Mr. Francis Choo serves as the Vice President and Chief Country Executive of Ingram Micro ASEAN & Hong Kong, and is responsible for the profit and loss of all countries in ASEAN and Hong Kong.
With more than 30 years of vast experiences in logistic and IT industries, Francis manages various portfolios and entities in Singapore and across the ASEAN countries. Prior to joining Ingram Micro in 1988, Francis began his IT career with IBM, followed by Dow Jones Telerate as its Country Manager and later, Group Deputy General Manager of Thakral Brothers. Francis holds a First Class Honors in Bachelor of Science of Business Studies, a Master’s degree in Business Administration and a post-graduate Diploma in Materials Management.
Francis also holds a degree in Master of Science, Education Management and a Master’s degree in Art Histories.
Mike Zilis serves as Ingram Micro Inc. Executive Vice President and Group President of Asia Pacific. In this role he’s responsible for driving the strategy and execution of Ingram Micro’s operations in the Asia Pacific market. He was named to this position in August 2016 and is based in Irvine, Calif. Since the beginning of 2018, Mike also oversees Ingram Micro’s “Internet of Things” global business and go-to-market strategy.
Prior to this role, Mike served as EVP and group president from July 2015 through July 2016, where he oversaw Ingram Micro’s US mobility business as well as Ingram Micro’s full operations in Latin American, Eastern European, ASEAN and Hong Kong markets. Mike served as EVP and president of Ingram Micro’s Latin America Technology Solutions business from January 2014 through June 2015, where he resided over all aspects of Ingram Micro’s core distribution business across the Latin American markets.
Before this, Mike was executive vice president of Asia Pacific, since August 2012. In this role, Mike was accountable for the region’s operations while also leading special regional projects, including the company’s recovery program in Australia and assisting with the integration of the company’s Middle East acquisition of Aptec.
Mike joined Ingram Micro in 2006 as senior vice president and corporate controller. In this capacity, he was accountable for the company’s financial planning and analysis, external and internal financial reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance efforts, long-term strategic planning, debt and finance structuring, financial due diligence and merger and acquisition work.
Prior to joining Ingram Micro, Mike was vice president and corporate controller for Avnet, Inc. for three years, where he was instrumental in leading the company’s cost-saving initiatives and efforts to streamline and add efficiency to ongoing processes. Mike began his career with 10 years in the commercial audit practice of Arthur Andersen LLP. He received his bachelor’s of science degree from Boston College.
Renée Bergeron serves as senior vice president, global cloud, Ingram Micro. She leads the global cloud go-to-market organization and has responsibility for the division’s organisational management, as well as its strategic direction, sales growth, marketing and business development activities. With more than 25 years of business unit leadership experience, Bergeron is a driving force behind identifying and cultivating new opportunities in cloud computing for Ingram Micro.
Bergeron joined Ingram Micro in September 2010. Prior to joining Ingram Micro, she led the $300 million IT Services Solutions business at Fujitsu America. At Fujitsu America, Bergeron oversaw the development of innovative solutions; most notably the company’s managed security, data center virtualisation and cloud computing offerings. Before Fujitsu, she led information technology divisions at media and banking companies, was a CIO at a financial institution, and was a director at a prominent international technology consulting firm.
Bergeron holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Sherbrooke University in Sherbrooke, Canada, and a master’s degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She is based at Ingram Micro’s headquarters in Irvine, California.
Uma Thana Balasingam is Vice President & Channel Chief, Asia Pacific & Japan at VMware. She’s responsible for developing and executing overall VMware channel strategy and programs for VMware’s ecosystem of solution providers, distributors, OEMs and telecommunications partners.
Uma was previously Vice President of Channels & Sales, Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) for Riverbed, where she was responsible for defining the region’s go-to-market strategies and played an active role in shaping the company’s growth strategy in the region. She was recognised in May 2018 in CRN’s The Most Powerful Women of the Channel global list.
Uma has 18+ years’ experience in business and strategic channels development in the APJ region. Prior to joining Riverbed, she served approximately 8 years at EMC in various senior leadership roles that included new product sales, alliances, acquisitions, channels sales, strategy & planning. She previously held roles in management at Brocade and field sales at IBM, starting her career as a systems engineer.
Uma is also the co-founder of Lean In Singapore and the founder of Lean In Women in Technology Asia & Women In Technology Singapore which has >1000 members today. LeanIn.Org was founded by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to empower women to achieve their ambitions. Lean In Singapore, founded in 2016, is a community of over 3000 women & men that comes together to be inspired, empowered and educated with a focus on driving gender diversity in the workplace.
Uma has a Bachelor of Computer Science and Management Information Systems from University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur.
In an industry where complexity stands between businesses and better outcomes, Rich Steeves is driving the transformation of VMware’s partner programs by harnessing power of simplicity.
As the chief architect of VMware Partner Connect, Rich has reimagined the way that VMware does business with and for our partners. Rich is a sought-after industry thought leader and speaker on partner strategy, channel ecosystems and partner program transformation. Rich has helped develop and lead some of the industries most respected partner programs – from Cisco, to EMC and Dell Technologies.
Rich lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY with his wife Carrie and 10 year-old son Maxwell. When he’s not coaching his son’s Little League Baseball team, he can be found travelling the world or pursuing his interests in amateur astronomy and astrophotography.
