Mr. Gil de Bernabé is a Managing Director in the Internet Business Solutions Group. He creates and leads global teams that provide solid advice on the strategic issues shaping the business of our customers and Cisco. Fernando joined Cisco in September 1999 as Group Manager to build the IBSG SP practice in EMEA. He was promoted to Director in 2001 and to Managing Director in October 2003. In August 2005 he took full responsibility for IBSG SP operations in European Markets and in July 2007 he was appointed to his current role. He has recently led Cisco global initiatives "Generating SP Growth", "SP2015: Future Scenarios for Telecoms", and "Connected Home: Consumer Broadband". Prior to Cisco, Mr. Gil de Bernabé was a partner in the Telecommunications, Information Technology, Media, and Electronics Practice of Arthur D. Little in Silicon Valley. Before that, he worked for two software startups in Barcelona, Spain, where he developed pioneering mash-ups of mapping, CAD, and database systems. Mr. Gil de Bernabé holds an MBA and MOT from the Haas School of Business and the College of Engineering at U.C. Berkeley (California, USA). He previously graduated (BEE, MS) from the School of Telecommunications Engineering at UPC in Spain.