Tim Stone

Speaking Sessions: Business transformation: the suppliers panel Extending Unified Communications to the Mobile Worker

Company: Cisco
Job title: Senior Marketing Manager, Unified Communications Europe

Tim heads Cisco’s Unified Communications (UC) marketing team for Europe and in this role, he is responsible for the business planning of Cisco’s European UC strategy, directing the marketing campaigns, and working closely with the media and industry analyst communities.

He joined Cisco in July 1999 with the aim of driving the company to be the number one in the convergence area, transforming the 100 year old telecommunications market into the converged communications market we see today. Tim has lead the development and execution of go-to-market strategies for a variety of converged communications solutions and recently launched Cisco’s Unified Communications offering in EMEA.

Tim has over 24 years experience in the industry and has held a number of marketing management positions focusing on PBX and call centres. Topics of particular interest include convergence, the business value of converged applications, mobility, collaboration, telepresence, and contact centre technology.

Tim worked at Nortel from 1989 – 1991 where he was responsible for call centre deployment and the introduction of new products. A further post at SDX Business Systems, from 1991 until 1998, saw Tim help develop the company into the UK’s number one supplier of call centre systems in the UK. Previously, he also held posts at Lucent Technologies and STC.

Tim is a regular speaker at industry and business events, which include World Telecommunications Congress, VON, CommsVision and partner events for the likes of Accenture, as well as higher education events, showing students how the future technologies they’re working on in labs can be applied to businesses