{"id":107078,"date":"2026-04-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/?p=107078"},"modified":"2026-04-08T03:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:57:12","slug":"cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco appoints Bader Almadi as new vice president"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cisco named Bader Almadi (<\/strong>LinkedIn<\/a><\/strong>) as vice president of Cisco Saudi <\/strong>Arabia<\/strong>, according to a press release<\/a>. Almadi will oversee strategy and commercial operations, focusing on AI infrastructure and partnerships across key sectors, including financial services, sports, entertainment, and hospitality. He brings over 20 years of technology and sales leadership experience, having served as managing director for Google Cloud Saudi Arabia and holding senior roles at Dell Technologies, Oracle, and EMC. <\/p>\n

(** Tap or click the headline above to read this story with all of the links<\/strong> to our background and outside sources.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almadi will oversee strategy and commercial operations, focusing on AI infrastructure and partnerships<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2577],"tags":[10,42,2433],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-107078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moves","tag-enterpriseam-ksa","tag-moves","tag-technology","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"0abe62e6-7b95-4591-bd88-9b44294d5070","order":"7","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2026\/4\/356.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Cisco appoints Bader Almadi as new vice president","related_issue":[107068],"teaser":"Almadi will oversee strategy and commercial operations, focusing on AI infrastructure and partnerships"},"yoast_head":"\nCisco appoints Bader Almadi as new vice president - KSA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cisco appoints Bader Almadi as new vice president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Almadi will oversee strategy and commercial operations, focusing on AI infrastructure and partnerships\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"KSA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-04-08T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-04-08T03:57:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2026\/4\/356.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"enterpriseam admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"enterpriseam admin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"enterpriseam admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/#\/schema\/person\/ca597032db7e4db868359c123cec256d\"},\"headline\":\"Cisco appoints Bader Almadi as new vice president\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-04-08T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-08T03:57:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/\"},\"wordCount\":99,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2026\/4\/356.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1\",\"keywords\":[\"EnterpriseAM KSA\",\"MOVES\",\"Technology\"],\"articleSection\":[\"MOVES\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/\",\"name\":\"Cisco appoints Bader Almadi as new vice president - KSA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2026\/4\/356.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-04-08T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-08T03:57:12+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2026\/4\/356.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2026\/4\/356.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Cisco appoints Bader Almadi as new vice president\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/\",\"name\":\"KSA\",\"description\":\"The State of the Nation\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/#organization\",\"name\":\"KSA\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ent.news\/internal\/42482.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/ent.news\/internal\/42482.svg\",\"caption\":\"KSA\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/#\/schema\/person\/ca597032db7e4db868359c123cec256d\",\"name\":\"enterpriseam admin\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/enterpriseam.testing.projectsarea.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/author\/enterpriseam\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Cisco appoints Bader Almadi as new vice president - KSA","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Cisco appoints Bader Almadi as new vice president","og_description":"Almadi will oversee strategy and commercial operations, focusing on AI infrastructure and partnerships","og_url":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/","og_site_name":"KSA","article_published_time":"2026-04-08T00:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-04-08T03:57:12+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2026\/4\/356.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"enterpriseam admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"enterpriseam admin"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/"},"author":{"name":"enterpriseam admin","@id":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/#\/schema\/person\/ca597032db7e4db868359c123cec256d"},"headline":"Cisco appoints Bader Almadi as new vice president","datePublished":"2026-04-08T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2026-04-08T03:57:12+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/"},"wordCount":99,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2026\/4\/356.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","keywords":["EnterpriseAM KSA","MOVES","Technology"],"articleSection":["MOVES"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/","url":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/","name":"Cisco appoints Bader Almadi as new vice president - KSA","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2026\/4\/356.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","datePublished":"2026-04-08T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2026-04-08T03:57:12+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2026\/4\/356.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2026\/4\/356.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/04\/08\/cisco-appoints-bader-almadi-as-new-vice-president\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Cisco appoints Bader Almadi as new vice president"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/#website","url":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/","name":"KSA","description":"The State of the Nation","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/#organization","name":"KSA","url":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/internal\/42482.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/ent.news\/internal\/42482.svg","caption":"KSA"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/#\/schema\/person\/ca597032db7e4db868359c123cec256d","name":"enterpriseam admin","sameAs":["http:\/\/enterpriseam.testing.projectsarea.com"],"url":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/author\/enterpriseam\/"}]}},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2026\/4\/356.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2026\/4\/356.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"enterpriseam admin","author_link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/author\/enterpriseam\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2026\/4\/356.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107106,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107078\/revisions\/107106"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue\/107068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107078"},{"taxonomy":"brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand?post=107078"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=107078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}