Scott Puopolo Scott Puopolo is vice president of the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) Global Service Provider Practice. Scott brings to the position significant experience in strategy, operations, and finance. Prior to joining Cisco, Puopolo was president of Smooth Engine, Inc., a merchant banking firm in New York City, where he was responsible for defining and implementing the firm's strategy and overseeing its advisory activities for private equity and corporate clients in the converged communications industry. His projects included working with a management team on the roll-up of consumer systems integrators to enable the connected home, working with shareholders of a major U.S. wireless carrier subsidiary to provide value its WiMax business in key Midwestern markets, and advising a private equity firm on investing in a successful facilities-based CLEC challenged with converting to an IP infrastructure. With two of his former telecommunications clients, Puopolo founded Telecom Access Holdings, an aggregator of rural access. Puopolo spent nearly 15 years at Accenture, where he served as lead partner for the firm's North American Telecommunications Strategy practice. While there, he also managed personnel for the firm's Eastern United States and Canadian Communications, Media, and High Technology Strategy Group. Puopolo received his undergraduate degree cum laude from Harvard College, where he was a Harvard College and Charles J. Paine Scholar. He received his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in Strategic Management and Marketing. |