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Hall of Fame 2018

Patti Key

Patti Key joined Keysight Technologies via acquisition in 2017 and leads global sales for the Ixia Solutions Group. Prior to Keysight, Patti held leadership positions at companies including Ixia, Agilent Technologies, Hewlett-Packard, and BellSouth. She joined Ixia in 2008 as a Vice President and led sales in the East Region and then the Americas. She was promoted in 2016 to Senior Vice President for Global Sales and was instrumental in positioning the company for the 1.6 billion dollar acquisition.

She held a variety of engineering and leadership roles at Agilent, HP and BellSouth and during that time, she became a licensed professional engineer and was awarded two patents. Patti also currently serves as a Technical Advisory Board member for Uplevel Systems.

Patti holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University. She is Co-Founder of CC’s Heart Fund, a non-profit that helps provide financial assistance to families for pets that need life-extending cardiac care.

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