Puopolo is Vice President of the Global Service Provider Practice, Cisco® Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG)—the company’s global consultancy. He and his team work with leading service providers (SPs) worldwide to identify and create opportunities to compete more effectively through the delivery of cloud computing services, helping SPs to reposition their brand and deliver network-centric services to their customers. Puopolo and his team skillfully orchestrate strategy development and operations planning to transform customers’ businesses and create value.
Prior to joining Cisco IBSG, Puopolo enjoyed a number of positions related to the service provider sector in merchant banking, telco, and media. Puopolo spent nearly 15 years at Accenture, where he served as the lead partner for the firm's North American Telecommunications Strategy Practice, and led the firm's Eastern U.S. and Canadian Communications, Media, and High Technology Strategy Group.
Puopolo graduated cum laude from Harvard, where he was a Harvard College and Charles J. Paine Scholar. He earned his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in strategic management and marketing. When he’s not making beautiful music with his service provider customers, Puopolo is likely to be found playing and recording in the Manhattan recording studio he built himself.
