Dave West

CEO

Singapore, Singapore, Singapore32 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 30 years in the ICT industry.
  • Led a team of 5,000+ experts at Cisco.
  • Passionate about people-first, trust-based culture.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in the ICT sector with a focus on enterprise solutions and digital transformation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business StrategyDigital Transformation

Other Skills

Innovation Management

About

I have over three decades of experience in the ICT industry and 25 years with Cisco. I am inspired every day by our talented teams and our company's focus on driving digitization for the betterment of businesses, governments, and societies at large. Currently, I am the Senior Vice President of Cisco’s Global Specialists organization, I lead a team of 5,000+ experts focused on driving growth and innovation across our most strategic portfolios—from Enterprise AI and Security to Networking, Cloud, and Collaboration, and Internet and Mass-Scale Infrastructure. We operate at the intersection of engineering, go-to-market, and trusted partnerships to deliver real outcomes for customers and partners around the world. Our work drives some of Cisco’s most strategic growth engines, including Enterprise AI, Security, and the Webscale/Hyperscale market. Prior to my current role, I served as President for Cisco Asia Pacific, Japan, and Greater China, where I’m responsible for Cisco APJC's strategy, accelerating business growth, and together with the team, delivering continuous innovation for our customers. I was President and General Manager for Cisco Japan and led Worldwide Sales for Enterprise Networks. Earlier, I held leadership roles spanning architecture, and technology strategy, including as CTO and Architectures leader for Enterprise Networks, Data Center, Security, and Collaboration in the Asia Pacific and Japan. Among these roles, I was responsible for capturing market transitions, delivering sustained competitive leadership, and driving growth across all technologies. I'm passionate about driving a people-first, trust-based culture, creating opportunities for employee growth, and building diverse, high-performing teams.

Experience

Cisco

Senior Vice President, Global Specialists, Cisco

Jul 2025Present · 8 mos

Optimeyes ai

Board of Advisors

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Diego, California, United States · Remote

  • OptimEyes.ai is a unique AI-powered, on-demand SaaS solution for cyber-security, data privacy and compliance risk modeling.

Cisco

9 roles

President, Asia Pacific, Japan, and China

Promoted

Jan 2021Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

President and General Manager, Cisco Japan G.K.

Promoted

Jul 2018Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Vice President, WW Sales, Enterprise Networks

Mar 2017Jul 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Lead the worldwide team for Enterprise Network (EN) Sales, a global organization that drives the sales, solutions, and engineering motions required to deliver innovation and transformation across Cisco’s core portfolio. I work closely with customers to understand the market transitions influencing their businesses. Within Cisco, I work cross-functionally to design and implement innovative go-to-market models for customers' multiyear digital transformations, delivering revenue and building strong teams with long-term tenures.

Vice President, Architectures & Chief Technology Officer, APJ

Promoted

May 2016May 2017 · 1 yr

  • Responsible for capturing market transitions, delivering sustained competitive leadership, and driving growth across Enterprise Networks, Data Center, Security, Collaboration and SP Routing architectures in the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) regions.

VP, Enterprise Networking; Chief Technology Officer

Mar 2015Apr 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

Managing Director, Enterprise Networking & Chief Technology Officer, APJ

Promoted

Mar 2013Mar 2015 · 2 yrs

Senior Director, Architectures and Systems Engineering

Jan 2008Aug 2012 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Director, Public Sector Solutions and Center of Excellence

Jan 2006Jan 2008 · 2 yrs

Chief Technology Officer/Systems Engineering Director/Senior Systems Engineering Manager

Jun 2000May 2013 · 12 yrs 11 mos

United states marine corps

Networking and Information Officer

Jun 1990May 2000 · 9 yrs 11 mos · United States

Business StrategyDigital TransformationInnovation Management

Education

Naval Postgraduate School

MS — Information Systems

Jan 1993Jan 1996

Naval Postgraduate School

Master’s of Science (MS) — Information Systems

Jan 1996Present

Virginia Military Institute

Bachelor of Arts (BA) — History

Jan 1986Jan 1990

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