Patricia Sampson is a senior marketing manager in the Gobal Partner Marketing organization at Cisco Systems and holds more than fifteen years of marketing experience in the telecommunications industry. During her tenure at Cisco, she has held a variety of positions in sales, channels and marketing. Pat held various positions in other high-tech companies in Technical Education and Training, Product Lifecycle Management, and Channel Development and Marketing. She holds a Masters in Business Administration from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, and a Bachelors degree in Business from Towson University in Towson, Maryland.