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Rumor that Cisco SVP and top collaboration executive, Barry O'Sullivan, will be leaving soon

It appears Odd Johnny Winge will be replacing O'Sullivan, after all, you can't have 2 Cisco Collaboration Technology Group SVP/General Managers, can you? I mean, Cisco's Mount Rushmore is currently showing 2 Cisco Collaboration Technology Group SVP/General Managers!

Mon, 6/25/12 - 7:49pm View comments

Update 6/26/12:

CRN's Chad Berndtson has confirmed that the rumor is true (O'Sullivan will be leaving his role to become an "adviser" to Cisco):

"Not mentioned in the Chambers blog post is a fourth move: Barry O'Sullivan, senior vice president and general manager, Collaboration Technology Group, will be leaving the role.

"A Cisco spokesperson confirmed the move to CRN but said O'Sullivan is not leaving Cisco and will instead act as an adviser to Marthin De Beer, senior vice president, video and collaboration group, and to O.J. Winge, who is succeeding O'Sullivan. Winge, who joined Cisco through its 2010 acquisition of Tandberg, was most recently senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's collaboration endpoints technology group, the company's largest collaboration business."

Barry O'Sullivan - Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Collaboration Technology Group, is rumored to be leaving soon.

Cisco's Collaboration Technology Group develops collaboration solutions for business. O'Sullivan led a global team responsible for identifying key market transitions in collaboration and managing future growth, expansion, and continued innovation.

His group's portfolio included collaboration software, devices, infrastructure and services that enable video collaboration, unified communications, customer contact centers, conferencing, mobility, and desktop virtualization. This includes such recognizable solutions as Cisco TelePresence, Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco WebEx, the Cisco Cius tablet, and the Cisco Quad enterprise collaboration platform ( i.e. now called Cisco WebEx Social).

Previously at Cisco, O'Sullivan led the IP Communications business unit during its growth from number six to the number one market share position worldwide. He also ran the Customer Contact business unit. O'Sullivan joined Cisco in 2002.

Before joining Cisco, O'Sullivan spent 18 years at Nortel Networks as Vice President and General Manager of the company's contact center business and as Vice President of Enterprise Voice for Nortel Networks Europe.

As a technology evangelist, he spoke to audiences worldwide about how collaboration was changing the way people work. O'Sullivan is a founding member of the Irish Technology Leadership Group and serves on the board of Cope, an Irish charitable organization focused on reducing isolation and homelessness.

He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in computer science from the National University of Ireland, as well as a master's degree in business administration from Santa Clara University, California.

Follow Barry O'Sullivan on Twitter @barry0s and view his LinkedIn Profile.

Email O'Sullivan at: barryosullivan@itlg.org

It appears Odd Johnny Winge will be replacing O'Sullivan, after all, you can't have 2 Cisco Collaboration Technology Group SVP/General Managers, can you?

I mean, Cisco's Mount Rushmore is currently showing 2 Cisco Collaboration Technology Group SVP/General Managers!

Meanwhile earlier this month, Cisco's Collaboration Technology Group CTO Hakon Dahle left Cisco and is now an independent consultant. Dahle had spent 18-years at Tandberg and was its Chief Technology Officer (CTO) before its acquisition by Cisco on April 19, 2010.

Finally this month, Keith Goodwin - Senior Vice President of Cisco's Worldwide Partner Organization also left Cisco (his replacement was Bruce Klein).

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