Eric Purcell

Global Partner & Revenue Growth Executive | Scaling Businesses & Emerging Technologies | Expert in Strategy & Execution, Global Go-To-Market, and Organizational Leadership

Denver, Colorado, United States

About

Global executive with a proven track record of crafting successful strategies, profitable partnerships, and accelerating sales. Offer diverse experience managing businesses through different phases, including growth from private to public, navigating successful acquisitions, and leading a $1B global business. Over two decades of experience in emerging technologies, including 5G, cloud computing, cybersecurity, SaaS, satellite, and wireless networking. I’ve built a career driving transformative growth and scaling businesses across global markets. I thrive on establishing a clear organizational vision, crafting innovative go-to-market strategies, and leading collaborative, high-performing teams to deliver sustainable revenue growth and operational excellence. My expertise spans global operations across the Americas, APAC, and EMEA, where I’ve navigated cultural and business complexities to achieve impactful results. Specialties: Executive Leadership, Enterprise Sales, SMB Sales, Strategic Partnerships, Global Expansion, Emerging Technologies, Advanced Technology Solutions, AI, Cloud/SaaS, 5G, Private Cellular Networking, Mobility, Go To Market Strategies, Indirect Channel Models, Public Speaking, Managing Diverse & Remote teams, Developing Partnerships and Ecosystems.

Experience

  • Senior Vice President, Global Partner Sales & Alliances at Semperis
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

    Semperis protects critical enterprise identity services for security teams charged with defending hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Purpose-built for securing hybrid identity environments—including Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta—Semperis’ AI-powered technology protects over 150 million identities from cyberattacks, data breaches, and operational errors. At Semperis, our team across all departments is part of a bigger mission to be a force for good. We fight every day to stop cyber criminals and curb the funding of evil. Semperis is a privately owned, international company headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, supporting the world’s biggest brands and government agencies, with customers in more than 40 countries.

  • Head of Enterprise Partner Business at Ericsson & SVP Global Partner Sales at Cradlepoint at Ericsson
    Jul 2023 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Cradlepoint was acquired by Ericsson in November of 2020. Responsible for the overall Global Partner Sales strategy, leadership, management, and revenue across Ericsson's Enterprise Wireless Solutions Portfolio & Cradlepoint’s Global Partner Business. Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions provide seamless networks with integrated security with Private Networks and Wireless WAN solutions. Ericsson Private Networks provide a broad portfolio of private 4G and 5G network solutions enabling use cases to accelerate digital transformation across businesses, industries, communities and governments. Wireless WAN provided by Cradlepoint, part of Ericsson, are cloud-enabled solutions with leading secure, reliable, highbandwidth connectivity to enterprise customers of all sizes. Cradlepoint’s compact WWAN routers and adapters are robust, agile, and portable.

  • Senior Vice President, Global Partner Sales at Cradlepoint, part of Ericsson
    Feb 2019 - Oct 2023 · 4 yrs 9 mos

    Responsible for Cradlepoint’s Global Partner Sales: Distribution, Integrator, Managed Service, Resale, Service Provider and Technology Alliance Partnerships. Cradlepoint was acquired by Ericsson in November of 2020 and operates as a standalone subsidiary. Cradlepoint connects People, Places, and Things- our NetCloud platform is at the heart of everything we do — a cloud-based subscription service that combines cloud management, software-defined networking, and unified edge security with industry-leading LTE and 5G networking technology to power purpose-built wireless edge routers.

  • Box (5 yrs 7 mos)
    • Vice President, Worldwide Service Provider Channel Sales
      Feb 2015 - Feb 2019 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    • Senior Director, Service Provider Channel Sales
      Aug 2013 - Feb 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Responsible for Service Provider Channel Strategy and Sales. Reinventing how the world uses business content- Box was founded on a simple, powerful idea: people should be able to access and share their content from anywhere. Since 2005, Box has helped more than 20 million individuals, small businesses and Fortune 500 companies do just that. We want to reinvent what businesses can do with their content through Box's content sharing platform, made for a new kind of worker, a new kind of workplace and a new kind of IT. www.box.com

  • Cisco Systems (13 yrs 5 mos)
    • Director, Borderless Network Architecture, Americas Partner Sales
      Oct 2012 - Aug 2013 · 11 mos

      Americas Partner Sales leader for Cisco Borderless Network Architecture (routing, switching, security, wireless, and WAN optimization portfolio). The Cisco Borderless Network Architecture is the technical architecture that allows organizations to connect anyone, anywhere, anytime, and on any device - securely, reliably, and seamlessly. It is the foundation for the Cisco Intelligent Network, providing optimization, scale, and security to collaboration and virtualization. Components of the architecture come together to build network systems that span organizations from network access to the cloud.

    • Director, AT&T Global Partner Sales
      Apr 2010 - Nov 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Responsible for overall strategy, relationship and Partner sales with AT&T. Led a global team of engineers, sales, partner development and marketing managers.

    • Director of Service Provider Channels
      Aug 2007 - May 2010 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Director of Partner Sales for Qwest, Sprint and Emerging Service Providers. Focused on developing sustainable advanced technology practices, launching new managed services and accelerating Partner sales. Developed and launched Cisco’s Service Provider Technology Partner channel- executed a channel strategy designed to expand Cisco’s reach and revenue “selling to” tier 2-4 service providers.