Carl DeGroote​, VP, U.S. Federal​, Cisco Systems

2020 PSC Board Member

Carl DeGroote Vice President, U.S. Federal

BIO

Carl De Groote, Vice President, U.S. Federal at Cisco Systems is a hands-on leader focused on advancing the mission of our Federal customers across the Defense, Civilian and National Security Operations. It’s the goal of Carl and his team to empower mission customers to achieve unprecedented outcomes as they deliver on their mission, while helping to revolutionize how our country protects and serves its citizens. He advocates for the user community, helping to implement innovative, thoughtful change in how government services are delivered. By solving complex problems with data-driven platforms and intuitive AI driven technology, he helps to transform the way our nation’s most critical networks deliver the connections and collaboration our government customers need to ensure successful execution of their missions.

As Vice President of U.S. Federal Carl leads the second largest market in the Americas and one that Cisco has supported for over 25 years. De Groote leads a team of over 400 professionals in sales, engineering, business development and partner relations. Previously, Carl lead’s led Cisco’s U.S. Defense Team focused on helping our military steadily migrate to a digital force to achieve supremacy across all domains –land, air, sea, cyberspace, and outer space. Carl and his teams focused on delivering innovation and platforms to bring skilled operators and intuitive network infrastructure together for greater mission effectiveness. Cisco’s diverse range of capabilities, along with an expertise in Defense that can only come from experience, furthers constant exploration and innovation for greater national security.

Through working with Cisco for 18 years in both the public and private sectors, Carl’s cultivated collaborative relationships with government agencies to positively impact mission critical activities, national defense capabilities in the physical and cyber domains, citizen services, government productivity, and local and national educational outcomes.

De Groote is a 25-year veteran of the IT industry and a fellow of the ACT-IAC Organization, a partnership between Government and the private sector to innovate and solve government’s challenges. De Groote is an Alumni of the University of Loyola, Baltimore with a BA degree in Business Administration, specialty in Marketing.