Cisco APJC
Regional marketing and integrated campaigns
Led campaigns across Asia Pacific, Japan, and China for cybersecurity, enterprise networking, hybrid work, and full-stack observability.
Biography
Salim Sebkhi co-founded Aona AI and previously led its revenue, partnerships and go-to-market work. He no longer has an operational role at Aona. Bastien Cabirou is the current contact for sales and marketing.
Before Aona, Salim spent nearly a decade at Cisco in regional marketing and integrated campaigns across Asia Pacific, Japan and China.
Experience at a glance
How Salim turns cross-functional complexity into practical delivery outcomes.
Salim brings more than 15 years of go-to-market, marketing, product, and revenue leadership across SaaS, cybersecurity, enterprise networking, hybrid work, hardware, and global campaigns.
15+
years in IT and growth leadership
9+
years at Cisco across APJC and ANZ
14
countries covered in regional campaigns
GTM
strategy, demand, revenue, and partnerships
ANZ
Commercial and channel growth
Managed commercial and channel growth marketing across ANZ, aligning sales, marketing, partner motions, and demand generation.
Product
Ingram Micro and Brother France
Held product management, business development, pricing, and managed print leadership roles across hardware and services markets.
Previous experience includes
- Aona AI
- Cisco
- Ingram Micro
- Brother France
- Institut national de l'audiovisuel
Expertise
Topics Salim is asked to speak and advise on.
- Go-to-market strategy
- Enterprise AI adoption
- AI governance
- Cybersecurity marketing
- Revenue leadership
Perspective
How this experience connects to Aona.
"AI adoption will only scale when trust, compliance, and business value move together. That is the bridge Aona is building."
Book a demo
Talk through how Aona helps enterprise teams adopt AI with guardrails.
AI governance
How Aona turns policy, visibility, and controls into an operating model.
Compliance
Resources for mapping AI adoption to security, privacy, and compliance expectations.
Case studies
Examples and resources for enterprise teams evaluating responsible AI adoption.
Talk to Bastien about Aona.
Book a 30-minute walkthrough, or read more about the team and our thesis.