Dr. Eng Lim Goh joined SGI in 1989, becoming a chief engineer in 1998 and then chief technology officer in 2000. After acquisition, HPE appointed him vice president and chief technology officer for high performance computing and artificial intelligence. He oversees programs to develop the next generation computer architecture. His current research interest is in the progression from analytics, inductive machine learning, deductive reasoning and artificial specific to general intelligence. He continues his studies in human perception for user interfaces and virtual and augmented reality. In collaboration with NASA he is principal investigator of a year-long experiment, aboard the International Space Station, to operate high performance computers for long duration space travel - this won both the 2017 HPCwire Top Supercomputing Achievement and Hyperion Research Innovation Awards.
A Singapore Visionary Award recipient, Dr. Goh is a Scientific Advisory Board member of the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office. In 2005, InfoWorld named Dr. Goh one of the World’s 25 Most Influential CTOs. He was included twice in the HPCwire list of “People to Watch” 2005 and 2015. In 2007, he was named "Champions 2.0" of the industry by BioIT World magazine, and received the HPC Community Recognition Award from HPCwire. Dr. Goh is a frequent industry speaker on innovations and their applications. His work for Stephen Hawking included an invitation, on his 70th birthday symposium, to introduce the work of the 2011 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, Professor Saul Perlmutter.
Before joining SGI, he worked for Intergraph Systems, Schlumberger Wireline and Shell Research. A Shell Cambridge University Scholar, Dr. Goh completed his PhD research and dissertation on parallel architectures and computer graphics, and holds a first-class honors degree in mechanical engineering from Birmingham University in the U.K. He has been granted six U.S. patents, with three others pending.
Matt leads Dell Technologies’ team of Presales people across Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). This team drives IT, Cloud and Digital Transformation for all industries and sectors in the region. As part of his role, Matt works closely with senior executives from strategic customers, helping to set their strategy and transformation journey.
Based in Melbourne, Matt provides thought leadership in the areas of cloud, software development & DevOps, IT strategy and leveraging data to drive business innovation. He has over 20 years experience in IT, having held various Leadership, Technology and Architecture roles within leading technology organisations.
Matt holds a BSc in Software Development and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management. He is an author of a book on Hybrid Cloud and has articles featured in CIO magazine, ZDNET and CMO magazine. He is a regular speaker at various industry events including The CIO Edge, Cisco Live and vForum. Follow Matt on twitter @mattzwol and on the blog “BigDataDownUnder”.
Benny Ketelslegers is a threat researcher with Cisco Talos. He has spent the past 15 years protecting environments across a number of different industries including electronics, manufacturing, financial services, etc. He currently spends his days hunting malware and analysing various threats as they emerge and continue to evolve. In his time with Talos he has researched targeted attacks and other threats being distributed using various attack vectors.
Benny Ketelslegers is a threat researcher with Cisco Talos. He has spent the past 15 years protecting environments across a number of different industries including electronics, manufacturing, financial services, etc. He currently spends his days hunting malware and analysing various threats as they emerge and continue to evolve. In his time with Talos he has researched targeted attacks and other threats being distributed using various attack vectors.
Leveraging technology to drive positive impact for businesses and people’s lives is what inspires Shirley. In her leadership roles at Microsoft, and throughout her 30+ year career in the industry, she has prioritised harnessing the power of technology to drive meaningful enterprise results. She does this by building and leading top performing, diverse and widely distributed sales teams who work with partners and customers to deliver intelligent systems and solutions. This is where Shirley thrives and in doing so drives a positive impact on the customer, partner and sales team satisfaction.
Most recently this includes working with Microsoft partners to successfully bring digital business transformation to customers across the Asia region by delivering solutions built on Azure cloud services that collect and analyse data to deliver business insights and drive intelligent actions that have meaningful business and market impact.
In her ten years with Microsoft Shirley has held multiple leadership positions managing partner and customer engagement teams. Before Microsoft, Shirley co-founded a successful retail solutions start-up where she served as VP WW Sales & Business Development for six years. Preceding that Shirley held a variety of leadership positions with Fujitsu across geographies including the UK, Caribbean, and the Americas. Shirley Strachan is a passionate leader, a raving fan of technology, sales, business development, and strategy, who has also relished the opportunity to experience a multitude of cultures having lived and worked in numerous geographies during her career.
Scott Zahl serves as Executive Director for Ingram Micro's Global Partner Development group. He is responsible for leading WW vendor relationships within the data center and security categories and for providing vision, strategy, leadership and oversight of global deployment of programs and relationships related to both categories.
Zahl joined Ingram Micro in 2007. Prior to joining Ingram Micro, Zahl served as vice president for the emerging technologies business unit at GE Access. In that role, he was responsible for Access' Partner Solutions in the security, networking and VoIP markets. Zahl also led the Sun, new business development, marketing, e-business and business operations teams during his career at GE Access.
Zahl is a 28-year technology industry leader with the highest degree of integrity and a proven performance record. He is skilled in the development of new business visions, developing strategy and driving the execution to achieve desired results. He has extensive experience in general management, customer and product marketing, supplier and vertical business development, field technical consultants and customer service departments.
Zahl graduated from the University of Colorado with a bachelor's degree in business.
In the current role as leader for Presales team within Dell Technologies Channel Business, Abhijit is responsible for Asia Pacific and Japan markets. Leading the dedicated team of technologist and portfolio architects for Channel Business, Abhijit is driving the adoption of DELL Technologies by customers through large community of Channel Partners. Abhijit’s presales team is responsible for driving key functions like Technical Enablement and Customer Facing activities for focus partners.
