William Gerhardt

GTM & Revenue Growth Leader | Solutions & Outcomes Transformation | Cloud & SP Infrastructure

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Ciscoex-Verizon Wirelessex-Syniverse

As a progressive Go To Market Leader in big tech, I have never been more excited than I am right now.

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The digitization of everything is creating new innovations across product, sales, marketing and strategy, giving us unprecedented access to customer insights, new buying centers, sales operations and my favorite…Solution Selling. I love working with companies that have access to broad portfolios, whether hardware, software or services, that can ultimately deliver on the promise of customer outcomes. The diverse teams I enjoy building cross organization boundaries, geographies, reporting lines, functional specialties and seniority to form a matrix that feeds on flexibility, speed and success. I’m grateful for the time I have spent during my career working in different leadership roles and find that the combination of engineering, product management, management/strategy consulting and sales has given me a unique business view that I hope to share with anyone who is interested. It's been a fascinating ride and something I'd certainly encourage others to consider.

Career TimelineNOW → PAST

GTM Index

  1. CISCOJOB
    1. AI GTM & Strategy Leader
      1Y 3M
    2. Global B2B SaaS GTM Leader
      3Y
    3. Head of Growth Acceleratio…
      1Y 5M
    4. Managing Dir of Strategy,…
      4Y 3M
    5. Dir of Eng and BD - IoT/IoE
      2Y 7M
    6. Dir - Internet Business So…
      9Y 5M
  2. SYNIVERSEJOB
    1. Group Product Mgr
      10Y 11M
  3. VERIZON WIRELESSJOB
    1. Account Mgr
      2Y 11M

Time in market 32Y 7MOpen 1Closed 7Stints 8

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  1. Job: Cisco — Director of Engineering and Business Development - IoT/IoE · 2013-06 – 2016-01
  2. Job: Cisco — Head of Growth Acceleration for Americas Service Provider · 2021-01 – 2022-06
  3. Job: Cisco — AI GTM & Strategy Leader · 2025-05 – present
  4. Job: Verizon Wireless — Account Manager · 1994 – 1996
  5. Job: Cisco — Director - Internet Business Solutions Group (Cisco Strategy Consulting) · 2004 – 2013-06
  6. Job: Cisco — Global B2B SaaS GTM Leader · 2022-06 – 2025-06
  7. Job: Syniverse — Group Product Manager · 1994 – 2004
  8. Job: Cisco — Managing Director of Strategy, Operations and Business Development · 2016-10 – 2021-01

Skills

Sales ManagementStrategic PartnershipsSales OperationsProduct ManagementConsultingThought LeadershipLead GenerationBusiness StrategySalesBusiness DevelopmentCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)StrategyAccount ManagementBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Team Leadership

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