Jaime Valles joins Cisco as new head, APJC

Cisco has announced the appointment of Jaime Valles as the new head of Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China (APJC) region.
Jaime is currently the senior vice president for Cisco’s Latin America theater,he will be taking over from Edzard with effect of August 1, 2012 and will be based in Singapore.

Jaime will have the support of the world-class Cisco leadership team across the region, and will partner closely with Owen Chan, who will continue to lead our business in Greater China.

Since Jaime joined Cisco back in 2007, he has proven himself to be an outstanding leader with a successful track record of driving growth in emerging markets. Named one of the Top 50 Technology Executives in Latin America by the Hispanic IT Executive Council in 2011, Jaime has successfully led Cisco’s operations in Latin America, making it one of our highest growth regions. He brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in the IT industry, having previously served in senior leadership positions at Sun Microsystems and IBM.

Latin America continues to be an important growth driver in the Americas sales region. Accelerating our growth in emerging countries is one of the company’s top priorities for FY13 and we will soon be announcing a new leader for the LatAm theater.