Prior to current role, Abhijit was the Director of Systems Engineering for DELL EMC India Enterprise division. He has rich IT industry experience of over 25 years, spanning the entire gamut of security, IT infrastructure management, storage technology to business continuity. He specializes in consulting and solution architecting skills. Prior to this, he held senior technical roles in NetApp and CA.
With advent of changes in industry caused by social, mobility, cloud and big data analytics, Abhijit is playing a key role in driving transformation projects within customer IT environments through key channel partners. He brings with him vital experience for various verticals like finance, telecom, manufacturing, rich media, government, education & research.
Joseph currently leads the Storage and Incubation business at Hewlett Packard Enterprise across Asia Pacific. He is focused on driving Hybrid IT solutions across the storage portfolio including hyper convergence. With the recent acquisitions of SimpliVity and Nimble, Joseph’s sales and pre-sales teams are leading the transition to All Flash Data Centers.
Prior to HPE, Joseph was CTO and Director of Professional and Managed Services at Microware Limited in Hong Kong, one of the largest IT resellers in the Hong Kong market and a close HPE partner. During his time at Microware he helped the company achieve many “industry firsts” in the Hong Kong market including driving the adoption of virtualisation and data center automation as well as Cloud managed services. Joseph has over 20 years’ experience in the IT industry both at the helm of Microware in Hong Kong as well as in the US market; having worked directly with Fortune 500 customers developing B2B sales enablement and e-commerce solutions at an industry leading vendor.
Joseph currently leads the Storage and Incubation business at Hewlett Packard Enterprise across Asia Pacific. He is focused on driving Hybrid IT solutions across the storage portfolio including hyper convergence. With the recent acquisitions of SimpliVity and Nimble, Joseph’s sales and pre-sales teams are leading the transition to All Flash Data Centers.
Prior to HPE, Joseph was CTO and Director of Professional and Managed Services at Microware Limited in Hong Kong, one of the largest IT resellers in the Hong Kong market and a close HPE partner. During his time at Microware he helped the company achieve many “industry firsts” in the Hong Kong market including driving the adoption of virtualisation and data center automation as well as Cloud managed services. Joseph has over 20 years’ experience in the IT industry both at the helm of Microware in Hong Kong as well as in the US market; having worked directly with Fortune 500 customers developing B2B sales enablement and e-commerce solutions at an industry leading vendor.
Based in Singapore, Callum joined VMware in September of 2015 as Senior Director SDDC and Federation Sales and Services GTM APJ (Asia Pacific Japan). He is now Vice President, responsible for VMware’s SDDC portfolio covering APJ.
Born and educated in New Zealand, Callum is a 20 Year IT Veteran, with his employment experience spanning Channel, Sales and Leadership roles throughout Asia Pacific.
Prior to joining VMware, Callum was most recently with Citrix, responsible for the vendors’ Korean business. Prior to 6 years at Citrix Callum came from an IT hardware background, working with Lenovo and Toshiba in the Australia and New Zealand markets. His roles included New Zealand Country Manager for Toshiba followed by ANZ Channel Director for both Toshiba and Lenovo.
Callum holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Lincoln University in New Zealand. He has also competed in the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii and in September of 2018 qualified and competed in the Half Ironman World Championships in Australia.
Based in Singapore, Callum joined VMware in September of 2015 as Senior Director SDDC and Federation Sales and Services GTM APJ (Asia Pacific Japan). He is now Vice President, responsible for VMware’s SDDC portfolio covering APJ.
Born and educated in New Zealand, Callum is a 20 Year IT Veteran, with his employment experience spanning Channel, Sales and Leadership roles throughout Asia Pacific.
Prior to joining VMware, Callum was most recently with Citrix, responsible for the vendors’ Korean business. Prior to 6 years at Citrix Callum came from an IT hardware background, working with Lenovo and Toshiba in the Australia and New Zealand markets. His roles included New Zealand Country Manager for Toshiba followed by ANZ Channel Director for both Toshiba and Lenovo.
Callum holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Lincoln University in New Zealand. He has also competed in the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii and in September of 2018 qualified and competed in the Half Ironman World Championships in Australia.
An 18-years Intel veteran, Ferhad has held leadership positions at Intel in APJ and EMEA.
Ferhad currently leads the Datacenter Solutions Sales team, collaborating with the Intel ecosystem to drive new platform adoption and Intel’s portfolio of Datacenter products.
Previously, Ferhad was the Director of Business Development for Intel’s Data Center Group in EMEA and APJ. Based in Singapore, Ferhad was responsible for managing the strategic direction of the Data Centre Group Sales division in EMEA and APJ consisting of customers that included OEMs, distribution and major accounts.
Prior to that, as Director for Distribution and Channel Sales in APJ, Ferhad was responsible for achieving multi-billion dollar sales through 35k channel partners and distributors. He was chartered with developing and growing the distribution and channel infrastructure, pursuing new channels for IoT and new business models that accelerated growth in the Embedded, Datacenter, Storage and PC business.
As the Account Director of HP APJ, his focus was delivering mutual profitable revenue growth for Intel and HP across the enterprise and consumer segments.
