USC Marshall School of Business

Doug Webster is the Vice President of Global Marketing and Corporate Communications for Cisco Systems. In that capacity, he has go-to-market responsibilities for overall thought leadership, messaging, launch, content, and program development on the company’s service provider strategy and priorities, as well as oversight of the service provider routing and mobility solutions teams.

The highly regarded Cisco Visual Networking Index forecasts are developed under Doug’s guidance.

His team also works with a number of teams throughout Cisco on the delivery of the content through a wide range of vehicles including customer, press, analyst, investor, event, web, social media, and internal communications.

Before joining Cisco Systems, Doug was an initial employee and Director of Communications at WheelGroup Corporation, a network security startup acquired by Cisco in 1998.

Doug graduated from Yale University with a degree in economics, and has served four years as a decorated officer in the US Air Force and in an elected position on the Board of Directors of one of the largest credit unions in the United States.

He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, two sons and daughter.