worked at Cisco for eight years in a variety of roles. She joined their HR team within Inside Sales and Systems Engineers. In that role, she built an operations function to deliver the programme of HR work across EMEA. Phoebe has also led HR for sales teams in the UK and Ireland.
Before joining Cisco and progressing her HR career, Phoebe worked in the Strategy and Planning team for O2 and was an industry analyst at Gartner Group. Phoebe's a keen chef who loves country walks and spending time with her family.
Tom Kneen
Business Development Manager, London 2012
Tom joined Cisco in October 1999 as Regional Manager for the manufacturing sector. His initial role was to grow the Cisco sales market for manufacturing which led to the formation of multiple teams across the Commercial Sales organisation.
He spent eight years in Cisco Enterprise sales, running a variety teams in the manufacturing, pharmaceutical, automotive, aerospace and hi-tech sectors and running the Manufacturing, Retail, Transport and Business Services Operation in the UK and Ireland.
In these roles, he took a keen interest in the Cisco partner and outsource relationships ensuring Cisco had a broad range of talented and skilled partners.
Tom was also responsible for the Cisco Channel team focused on Cisco's IT Services and their outsourcing partners in the UK and Ireland.
In his current role, Tom is responsible for all business development opportunities in and around London 2012 – including managing relationships with LOCOG and the Olympic family and the major adjacent opportunities including the Olympic legacy.
He is a keen runner, cyclist and skier and also enjoys playing a bit of tennis. He is married with two children.
Daniel Aziz
Head of Marketing, London 2012
I'm currently Head of Marketing for London 2012 and prior to this I led brand marketing and communications for Cisco UK and Ireland. Before joining Cisco, I worked for a leading consumer electronics manufacture leading marketing campaigns for both the mobile phone and home entertainment divisions. And before this, I acquired several years in product management at a leading international retailer after graduating with a specialism in marketing and advertising communications.
Outside of Cisco, I enjoy cooking on my barbeque, come rain or shine (I do a great chicken dish, rolled with Parma ham and cheese) as well as cycling (cycled London to Paris but got the train back), running and more recently I learnt to fence. I have a fondness for F1, go-karting, gadgets and blockbuster movies - my DVD/Blu-ray collection is getting a bit out of hand!
Pippa Collett
Manager, Digital Marketing Programme UK and Ireland Markets, Cisco
A Cranfield MBA, member of the Marketing Society and Founder Charter Marketer, Pippa lives in London with her family. London 2012 has inspired her to adopt a new fitness regime but her real passion is for the sport of carriage driving.
Amr Elrawi
Manager, Digital Marketing Programme UK and Ireland Markets Cisco
Amr Elrawi is the Digital Marketing Programme Manager for UK and Ireland, plus Digital lead for London 2012.
He has strong online, digital and marketing skills with over 12 years solid global experience. Before joining Cisco, Amr spent 10 years at Vodafone where he held a number of positions in the online and digital spaces.
He has a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts from Helwan University and MBA degree from Warwick Business School.
In his spare time, Amr enjoys football and photography.