Payman Fazly

Technology executive with over 30 years of experience in translation of business strategy to phased roadmaps and execution plans with demonstrated ability to create procedural-based frameworks to drive and measure progress towards expected outcome of the business.

Payman spent twelve years of his career at Cisco Systems Information Technology (IT) and led the design and deployment of Cisco’s project management framework, called Project Lifecycle (PLC).

Prior to joining Cisco, Payman was in charge of consulting services organizations at Intersperse, start-up software funded by Kleiner Perkins that was acquired by Cisco Systems, and at Otelnet Software, and at Saba Software, where he led the hyper growth of consulting services and directly contributed to Saba’s successful IPO.

Payman was a senior manager at Accenture, and Director of IT at Pacific Bell before it was purchased by AT&T.

Payman received an Executive MBA from Golden Gate University, and a B.S in Computer Information Systems from California State University, East Bay. He has completed Stanford University’s advanced project management program and received Stanford Certified Program Manager (SCPM) and was a professor of MBA program at Golden Gate University.