#8 Susie Wee

Position: VP & CTEO

Company: Cisco Systems

Susie Wee is the Vice President and Chief Technology and Experience officer of Collaboration and Communication at Cisco Systems, the networking giant.

According to Wee, she enjoys the role of CTEO which reflects well her fervor to combine the user experience and technology and thus she manages a team of 90 user experience designers, researchers and technologists who work on collaboration products. C

Before coming to Cisco, she had 15 years of experience at Hewlett Packard where she had to supervise cloud strategies for personal computing products. She is also the founder of HP’s Experience Software Business.

Wee is not only a techie herself but a person with exceptional leadership and her commitment and enthusiasm towards her wok buys more bright talents in tech. The highlight is that she identifies the ‘fun’ in technology and effectively communicates, meanwhile explaining how we should approach the practical applications of technology with a new thought. She is also committed towards the development of her fellow women. 

She has given productive career tips for the beginners that include: 1) Be synonymous with useful innovations, 2) Be expressive while presenting  your ideas and projects, 3) Update and define your portfolio, 4) Be strategic as well as optimistic, 5) Be prepared for unsolicited competition, avoid them and compete with only yourself, 6) Ignore people who don’t like you without causing an enmity, 7) Improve interpersonal skills to understand yourself and others and their by improve yourself, 8) have a team spirit, 9) Don’t compromise your personality, 10) Align your work with your passions and strengths and 11) Maintain good health.

Wee has received many awards such as the WITI Hall of Fame Award (2010), Computer World’s Top 40 Innovators under 40 Award (2007), the INCITs Technical Excellence Award (2007)and Technology Review’s Top 100 Young Innovators Award (2002). She also has over 50 international publications, authors a personal blog, ‘Reflections’ and has acquired over 40 granted patents.