Requisite Professional Bio
As the Director of Strategy & Go To Market at CDW Digital Velocity Solutions, Casey Bleeker focuses on creating programs and solutions that increase market adoption of cloud native technologies, including hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud sales strategies and best practices. From helping vendors market their latest offerings to supporting ecosystem partners on the evolution of their product development practices, Casey helps end-customers ramp their adoption velocity of innovative architectures. Casey joined CDW in 2020 thru the IGNW acquisition, where he was the Director of Cloud Advocacy & Enablement.
Previously, Casey spent over 5 years at Cisco Systems. As a Sr. Business Development Manager, he managed the $150M Cisco Spark Innovation Fund, administering equity & non-equity grants, and working with enterprise customers on innovative ways to integrate collaboration workloads into business relevant workflows. He is perhaps best known for creating the SalesConnect Spark Bot, as well as helping to create Cortex, the AI-ML center of excellence at Cisco. Casey has also been in developer advocacy & direct field sales roles at Cisco.
Prior to joining Cisco, Casey had a decade of experience spanning network architect roles in the customer and partner communities, to consulting roles across many collaboration technologies, including technical marketing for Microsoft. In 2017, Casey received a certificate in Big Data & Social Analytics from MIT. He has a B.S. in Bioinformatics and is a contributor to the EMIRGE genetic analysis project, applying deep learning to genetic populations.