Simon Young is the general manager for the Internet of Things (IoT) focusing on the energy and transportation market at Cisco, and leading the Australian and New Zealand teams. Mr Young has been with Cisco since April 2004, initially as a systems engineer before becoming strategic product sales specialist of IoT in July 2013 and general manager in July 2016. Prior to that, he spent 9 years with various companies as a network engineer and consultant. Mr Young graduated from La Trobe University with a Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering (with Honours).