Julie O'Brien is a Director of Solutions Marketing for Unified Communications. In this capacity, Ms. O'Brien is responsible for solution messaging and go-to-market activities for Cisco's Unified Communications strategy and product portfolio including IP Telephony, Presence, Messaging, Video, Web and Audio Conferencing and Contact Center products. Ms. O'Brien joined Cisco as part of its May 2000 acquisition of SightPath, Inc., a content networking company, where she drove product marketing for the company's on-premise caching and streaming products. During her 15 year marketing career, Ms. O'Brien has held a variety of marketing roles in both start-up and Fortune 500 companies. She actively shares her expertise in networking, unified communications, and video technologies at industry conferences, Cisco and partner events, and customer meetings. Ms. O'Brien holds a BA/MBA from Bentley College in Waltham, Massashusetts. Expertise: Networking, unified communications, and video technologies, solutions marketing