Laercio Albuquerque serves as Vice President of Latin America at Cisco. During his stint as president for the company's Brazilian market, Albuquerque led various initiatives around digital transformation engaging the private sector and governments, as well as projects geared around building local technology skills through the company's Cisco Networking Academy. Albuquerque's 35-year career prior to Cisco included a number of leadership positions in Brazil and Latin America at CA Technologies, where he worked for two decades.