Gerri Elliott, EVP and Chief Sales Officer

Gerri Elliott

Gerri Elliott is responsible for driving the operational and strategic elements of Juniper's field execution capabilities globally. Prior to her current role, Gerri was Executive Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Juniper. Teams under her leadership were responsible for all global major alliances, system integrators and outsourcers, hardware and software OEMs, service provider alliances and technology alliances for the company.

Gerri joined Juniper Networks from Microsoft, where she was Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector Organization, leading a team of more than 2,000 sales and marketing professionals serving government, education and healthcare customers in more than 100 countries. She was also co-head of the company's North American subsidiary where she developed and implemented a global strategy to establish Microsoft's first industry vertical sectors, including telecommunication, financial services, public sector, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, professional services and media and entertainment.

Prior to Microsoft, Gerri spent 22 years at IBM, where she held several senior executive positions in the U.S. and internationally. She served as Vice President, Distribution Sector, Asia Pacific, based out of Tokyo for two years, and subsequently was promoted to a larger role as Vice President, Distribution Sector, Americas. In that capacity, she led the team responsible for IBM's largest customers in the retail, wholesale and consumer goods, travel, and transportation industries across North and South America. During her tenure at IBM, Gerri held executive and management positions in strategy development, services and consulting, product management and sales field and headquarters leadership.

Gerri holds a bachelor's degree in international politics from New York University. She participated in the Center for Executive Women Senior Leadership Program at the Kellogg School of Management and now serves on the Center's advisory board.