Eric Wenger 90′
Senior Director, CISCO
Eric Wenger is Senior Director for Cyber and Emerging Tech Policy at Cisco—leading the
company’s global engagements on cyber and emerging technologies. Prior to Cisco, Eric
was Cybersecurity Policy Counsel for Microsoft. Eric previously held roles as an attorney
in criminal and civil, federal, and state law enforcement. He served as Trial Attorney in
the U.S. Department of Justice’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section and
as Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia’s Computer
Hacking & Intellectual Property Unit. Eric served as an Attorney in the U.S. Federal Trade
Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection and an Attorney Advisor to then
Commissioner Thomas B. Leary. He was also an Assistant Attorney General in New York
State, where he started the first statewide law enforcement unit in the U.S. focused on e-commerce. Eric earned his undergraduate degree at Cornell University and then
graduated with Honors from George Washington University Law School.