Rowan Trollope

Rowan Trollope (born 1972) is an American business executive and technology entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Five9, a publicly traded cloud software company.[1][2]

Rowan Trollope
Born1972
Canada
OccupationCEO, Five9 inc.
Board member ofDisruptive Technologies
Spouse(s)Stephanie Trollope
Children3

Career

Trollope joined Five9 as CEO in May 2018.[3] Since joining Five9 has expanded its market cap to over $6B and accelerated revenue growth while expanding profit margins.

In 2019, Trollope joined Neat.no as an advisor and early investor alongside Eric Yuan, founder and CEO of Zoom and OJ Winge.[4]

Prior to Five9, Trollope was a senior vice president in Cisco's applications division.[5][6] Products produced in Trollope's teams include collaboration software, telepresence hardware devices and cloud infrastructure, including WebEx Teams (formerly Cisco Spark), Cisco TelePresence, Cisco UC Manager, Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise and Cisco WebEx.[7][8]

Prior to joining Cisco, Trollope was the group president of the SMB and the Symantec.cloud business unit where he led Symantec's sales, marketing and product development teams in the small and midsized business (SMB) segment as well as Symantec.cloud, the company's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business.[9]

Personal life

Trollope lives in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco with his wife and three children.[10]

References
  1. "Five9 Appoints Industry Veteran Rowan Trollope as New CEO". Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  2. "Five9, Inc. 8-K May. 1, 2018 4:14 PM". Seeking Alpha. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
  3. "Cisco loses top executive to cloud startup". Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  4. "Norwegian Video Trailblazers Create Neat to Change the Game with Zoom". Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  5. "Cisco's Rowan Trollope: Interview with New Collaboration Chief". Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  6. "Cisco reorg consolidates IoE, cloud ops". 10 September 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  7. "Cisco's Rowan Trollope Makes 'Spark' Fly". Insight for the Connected Enterprise. 2015-11-19. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
  8. Desk, FP Tech; Cio (2014-12-03). "Meet the Canadian Cisco called on to lead a big product makeover | Financial Post". Retrieved 2019-02-22.
  9. "About:Rowan Trollope". Techonomy.
  10. "Fresh Approach". C Magazine. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
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