During his tenor in the Middle East, Ferhad led the Global Accounts Team that was responsible for driving incremental consumption revenue with the multinational OEMs through marketing and sales initiatives.
While leading the Industry Sales Group, he covered key accounts in the Energy, Public Sector, Telco, Healthcare and FSI sectors where his team were trusted advisors to enterprise customers on transforming IT into a competitive business advantage.
Prior to joining Intel, Ferhad was the Compaq Proliant Product Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa where he grew Compaq’s premium server revenue.
Ferhad holds an MBA from Heriot Watt University as well as numerous technical accreditations.
As the global head of IoT at Ingram Micro, Ben Xiang is responsible for the overall IoT strategy, solution development and execution across the company. Not only does he work with country leaders on local execution and go-to-market, he is also responsible for strategic initiatives with HNA Group, the parent company of Ingram Micro.
Previously, Xiang was director of special projects for the office of the CEO, where he advised on key strategic initiatives and M&A. He was also part of the corporate development and strategy team that was involved in numerous key M&A transactions.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
As the APAC Lead for the cloud partner business, with the Sales and Marketing organization, I spearhead the work we do to empower customers of all sizes to digitally transform their businesses.
I lead the strategy, planning and execution of multi-million dollar businesses with Microsoft's top partners. My cross-functional, multi-country team of technologists, business and partner development specialists provide technical support and industry expertise to solution vendor companies.
In this, as in all my previous leadership roles, I promote the culture of taking on big, bold challenges, fearlessly. Over the past 20 years, I have relentlessly built teams at technology companies that have delivered growth and annual revenues of over USD300M. I have vast leadership and P&L experience at both emerging and developed global markets.
I eagerly come to work, every day, to learn from collective successes and failures
I strive to be a source of energy and inspire excellence in others.
In my career, I have led Diversity and Inclusion imperatives, Manager Coaching Communities, Technology Learning Circles, - all of which are my passions.
I am an active technology mentor to startups, women’s organisations and causes for the differently abled.
Suresh Venkatachalam is the Head of Market Development, IoT Business Unit based in Singapore. Suresh is a Cisco veteran and is responsible for Cisco’s IoT Go to Market strategy, Partner Enablement & supporting the field in driving the adoption of IoT in key vertical markets and geographies in Asia Pacific and Japan. He has extensive experience in Sales, Business Development, Partner Management, Marketing and Project Management. His focus has been in the Oil& Gas, Automotive and Manufacturing customers. Prior to the current role, Suresh worked as a Professional Services Consultant advising the Cisco’s top 20 global customers in the Asia Pacific region on transformational projects and sharing best practices.
Suresh holds a Master’s Degree in Management and Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering. He also holds certifications in ITIL, PMP, ToGAF (Enterprise Architecture).
Currently the APAC ISV Partners Lead (Technical) managing the technical team across APAC region.
Have performed People Management, Project Lead, Architecture Designs, Application Design & Development, Database Design & Administration, R&D, Release cycles in a wide variety of Industries. I am interested in database technologies using Cloud, Big Data, MS-SQL Server, Oracle and others. Interesting in spreading the world of technology to the community and would like to talk the right usage of technology.
Also a community oriented person running the local SQL and .NET Group. Speaker at all major conferences like TechEd, Author of books, Blogger, Launch and much more.
Specialties:
Competitive analysis with DB, SQL Server, BI, Reporting, ETL, Relational database features, .NET, Sharepoint, Office client Tools (Word, Outlook, PPT, Excel) etc.
Worked with various customers who come to MTC Lab for debugging, performance, security architecture, scalability, deployment, tuning and other performance issues.
Extensive experience in SQL Server optimisation and fine-tuning.
Extensive experience in End-to-End architecture design and implementation.
Extensive experience making methodology and helping customers to the latest OS, SQL Server, Big Data and Cloud based solutions.
Some of the areas I help customers are discussions around Consolidation of infrastructure, Application Tuning, Databases, BI, Productivity, Application Platform and Azure based Architecture designs.
As VMware’s Vice President of Cloud, Asia-Pacific and Japan, David Bate is responsible for leading cloud sales and go-to-market efforts, launching and growing the VMware Cloud on AWS business, and accelerating the VMware Cloud Provider Program across the APJ region.
David has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications and IT industry. His range of experience includes sales leadership, consulting, business partner and channel management, business development, operational management and corporate governance.
Prior to his role at VMware, David was Vice President for IBM Hybrid Cloud in Asia-Pacific. Previously he has held a variety of regional cloud computing and software leadership roles across middleware, software sales and operations. He has lived and worked in Asia and the growth market territories. He is now based in Singapore.
David holds an honours degree in electrical engineering from the University of Canterbury, and a business degree in management and commercial law from the Victoria University of Wellington.
At Red Hat we work with our partners to build digital transformation solutions that use our innovative, enterprise class open source technology.
We work with systems integrators, value added resellers, cloud providers and independent software vendors to help Asia Pacific organisations build modern applications that run on an agile IT infrastructure.
John is a 22 year Ingram Micro veteran, and is currently the Executive Director for Global Partner Development at Ingram Micro. Leading a multinational team of specialized experts who have responsibility for our most strategic partners and vendors worldwide, this team creates innovative solutions for complex global opportunities.
