Location Los Altos, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Mr. Tawakol has served as VP/GM in Cisco’s Webex business unit since 2019. In 2017 he founded and was CEO of Voicea, a company specializing in conversational intelligence, which was acquired by Cisco in 2019. Prior to Voicea, Mr. Tawakol was employed by Oracle as SVP/GM of Oracle’s Data Cloud division. In 2007, he founded BlueKai, a
leading data management platform for Fortune 100 marketers, and served as its CEO until BlueKai’s acquisition by Oracle in 2014. Previously, Mr. Tawakol served as GM of Medio Systems (acquired by Nokia) and the CEO of CoRelation a SaaS product recommendations service. He currently serves on the board of LiveRamp.













