Hugo Vliegen

Hugo Vliegen holds global responsibility for product management at Cisco, focusing on SD-WAN and SASE solutions. With over 25 years of experience in marketing and technology leadership roles, Hugo has played a pivotal role in shaping business strategies and defining product requirements for networking and security infrastructure. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with enterprise customers, service providers, and channel partners to deliver innovative solutions. Hugo's background includes extensive experience at several cloud and IoT startups such as Aryaka, Nebbiolo, and Infogear, the latter of which was acquired by Cisco. He is also the co-founder of several successful product lines in the networking and security sector, generating over $100 million in annual revenue. Hugo began his career in Manufacturing IT and Automation. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Twente and earned his Master's and Bachelor's degrees from the Eindhoven University of Technology