Prior to his global responsibilities, John was the Senior Director for Marketing Account Management, Ingram Micro North America. Under his leadership, the Account Management team is responsible for the strategy and management of the overall relationship and business between the Ingram Micro Marketing Agency and our Manufacturers, Partners, and Business Units. Under the Agency Ingram Micro umbrella, John had also held the position of Sr. Director of Channel Marketing, which managed the overall Marketing efforts for SMB, Public Sector, and Healthcare including our associated partner communities (VentureTech Network, SMBAlliance, System ArchiTECHs, and Public Sector Elite).
John has also served as Director of Sales for Ingram Micro’s VAR division in the US, responsible for developing solution provider strategies and sales operations. A consummate professional, he’s been honored with the Ingram Micro Award of Excellence as well as the coveted VTN Partnership and President’s Club Awards.
In addition to his degree from Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y., John is a graduate of the University of California Irvine’s first Executive Leadership Academy. John relishes spending time with his family and enjoys travel and the occasional game of golf.
A 10-year veteran in Collaboration Technology, Danny Meadows is undoubtedly the most experienced domain expert in Ingram Micro Asia Pacific for Unified Communications. These domain skillsets along with 20 years of channel experience in the ANZ market makes Danny the most sought after expert for the IT and Specialty Channel in New Zealand.
Bob Batchelor has over 30 years of IT industry experience in Technical and Sales roles working with Tier 1 vendors in Europe and Asia Pacific.
Since joining Dell Technologies, Bob has been leading the VDI and Client Solutions Team in providing Workforce Transformation strategies to the Asia-Pacific market.
Seasoned Executive with 20 years of experience in IT industry, focused on Cloud and digital transformation, business development, sales and marketing. Broad international experience in emerging and developed markets. Recognised leader in multinational environment. Experienced in running large teams of hundreds of people and managing $500m+ businesses. Passionate about technology, economics and people talent development.
With more than 30 years of extensive experience in the China IT industry, Patrick Shao has served as Ingram Micro China Chief Country Executive since Feb 2017. In this role, Patrick is responsible for all business operations and the development of new business lines in mainland China.
Prior to Ingram Micro China, Patrick worked at Cisco for 15+ years. His prior role was Chief of Staff to Cisco GC Chairman, GC COO and MD of Partner Organization/Commercial segment for the greater China region. Patrick also worked in various senior management roles at Compaq and DEC China from 1987 to 2000 prior to joining Cisco. He graduated from The University of Hong Kong and holds a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science.
Steve has a long history in the Telecommunications industry spanning over 30 years, with the last 18 years spent working in the Asia Pacific Market.
During this time Steve has launched some of the most exciting and innovative technology platforms in the Collaboration and Contact Centre industry and worked closely with many large organisations across Asia Pacific to bring effective change to their business.
In his current role as Director for Cisco Collaboration in APJ, Steve drives overall business and segment strategy for the complete Cisco Collaboration Portfolio, with a focus on transforming the Workplace and Customer experience.
Steve has a long history in the Telecommunications industry spanning over 30 years, with the last 18 years spent working in the Asia Pacific Market.
During this time Steve has launched some of the most exciting and innovative technology platforms in the Collaboration and Contact Centre industry and worked closely with many large organisations across Asia Pacific to bring effective change to their business.
In his current role as Director for Cisco Collaboration in APJ, Steve drives overall business and segment strategy for the complete Cisco Collaboration Portfolio, with a focus on transforming the Workplace and Customer experience.
Shirish Joshi is Director of Channel Sales of Asia Pacific for Poly. In this role, he is responsible for leading Poly’s APAC Channels & Ecosystem strategy across the region, driving business planning with key partners, and strengthening the company’s go-to-market and distribution strategy. Joshi’s coverage of partners includes distributors, systems integrators, resellers, services provider partners, ecosystem and alliance partners.
Joshi has extensive industry channel experience across Asia Pacific.Prior to joining Poly in 2015, Joshi was Channels and Alliances Director for the ASEAN Region at Citrix Systems. He has also held various leadership roles withCisco Systems from 1996 – 2011, where he managed regional channel sales teams that met annual targets in excess of $700 million across the region.
Originally from India and a resident in Singapore since 2005, Joshi holds an MBA in Management Studies from the University of Mumbai and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Walch and College of Engineering.
Kunal is a part of the APAC OCP (One Commercial Partner) and is currently working as Practice Lead – Modern Workplace APAC. With a total work experience of 13+ years Kunal has been working with the Microsoft Business Productivity suite of products for 11+ years. In his present role, Kunal plays a critical role in working with partners to share a distinct and compelling vision for building new practices and solutions based on Microsoft Productivity and Security that further enables customers to realize the vision of Digital Transformation.
He comes with hands on deployment and pre sales experience and has led and deployed numerous projects across UC platforms in both Microsoft and Cisco world.
Steven (Steve) A. Long is Vice President, Intel Sales and Marketing Group & General Manager of Client Computing Group sales.
Steve joined Intel in 2000 and has held a breadth of positions across sales and marketing, division product planning, pricing, and operations. He began his Intel career in California as a product & pricing market analyst. In 2004, he spent approximately a year in Hong Kong managing the operations team responsible for Intel’s business in Asia. In 2005, Steve moved to Brazil to lead Intel’s reseller channel team. Subsequently, he took over responsibility for all Latin America sales activities. He moved back to the United States in 2008 and managed multinational accounts in the Intel Americas sales organization. In 2010, Steve returned to Brazil in the role of General Manager of Latin America region. He joined Sales and Marketing Group (SMG) staff & relocated to Portland in 2016, leading SMG’s largest transformation effort. Steve was announced as the GM for Client Computing Group sales in Oct, 2017. Prior to joining Intel, Steve was a wireless communications market analyst at Nortel Networks.
