Communications and networking expertise big Cisco has appointed Colin Seward as its new Chief Sustainability Officer.
Seward has been at Cisco for greater than 25 years, becoming a member of the corporate in 2000, and has served as a wide range of senior roles, together with as CIO for EMEA, and as International Lead for Cisco on Cisco, the corporate’s inside program by which it makes use of its personal merchandise to run, take a look at, and handle its world IT infrastructure and shares learnings with clients, in addition to IT Transformation Lead, the place he developed the IT Sustainability Framework to align with Cisco’s Internet Zero Technique. Most not too long ago, he has served as a Senior Director within the Chief Sustainability Workplace, overseeing the expertise and knowledge wanted to assist drive the technique and execution of Cisco’s sustainability initiatives, and supporting clients in addressing their sustainability and enterprise targets.
Seward succeeds Mary de Wysocki, who has served as Cisco’s first Chief Sustainability Officer since 2022, and has taken on a brand new position main Cisco Studying as Chief Studying & Future Readiness Officer.
In a put up asserting the brand new appointment, Seward mentioned:
“Sustainability is a vital a part of Cisco’s Goal to Energy an Inclusive Future for All, and it’s more and more linked to enterprise technique, operational execution, and buyer worth.
“On this position, I’ll lead Cisco’s world sustainability technique, with a give attention to serving to translate sustainability targets into measurable motion and enterprise worth for Cisco and our clients.”
