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Emily L.R. Killam

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Senior Vice President, Global Sales Operations at Cisco
📍 United States

An enterprise technology executive with over 20 years of experience, Emily leads Global Sales Operations at Cisco. Her expertise lies in driving organizational transformation and business performance, with a career spanning leadership roles at Splunk, Amazon Web Services, and Raytheon. She is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and a Six Sigma Specialist.

She was a key executive at Splunk during its acquisition by Cisco, a deal she championed to drive the future of AI-powered security and observability.

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Experience
20 Years
Current Role
Senior Vice President, Global Sales Operations
Job Level
Leadership
Location
United States
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Global Sales Operations
Her current role at Cisco and a core competency throughout her career, focusing on driving scale and operational excellence in global markets.
Go-To-Market Models
She has a proven ability to design and lead go-to-market strategies, a key part of her senior leadership roles at Splunk and AWS.
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Career

Work history

4-2025
Senior Vice President, Global Sales Operations
Cisco
8-2021 - 4-2025
Senior Vice President, Go-To-Market Operations
Splunk
3-2020 - 8-2021
Director, Shared Services & Business Operations
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
10-2018 - 3-2020
Director, Sales Strategy, Operations & Enablement
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
4-2015 - 10-2018
Senior Manager, Sales Strategy, Operations & Enablement
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Education
1998 - 2002
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
The Pennsylvania State University, Smeal College of Business
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