Saidah Grayson Dill is the Vice President and Deputy General Counsel responsible for Global Employment Law and a team of Employee Relations professionals at Cisco Systems, Inc. Cisco is an international company with 75,000 employees and operations in over 120 countries that designs and sells networking, voice, collaboration and communication technology services and solutions. At Cisco, she provides advice on a myriad of employment law and employee relations issues including acquisition integration, litigation, compliance, investigations and inclusion & diversity. In this role she is the lead legal support for Cisco People and Communities (HR) team and helps ensure that Cisco’s are not only legally sound but are in line with company’s culture.
Prior to joining Cisco, Ms. Dill worked for two international law firms, Skadden and Paul Hastings, litigating on behalf of and providing advice and counsel to employers in a variety of industries.
Ms. Dill received an A.B. in Public Policy with a concentration in Law and the Legal System from Stanford University and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She is the recipient of the San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal, San Francisco Business Times 2011 Best Corporate Counsel award in the “Rising Star” category.