Full Name
Bill Rowan
Job Title
VP, Sales
Company
Cisco
Speaker Bio
Bill Rowan is the Vice President of Public Sector at Splunk. His primary focus is on the sales and support of the Public Sector customers across the US Federal, State/Local, and Education marketplace in the United States. With over 30 years of experience, he leads a team of more than 400 sales, engineering, advisory, and implementation services professionals who help our customer with a unified security and observability platform. This platform is used by every cabinet level agency and most states, cities, and educational institutions.
Prior to joining Splunk, Bill served as the Vice President Federal Sales for VMware’s GEH organization and Vice President of Sales for VMware’s US Department of Defense and Intelligence Community teams. He also held executive leadership roles at EMC, Storage Technology Corporation, MicroStrategy, and IBM.
Bill has served as speaker at various government industry forums and panels, crystallizing complicated technological concepts in accessible, concrete terms. In 2015 Bill received the FedScoop Golden Gov Federal Executive of the Year award which honors the top leaders in the federal IT community. He is a four-time winner of Executive Mosaic’s Wash 100 – a group of influential leaders in the government contracting arena. In 2017 and 2025, Bill was honored with the FCW Federal 100 award, that acknowledges the very best IT professionals working in or for the federal sector. In addition, Bill has served on the Board of Directors of AFCEA and the Advance Digital Institute (ADI).
Bill has earned his MBA from Averett University and a BS in finance from Fairfield University.
Prior to joining Splunk, Bill served as the Vice President Federal Sales for VMware’s GEH organization and Vice President of Sales for VMware’s US Department of Defense and Intelligence Community teams. He also held executive leadership roles at EMC, Storage Technology Corporation, MicroStrategy, and IBM.
Bill has served as speaker at various government industry forums and panels, crystallizing complicated technological concepts in accessible, concrete terms. In 2015 Bill received the FedScoop Golden Gov Federal Executive of the Year award which honors the top leaders in the federal IT community. He is a four-time winner of Executive Mosaic’s Wash 100 – a group of influential leaders in the government contracting arena. In 2017 and 2025, Bill was honored with the FCW Federal 100 award, that acknowledges the very best IT professionals working in or for the federal sector. In addition, Bill has served on the Board of Directors of AFCEA and the Advance Digital Institute (ADI).
Bill has earned his MBA from Averett University and a BS in finance from Fairfield University.
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