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Johanna Jaakola
Johanna Jaakola is an Integration Lead on Cisco's Corporate Development Integration Team with 10 years at Cisco across finance leadership and acquisition integration roles. A former management consultant and senior finance leader for AppDynamics (a Cisco acquisition), Johanna brings deep operational expertise to deal execution. She partners with deal leads from the earliest phases to shape integration strategy, coordinate cross-functional diligence, and drive execution through full integration.
Tesia Hostetler
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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