Agostino Santoni

Agostino Santoni is the Vice President of Cisco Southern Europe. He took the role in November 2020 and is responsible since for the Cisco business in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Israel, Greece, Cyprus and Malta. Agostino brings a wealth of experience from 25 years in the Italian IT industry, managing P&L operations across several technology markets.

Previously, Agostino covered the role of General Manager of Cisco Italy from the end of 2012 until March 2021. He joined Cisco from SAP, where he was Italy Managing Director from 2009 to 2012. He started his professional career in Compaq Computer where, following the merger with HP, he held roles of increasing responsibility for the Italian branch of HP and for the parent company up to the position of Vice President & Enterprise Sales Director of HP Italy. On top of his Cisco position, Agostino was also President of Assinform (the Italian Association for the Information Technology) from 2014 to 2017.

He currently also holds these positions:

• President of Confindustria Digitale (Federation of Associations of ICT companies)
• Member on the Board of Trustees of the Cisco Foundation
• Coordinator of the Technical Group for the Development of the Digital Offer of Confindustria (the main association representing manufacturing and service companies in Italy)
• Member of the Executive Committee of Fondazione Fiera Milano