2014 Recipient

Bruce Klein is Senior Vice President of Cisco’s Worldwide Partner Organization, which is responsible for supporting Cisco’s global business of more than 60,000 partners, representing the company’s primary route to market and accounts for more than 80 percent of Cisco’s revenue. Klein joined Cisco in 2004 and held previous roles leading the Federal, U.S. Public Sector and and Global Public Sector organizations.

Prior to joining Cisco, Klein was vice president of federal at Hewlett-Packard, where he managed sales, services, support and marketing into the federal government. He has twice received the prestigious Federal Computer Week’s “Federal 100” award, an industry recognition for his contributions in information technology across the federal government market. He was also named the 2010 Executive of the Year by Government Computing News.

Klein serves on numerous industry boards and councils, including the United Service Organizations (USO), AFCEA International and the Northern Virginia Technology Council, the largest technology council in the nation.

Klein holds a bachelor of science degree in management information systems from George Mason University.