Chuan-Wei is the Chief Information Security Officer, Senior Vice President and Chief Cybersecurity Technology Officer with ST Engineering, and has been in the IT industry since 1992 with more than 20 years of experience in information security.
He provides thought leadership, formulates and implements strategic technology development, manages professional services and cybersecurity operations.
Prior to ST Engineering, he was the IBM Security Executive Security Advisor, who was honored as:
• 2014 (ISC)² Asia-Pacific President's Award Honoree,
• 2013 (ISC)² Senior Information Security Leadership Achievement (ISLA) Honoree,
• 2012 (ISC)² Information Security Leadership Achievement (ISLA) Honoree and
• 2010 IDG Chief Security Officer (CSO) ASEAN Award winner.
His career includes various IT management roles in the financial and telecommunication sector regionally. He is also an authorised instructor with (ISC)², lectures at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Institute of Systems Science-National University of Singapore (ISS-NUS) and Temasek Polytechnic.
He received his IT degree from University of Southern Queensland and carries the following professional industry certifications: CISSP, CISA, CFE and BCCE.
Edwin Yeo is vice president of Channels and Alliances for the Asia Pacific region. In this role, he is responsible for leading Symantec’s channels business, driving strategic channel strategies and programs to strengthen the company’s partner ecosystem. Yeo is also focused on building business alliances to accelerate growth across the region.
Yeo successfully led Symantec’s channels team through the spin-off of Veritas and the business transformation resulting from Symantec’s acquisition of Blue Coat in 2016, to create the world’s leading cyber security company.
A seasoned professional with extensive sales and channels experience, Yeo has held numerous leadership positions with technology companies across the region.
Prior to joining Symantec, Yeo was vice president of System Channels at Oracle, responsible for growing the channels and partners business across Asia Pacific. Yeo has also held various sales and channels positions at Sun Microsystems, leading both the Enterprise and Volume business across Asia Pacific and Japan.
He holds an MBA from Rutgers Business School, New Jersey and a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from National University of Singapore.
Michael currently leads Azure Sphere's sales, marketing & Ecosystem activities in China and South Asia aiming to position Azure Sphere as the highest standard for IoT security solutions. He has a successful track record in multiple functions, including strategy, marketing management, business development, and sales management. Michael has outstanding business acumen, excellent communication and negotiation skills, creative in business model innovation and deal making. He has been in the IT industry for over 16+ years.
Based in Singapore, Shanker V Selvadurai is currently the Vice President & CTO of Cloud and Cognitive Software for IBM Asia Pacific where he leads the technical organization that helps clients across Asia Pacific to explore and co-create cloud enabled solutions for the enterprise. A key focus of his organization is the broad adoption of strategic technology capabilities like Data Science, AI, IoT and Blockchain across the enterprise to deliver sustainable competitive advantage and better outcomes.
Prior to joining IBM in 2006, Shanker held key leadership positions in areas of research, development, consulting, sales and marketing with AT&T, NCR and Fujitsu as well as start-up BlueGill Technologies. His international career across North America, Europe and Asia allowed him to amass extensive experience and hone deep skills in building and applying technology enabled capabilities to transform myriads of businesses and organisations across different industries.
Shanker holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Business Administration. He is also an Open Group Certified Distinguished Architect. Besides having published international patents/papers, Shanker actively contributed in international technology standards committees that include the IFX Forum, OFX Consortium and the Microsoft Advisory Council. As adjunct lecturer at the Singapore Management University, he taught courses related to Services Science and Advanced Business Technology.
Samantha is currently IMDA’s Director for the Built Environment Cluster. She oversees IMDA’s effort in supporting built environment related companies gear towards digital transformation to stay ahead and embark on innovation for competitive growth. With a focus on technology and innovation, IMDA works with Singapore companies to re-design operating service models, review business practices for better outcomes, optimise resources, enhance productivity and increase value-add.
Samantha’s group also drives the Smart Estates Initiative where IMDA, with other agencies, identify opportunities for smart estate developments in Singapore and overseas, facilitate tech partnerships and build the smart estates ecosystem. Coupled with her previous roles in other economic agencies, Samantha is passionate about working with Singapore companies to develop business capabilities, devise innovation roadmaps, and support business growth.
Kiran Babu manages Business Development of Schneider Electric’s local Edge offers & Rack systems in conjunction with Countries Sales & Solutions, design teams and works closely with customers in an advisory role, offering strategic counsel to help them successfully implement the right technical solutions for their IT Infrastructure. As a Business Development Manager, he provides subject matter expertise for Edge Computing - Converged Critical Infrastructure, Data Centre Infrastructure which includes Power, Cooling, Racks, Software & Services.
Kiran has gained over 18+ years of experience in Asia, MEA, SAM & CIS in Business Development, Enterprise and Channel Management.
Ram, is a 22 year Intel veteran, and has over 25+ years in the IT industry. He is currently the sales specialist for commercial client and workstation platforms for Asia Pacific.
