Rob Rosa is responsible for Extreme Network’s Global Service Sales, which includes new and renewal opportunities for ExtremeWorks / PartnerWorks, Premier Services, and Professional services. He will also focus on growing the new service offerings under Extreme’s Managed Service platform (Monitoring Plus and Response Plus) and continue to develop new consumption opportunities (CPEaaS and Enterprise License Agreements). He is looking to expand Extreme’s service footprint with the assistance of the Extreme’s partner network.
Prior to Extreme Networks, Rob was the leader of Cisco’s U.S. Public Sector Services Partners as well as the U.S. Services Field Partner Organization. In this role Rob was responsible for the strategies related to sales, marketing, partner enablement, partner profitability, and promoting services growth for over $3B+ in Cisco Service revenue through channel partners across the U.S.
Specifically, Rob leads the Services Channels team in conjunction with Service Sales, and the Partners to develop a comprehensive Services strategy that supports the end customer’s mission or strategy while developing sustainable business models for the partners. This entails driving new program adoption, increased focus on service revenue opportunities, and overall partner enablement to assist in growing the overall business of the partner.
Rob spent 16+ years at Cisco, in that time he held various finance, sales operations positions in various verticals supporting the sales organization.
Rob holds his undergraduate Accounting degree and his MBA in Accounting Information Systems from Suffolk University – Sawyer School of Management. In his spare time, he enjoys taking classes at the Harvard Business School and volunteering as the Treasurer of his Local Youth Football and Cheerleading organization with 400+ members and 100+ volunteers.