Bill LePage

BIO

Bill is a senior business executive who has worked at several Fortune 500 business to business and business to consumer companies. Prior to his current role as the Senior Vice President of World Wide Sales Operations at Hitachi Vantara, he worked at Cisco Systems, the worlds largest networking company. Over a 20 year career at Cisco, he helped grow the company from $1Billion to $48 Billion in revenue, while the employee population grew from 3,000 to 75,000 employees. Bill’s career moved both horizontally and vertically. Bill is a results oriented executive and has led large global sales, marketing, sales operations and finance organizations. As a Sales leader, Bill grew his global sales organization more than 400% from $300 Million to $1.7 Billion in revenue over a four year period. The business model was completely transformed, with sales productivity doubled and the expense to bookings ratio cut in half. Bill also built Cisco’s U.S. field marketing organization from the ground up, which was responsible for marketing strategy and execution for the U.S. field sales force. The result was a rapid response, lead generation engine that produced vertical and horizontal marketing programs which helped generate over $500 Million in revenue over a three year period. As the Sales COO and Senior Vice President of Sales Operations, Bill was responsible for the support of Cisco’s 18,000 sales professionals carrying more than $47 Billion in sales quota. This organization included Inside sales, virtual pre-sales technical support, training and development, sales compensation planning and design, customer listening, CRM and analytics as well as systems, tools and process. Several of these organizations won industry awards or received recognition from Forbes Magazine, Forrester Research, Ad Age and the Institute for excellence in sales and business development. Bill has a B.A.in Business Management from Boston College.