2009 Honorees

Carlos Dominguez
Senior Vice President
Cisco Systems

Carlos Dominguez is a Senior Vice President in Cisco’s Office of the Chairman of the Board and CEO. He advocates for the broad and creative use of technologies that are transforming how companies do business and creating distinct competitive advantages and new business models for those who adopt them. Dominguez says video, Web 2.0 applications and the increasing use of social networks, at home and at work, are at the heart of the collaboration revolution that is helping companies use the power of collective intelligence to produce revolutionary ideas for new products, better customer service and greater cost reductions.

Dominguez has been with Cisco for 16 years and has first-hand experience in how Cisco deploys technology in good, and bad, economic times to drive productivity and growth. He is a key speaker for Cisco and has been the featured keynote for a wide range of audiences, from CEOs and engineers to media executives.

You can view a sample of his recent presentations from the New Jersey Connected Broadband Summit 2008 and from Networkers Brasil, where he displayed a hologram and “teleported” Cisco CEO John Chambers from San Jose, California to the stage in Sao Paolo. He was also the featured keynote at Venture Atlanta 2008, the 2008 NCA Security & Technology Conference in Seattle and Televisa’s Executive Meeting in Mexico. He frequently uses humor and video in his talks and speaks to how he himself uses many “Generation Y” such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and video blogs. He also brings a global perspective from his frequent travels to Latin America.

In addition to public speaking, Dominguez advises Cisco customers about technology strategy and direction. He spends times with startup companies operating solely on the web as well as with established companies that are interested in using Internet innovations to do business differently. 

Dominguez spent most of his career at Cisco with service providers, including cable operators, mobile operators and content providers. He ran Worldwide Service Provider Operations for three years, helping to double Cisco’s service provider sales. Previously he headed U.S. Service Provider Sales and led Cisco’s Enterprise line of business in the northeastern United States.

Before joining Cisco, Dominguez held management positions at Timeplex, Inc. in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, and at New Jersey Bell/Bell Atlanticom in Newark, New Jersey.

He was recently named one of the top 50 Hispanic executives in the United States by Hispanic Engineering and Information Technology magazine. In 2008 he was elected to Cisco’s Mexico Board, which oversees new business in Mexico and the board of directors for the Cisco Foundation, which teams with nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations in making investments in technology and communications in underserved areas around the world. Dominguez also serves on the Board of Directors of Medidata, the YMCA of Greater New York (the largest YMCA in the world), and the New Jersey Institute of Technology Advisory Board.