Scott Puopolo Scott Puopolo is vice president of the global service provider practice in the Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). Scott brings significant strategy, operations, and financial experience in the Communications, Media and High Technology industries. Prior to joining Cisco, Puopolo was president of Smooth Engine, Inc., a merchant banking firm located 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 many aspects of 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 subsidiary of a major U.S. wireless carrier to value it's WiMax business in key Midwestern markets, and advising a private equity firm on investment in a successful facilities-based CLEC challenged with converting to an IP infrastructure. With two of his former telecommunications clients, Scott founded Telecom Access Holdings, which aggregated rural access in key markets. Puopolo spent nearly fifteen years at Accenture, where he served as the lead Partner for the firm's North American Telecommunications Strategy practice, and where he led the personnel for the firm's Eastern U.S. 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. |