Lui Fogolini

CRO, Tech Enthusiast, Advisor and Former Cisco VP

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

About

Dynamic Global Executive with over three decades of leadership experience across diverse sectors including Enterprise, Commercial, Public Sector, Service Providers and Partner organizations. Leading business units with $7B in recurring revenue through a Customer Experience Model for full life cycle management of product/software across the Americas and the Globe. A proven global leader often brought in to provide vision and strategy for new product launches or to restructure underperforming business units and turn them into profitable organizations.

Experience

  • Head of Canada at Cloudflare
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Consultant/Advisor at a
    Jun 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 1 mo

    Provided strategic consulting to several tech startups, helping them scale operations and secure funding. Volunteered as a mentor for aspiring tech entrepreneurs, sharing industry insights and leadership best practices

  • Cisco (7 yrs 3 mos)
    • Vice President , Americas Service Sales
      Aug 2015 - Jun 2019 · 3 yrs 11 mos

      Lui Fogolini is (former) Vice President of Americas Services Sales. In this role, Lui led the region’s services sales, and services direct and channels go to market strategy and planning across the Global Enterprise, Commercial, Public Sector, Canada, and LATAM theaters. He managed a team that spans across 46 countries. Lui’s primary objective was to manage and drive the $7B of recurring service revenue which represents more than half of the Cisco’s worldwide services business. Since 1993, Lui has held various region and global leadership roles within Cisco. Just prior to his current role, Lui was Vice President of the US Public Sector service sales team who earned global recognition as the best performing operating group. Previous roles include leading services for Cisco’s Worldwide Partner, Global and US Service Provider businesses. It is during this time these teams secured some of the largest contracts in Cisco history. Lui also has held product leadership roles at Cisco having led the Canada Service Provider, and Canada Finance sales segments, as well as the America’s Optical Transport Operations teams.

    • VP US Public Sector Services Sales
      Aug 2013 - Jul 2015 · 2 yrs

    • VP, WW Service Partner Organization & WW SP Services
      Apr 2012 - Jul 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Cisco (8 yrs 1 mo)
    • VP WW Service Provider services
      2010 - 2012 · 2 yrs

    • VP US Service Provider
      2004 - 2012 · 8 yrs