Halvor Garaas, a seasoned Global Marketing Manager with over 10 years of experience in the IT/Telecom industry, has a distinguished background in leading and managing teams towards achieving groundbreaking marketing transformations that drive business growth and efficiency. Currently serving at Cisco, Halvor leads a team of data scientists, data engineers, business analysts, and marketing professionals, with a strategic focus on intelligent decision automation across commercial business units, and a developed use case roadmap to bring solutions to the forefront.

Halvor is a self-starter with a passion for people management and cross-functional collaboration. He has a proven record of launching projects from ideation to full-scale implementation, and his proficiency in communicating technical concepts to business stakeholders has won him accolades from internal and external audiences.

Before joining Cisco, Halvor held different management positions, including Inside Sales & Online Manager, Northern and Central Europe at TANDBERG, and Analytics, Reporting & Dashboard Management Lead/ Digital Transformation & Analytics EMEAR at Cisco, amongst others. His experience in handling demand generation, customer marketing engagement, and program operations has primed him to lead teams on the cutting edge of marketing transformation.