4. Wendy Bahr, Vice President of U.S. and Canadian Channels

Wendy Bahr was promoted to lead the North American channel organization in January, and has made creating and promoting a Web 2.0 system for partners her top priority. She comes to the role from leading the company's U.S. Field Channels organization, where she was responsible for all aspects of partner interaction in the field. Bahr joined Cisco in 2000 as an operations director of network service providers. She joined the Federal Enterprise Organization in 2004 as the operations director of federal civilian agencies. Before joining Cisco, Bahr spent 10 years at Verizon.