Ram has held a variety of product marketing and sales roles at Intel, both for the India market as well as the APJ region. He joined Intel in 1997 in technical support role for the channels in India. He moved to Singapore in 2000, and did multiple product and platform leadership roles for Asia Pacific during his stint in Singapore till 2011. He was the launch and ramp lead for the 1st and 2nd gen Intel® Core™ processor platforms, as well as the launch lead for the Intel® Atom processor platforms.
He has a good understanding of the client platform as well as the markets in Asia Pacific.
In the summer of 2010, Ram did a stint with the Platform competitive analysis team at Intel HQ in Santa Clara.
In 2011, Ram moved back to India, to head MNC business for Intel India. During that time, there were new product launches from the MNCs like 2 in 1s, thin and light and AIO FFs.
He holds a degree in Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University.
Here in Asia Pacific Paul is responsible for maintaining IBM's technical and business lead in world-class information security technology and its practical and effective implementation. Paul's security experience makes him especially well qualified to shape the direction of the company's research, offering and delivery endeavors, as well as to act as a spokesperson to the business and analyst community on security issues and solutions. Paul is passionate about helping clients find realistic ways to resolve security issues through a balanced use of technology, people and process.
YiLun Miao serves as Director, Solution Consulting & Professional Services, APJ. He leads a team of business astute technologists across Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). This team drives XaaS growth and opening new revenue streams for Telcos, MSPs and Cloud Service Providers in the region. As part of his role, YiLun works closely with senior executives from strategic customers, helping to set their strategy for revenue growth & Go-To-Market execution.
YiLun joined CloudBlue in March 2018. Prior to joining CloudBlue, he led Business Development and technology in APJ for a Start-up based in San Francisco and saw it grow to achieve Unicorn Status. Before that, YiLun held a number of senior positions at Dell Technologies. Most notably, YiLun holds a number of academic publications in IEEE and Electronic Journals for his research in Nano-technology and Photonics, working with University of Sydney.
Base in Sydney, Australia, YiLun holds a Bachelor of Telecommunications Engineering degree from University of Sydney, and an MBA from AGSM, University of New South Wales. He is a regular speaker at various industry events including CRN, CommunicAsia and CloudExpo. YiLun enjoys writing blogs during his spare time.
Ratnesh is Director, Distribution at VMware responsible for all routes to market for VeloCloud. He joined VMware after the acquisition of VeloCloud in December 2017. Prior to VMware, Ratnesh has held Product Management, Channels and Marketing leadership roles in in high-growth startups (VeloCloud, InMobi, newScale, Webify) and global Fortune-500s (VMware, Citrix, Oracle, Sun Microsystems).
A passionate landscape photographer, he looks forward to the day when his IOT enabled DSLR could benefit from the security of SD-WAN.
Ratnesh has an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, a MS in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University and a BS in Electrical Engineering and Physics from BITS, Pilani.
Anthony Smith (aka Tony) leads the Asia, Pacific and Japan Channel for Aruba. His responsibility includes caring for Aruba’s Distributors and Resellers, Managed Service Providers, System Integrators and Inside Sales programs and sales. Tony was previously leading Aruba’s South Pacific’s business since 2017 and before was the HPE Server business unit lead for SouthPac.
Before Aruba and HPE; Tony was with IBM and then at Lenovo leading the System x Server and Data Center Network business unit; and was the sales manager for networking and security services in IBM’s Global Services and also was the channel manager for servers and storage for IBM Australia Channels.
Sabine Howest is vice president of global vendor engagement for Ingram Micro Inc.
A member of the Ingram Micro leadership team, Sabine is responsible for the global business development of the company’s top vendor & reseller partners, the growth of the company’s value-add capabilities in enterprise and specialty markets, and the enhancement of the vendor marketing experience.
Sabine’s home country is Germany. She holds a master’s degree in international trade and a bachelor’s degree in foreign applied languages from Sorbonne University in France. She also holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD where she was honoured with the INSEAD-Handelsblatt Scholarship for ‘Women and Leadership’ in 2008.
Jenson joins VMware in 2017 to lead the vSAN Hyper-Converged business for Southeast Asia & Korea. Having grown the business 7X to #1 HCI software market share in the region, Jenson has helped numerous enterprises digitally transform their data center and embark on a journey to multi-cloud. He started his career in backup & recovery technologies and has accumulated more than 15 years of experience in enterprise data storage. Having spoken in events such as Govware, vForum, Virtualisation & Cloud Symposium, CIO & Partner Leadership Forums, he now strongly advocates Software Defined Data Center as a digital foundation to propel agile digital businesses.
Lai Teng is currently the Business Development Manager for the Intel Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group (NSG). She is responsible for driving the Intel 3D NAND SSDs and Intel Optane Technology opportunities with the channel partners in the Asia Pacific & Japan region. Lai Teng joined Intel in 2001 and has done multiple roles in the consumer and data-center segment.
Over 17 years of experience in IT industry in End user computing and Data centre space with proficiency in roles like Presales, Solution Architect and Program Management. Complete end to end view of the IT solution space having worked with an end customer organisation, IT service provider and a Technology/Product Company. Working on emerging technologies help customers drive business transformation.
David is a 20 year veteran of the networking industry, who’s experience includes running sales, channel and distribution teams across APJC.
David is leading the rapid expansion of a distribution and partner business across new markets in Asia Pacific, China, and Japan for a hyper-growth technology company.
He is passionate about mentoring next generation sales professionals, setting up channel partner business’s for success, and most importantly, being a great father for his two daughters.
