Board of Directors
Board Member
Bruce Klein
Vice President, U.S. Public Sector
Cisco
Bruce Klein is vice president of Cisco's U.S. Public Sector organization, which includes U.S. Federal, U.S. State and Local Governments, Education, and Publicly Funded Healthcare. The U.S. Public Sector organization, formed this year, leads the advancement of IP-based networking solutions to help customers transform the way government educates, provides service, and defends our nation.Mr. Klein led the U.S. Federal organization since he joined Cisco in 2004, and was responsible for building a vision, strategy and execution plan to further advance Cisco's relationship with customers, partners and suppliers that achieved aspirational results. Within Cisco, he created a successful team approach that established a "one team, one plan, one goal" strategy with extended teams.
Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Klein was vice president of federal at Hewlett-Packard (HP), where he managed sales, services, support and marketing into the federal government. As the leader of HP's federal business, he oversaw significant growth in the company's federal sales. He was responsible for reorganizing the federal sales operation to become more focused on customer satisfaction and teamed with resellers and systems integrators to grow HP's business. He also integrated HP's consulting and support services into a single organization to position HP as a total solutions provider to federal customers. He contributed to the development of account-specific marketing and sales planning, and developed solutions-based training for HP's sales team.
With a strong background serving government customers over several decades, Mr. Klein is a well-respected thought leader and best practices source within the government IT industry. He is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Federal Computer Week's Federal 100 Award, an industry recognition for his contributions in information technology across the federal government market.
Mr. Klein serves on numerous industry boards and councils, including the United Service Organizations (USO) by assisting them in their efforts to provide comfort and support to members of the military services around the world; AFCEA International helping them advance professional knowledge and relationships in the fields of communications, IT, intelligence, and global security; and the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), the largest technology council in the nation.
He holds a bachelor's degree in management information systems from George Mason University.
