Location Fort Worth, Texas, United States Regions Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Southern US Gender Male Also Known As Jim Massa
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James began his career as a computer technologist teaching TCP/IP networking classes at Kennedy Space Center. After transitioning to sales of internet technologies, he was a key part of 3 successful investor exits, including the first Indo-American company to IPO on Nasdaq (Excelan). James joined then-startup Cisco Systems which grew from
$300M to $26B during his tenure. James's contributions included • growing Cisco's Southeast region sales 360% in 2 years, • turning around the Cisco Federal organization by growing sales 300% in 3 years, and • after CEO John Chambers approved James’s strategy to align Cisco resources to support DoD and National Security related initiatives, captured Cisco’s first $400M single purchase order sale. James went on to • establish Cisco’s Global Government Alliances which increased global public sector revenues from 5% to 24% of Cisco total revenues, • create the Global Space and Defense organization, and • then transitioned to Chief Strategist for the newly created Global Government Solutions business unit. James left Cisco Systems to form Loom Enterprises, a successful C-Suite consulting firm.
