AHEAD Named Cisco Marketing Partner of the Year for the Americas

Award recognizes joint marketing programs that help Cisco sellers and customers engage around secure AI, AI-ready infrastructure and security

CISCO PARTNER SUMMIT 2026 Vancouver, British Columbia - Oct. 28, 2026 - AHEAD, a global provider of AI-driven cloud, data, infrastructure, and security platforms, today announced it has been named Marketing Partner of the Year for Americas Geo at Cisco Partner Summit 2026. Cisco Partner Awards recognize top-performing partners demonstrating service excellence and innovation in delivering solutions that help customers succeed.

"I'm excited to congratulate AHEAD for being named Cisco's 2026 Americas Marketing Partner of the Year," said Rhonda Henley, VP of Americas Partner Sales, Cisco. "AHEAD demonstrates a commitment to delivering customer value, driving growth and strengthening our partnership across the Americas-making this recognition well deserved."

The recognition reflects AHEAD's marketing leadership, innovation and best practices that help connect Cisco's portfolio with client needs.

Through its marketing collaboration with Cisco, AHEAD develops repeatable, outcome-focused programs that bring Cisco networking, security and AI technologies together with AHEAD's strategy, engineering and operational expertise. These programs connect the combined capabilities to client needs across secure AI-ready infrastructure, supporting resilient environments and faster time-to-value.

"Partner marketing is where strategy becomes a plan teams can put into practice," said Alyssa Hall, senior vice president of marketing at AHEAD. "With Cisco, we align around priority solution plays, connect the right technical experts and give our teams a consistent story to bring to clients."

Cisco Partner Summit Geo awards reflect the leading partners within specific technology markets across a geographical region. Award recipients are selected by a committee of executives representing Cisco's Global and Regional Partner Sales Organizations.