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Cisco Appoints Ex-Microsoft MD To Run NZ |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Friday, 07 July 2006 |
Cisco has a new NZ chief, Geoff Lawrie. The new appointment
will allow former NZ country manager David Barker to returning to Cisco's Australian offices after three years in New Zealand.
As country manager for its New
Zealand operations Lawrie will report to Ross Fowler,
Cisco Systems Australia and New
Zealand managing director.
Lawrie has more than 25 years experience in the technology industry in New Zealand and
the Asia Pacific region.
Prior to joining Cisco, Lawrie worked as a consultant,
providing business development and capital market services to innovative,
growing companies in the New Zealand technology sector.
Previously he was managing director of GDC Communications, a
telecommunications and IT services company and prior to that MD for Microsoft's
New Zealand
operations.
Lawrie holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Management and
Marketing from Otago University, which he has supplemented with post
graduate study courses in management and finance at Macquarie
University in Sydney
and Columbia University
in New York.
He has been a board member of ITANZ (Information Technology
Association of New Zealand) and ITAG (the Information Technology Advisory Group
to the government), and actively supported the Knowledge Wave initiative,
education sector programs and a number of government-led initiatives which
focused on technology growth and innovation.
Welcoming Lawrie's appointment, Fowler said; "We are
entering a new era in networking where the network is becoming the platform for
how people collaborate, interact, become informed and are entertained.
"Geoff's
role will be to lead Cisco's New
Zealand customers, partners and employees
into this new era and I am delighted to have him on board."
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