Colin Seward

Colin Seward

Colin Seward is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Cisco, where he leads the company’s global sustainability strategy. He previously served as Cisco’s Sustainability Technology and Data Lead, leading the development of the Cisco Sustainability Data Foundation, an enterprise data platform for sustainability analysis and decision-making. Earlier, he was Chief Information Officer for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Cisco, and Global Lead for “Cisco on Cisco”, Cisco’s programme for sharing lessons from its internal IT with customers and partners. In that role he created the IT Sustainability Framework. Before joining Cisco, he worked at Accenture. Colin holds a degree and a doctorate from the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of faculty at the Cavendish Laboratory.

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