Rachel Gray

Director Operations Sales
Service Provider & Media Sales

Rachel is a 18 year veteran at Cisco. She joined Cisco’s UK&I senior leadership team in 2014 to run the Service Provider and Media vertical sales team. Prior to this move, Rachel has held a variety of senior sales management positions in the Services Sales, Strategy & Planning and the Service Provider Partner organization.

Rachel is passionate about mentoring and sponsorship as well as driving inclusion and diversity at Cisco. She is known for challenging herself, her team and her peers to think differently about how we engage to drive incremental growth through innovation and differentiation. Rachel studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University where she achieved a BA Honours degree and a MA. Rachel lives in Godalming, Surrey, with her husband and three children - aged 13, 11 and 8. In her spare time (of which she has little), Rachel sings with a local choir, and is actively involved with running a local youth football club.

Articles

Cisco UKI
Go home on time – tackling work-life balance with technology

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Rachel Gray - October 3, 2016 - 0 Comments

In the 19 years I’ve been at Cisco the working world has changed beyond recognition.
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Cisco UKI
How Cisco’s flexible working culture is driving inclusion and employee engagement

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Rachel Gray - September 21, 2016 - 1 Comment

As I approach my 20th anniversary of working at Cisco, I have been reflecting on how the culture here contributes to work being something that I do (and enjoy!), rather
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Cisco UKI
Driving a more Inclusive Culture at Cisco UKI

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Rachel Gray - March 8, 2016 - 0 Comments

A year ago, I became the lead for Inclusion & Diversity for Cisco UK&I, alongside my day job. I’ve met amazing people, heard astonishing stories, and had the opportunity to
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Cisco UKI
More Speed Scottie!

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Rachel Gray - August 5, 2015 - 0 Comments

As I write this, I’m reminded of the 1993 Peter Steiner cartoon with the caption ‘On the internet nobody knows you’re a dog’.
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Cisco UKI
Young Business Talent shines at Young Enterprise Finals

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Rachel Gray - July 15, 2015 - 0 Comments

Earlier this month I had the honour of judging the YE UK Finals in London. Teams of students from schools across the UK travelled from as far as the Orkney
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Service Provider
The week when Cisco exposed it’s soft centre

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Rachel Gray - June 10, 2015 - 1 Comment

Last week, as the UK & Ireland lead for Inclusion & Diversity, I had the honour of sponsoring a week of activities to celebrate Cisco’s culture of inclusion. Under the
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Cisco UKI
Little Big Awards success in my Home Town

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Rachel Gray - April 21, 2015 - 0 Comments

This afternoon, I had the honour and pleasure to visit Broadwater School in Godalming to meet some Year 9 pupils who are innovators and award winners! The school had entered
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Cisco UKI
The Changing Face of Broadcasting

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Rachel Gray - September 26, 2014 - 0 Comments

Recently I had the opportunity to visit IBC (The International Broadcaster Convention). This event, described as “the premier annual event for professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of…
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