Tesia Hostetler leads Cisco's Acquisition Integration Practice, owning the company's end-to-end M&A methodology, playbooks, tooling, and compliance frameworks. Starting in internal audit before transitioning to acquisition integration, Tesia has touched 40-50 deals over the past decade. She focuses on enabling integration leads to succeed by building standardized processes, clear roles and responsibilities, and proven frameworks—including the approach used for Cisco's transformational acquisitions like Splunk.
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Johanna Jaakola and Tesia Hostetler from Cisco reveal how integration-led M&A, early decision-making, and a 180-person integration community drive surgical execution.
Johanna Jaakola and Tesia Hostetler from Cisco reveal how integration-led diligence transforms deal outcomes by connecting strategy to execution from deal thesis through close.