Outside of the office, David is an avid beer brewer and enjoys building “things” that merge tradition with technology.
Senior executive with over 20 years of experience, 13 years of which he dedicated to developing cybersecurity businesses in Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Acronis, Maxim worked for more than a decade at Kaspersky Lab - responsible for APAC region with comprehensive understanding of the current cybersecurity threat landscape and the application of mitigation strategies.
Eric Buck is the Vice President, Global Distribution and Digital Partner Sales. He leads the global sales effort for digital partner sales and distribution management.
Eric is responsible for all aspects of global distribution strategy, coverage and execution as well as recruitment, management and growth with emerging partnerships, increasing focus on the transition to cloud-based deployment, IoT support, and advanced analytics.
Buck’s 20-year career includes leadership roles at vendor, distributor and reseller companies spanning networking, wireless, storage and cloud technologies. Prior to joining Hitachi Vantara, he led WW partner sales at Ruckus Networks, an enterprise networking company. Also, he was responsible for WW distribution at Brocade. Before that, he held leadership positions at TESSCO, an outdoor wireless reseller and distributor and Tech Data with responsibilities for the Cisco business unit and Sales Operations.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Florida and has his MBA.
Steve joined Intel in 2000 and has held a breadth of positions across sales and marketing, division product planning, pricing, and operations. He began his Intel career in California as a product & pricing market analyst. In 2004, he spent approximately a year in Hong Kong managing the operations team responsible for Intel’s business in Asia. In 2005, Steve moved to Brazil to lead Intel’s reseller channel team. Subsequently, he took over responsibility for all Latin America sales activities. He moved back to the United States in 2008 and managed multinational accounts in the Intel Americas sales organization. In 2010, Steve returned to Brazil in the role of General Manager of Latin America region. He joined Sales and Marketing Group (SMG) staff & relocated to Portland in 2016, leading SMG’s largest transformation effort. Steve was announced as the GM for Client Computing Group sales in Oct, 2017. Prior to joining Intel, Steve was a wireless communications market analyst at Nortel Networks.
Courtney is a Program Director at Pivotal. Courtney is dedicated to accelerating growth among strategic partners Dell EMC and VMware as a part of Pivotal's Dell Tech Synergy team. She spent 5 years at legacy EMC in Tech Marketing and most recently drove sales as Director of Business Development for a portfolio of construction companies in the Energy space.
Bernard Tan is the Channels and Alliance Manager for Schneider Electric’s Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software business. He is responsible to drive growth in the software business through strategic partnerships and alliances.
Bernard’s current role at Schneider Electric will draw on more than 15 years of IT experience in software, hardware, services and consulting helping customers to address their most demanding business challenges in and around the data centre.
Bernard’s extensive and broad experience in business development, consulting as well as partner management allows Bernard to develop software technology and service solutions across a range of industry sectors and customer portfolios.
Amol Mitra is the Global Vice President and General Manager of Small and Medium Businesses (SMB) at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) company. He oversees functions encompassing R&D, product management, business intelligence, operations, marketing and sales and is responsible for driving a focused go-to-market strategy, addressing the needs of the SMB and Mid-Market customer segments.
Prior to this, Amol served as Aruba’s Chief Technology Officer for Asia Pacific, a position he has held since 2017 where he was accountable for driving the innovation agenda for the business and led a team responsible for technology vision and strategy for networking, spanning both campus and data center networks. Amol also previously served as General Manager, Aruba Product Management, Asia Pacific, and was responsible for leading Aruba's Data Center, Campus Switching (wired and wireless) and Small & Medium Business product strategy and go-to-market execution.
A network evangelist and technology expert with more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry, Amol has led and participated in several HPE cross-business initiatives spanning the areas of storage, servers, services and networking. He has served in numerous leadership positions at HPE and Aruba. Amol also holds several patents for developing cutting-edge technology in the network switching area. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from M.S. University, India, a master’s degree in computer science from Purdue University, and an MBA from the University of California at Davis.
Imi Mosaheb joined AMD in June of 2002, with over 22 years in Sales, Business Development and implementing multimillion-dollar businesses that provide clients with complete technology product solutions. He led the introduction of commercial computational products with Compaq/HP, opened the AMD Africa office and then led the HPE account development with AMD's EPYC processor family.
Imi is currently responsible for leading and driving AMD’s growth in the server markets with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, focusing on the development of strategic relationships, and the long-term Sales strategy. He is responsible for leading the worldwide Sales Out team to deliver AMD’s growth in the server markets with HPE GEOs.
Robert joined LogMeIn in April 2017, and leads the Channel & Alliances business for Asia Pacific & Japan. He has spent 15 years working in technology sales, and leadership positions. He spent 2 years working with Hewlett Packard running their channel business for aaS, and 3 years at Staples where he ran Inside sales, Services, Operations and Licensing for their technology solutions division for Australia and New Zealand. Rob also spent 8 years with Dell in senior sales management roles, in Toronto and Ottawa Canada, Casablanca Morocco, and Sydney Australia, managing teams in all of the above, along with India and Malaysia.
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Tom Lee leads the Sales Engineering team in the Asia Pacific region. He began his career with Zebra Technologies as a technology consultant 14 years ago. Tom’s loves to experiment, educate, and promote new technologies. His passion and experience are in the networking and software development field. Recently, he joined the Asia Pacific region from North America where he led Zebra Technologies’ top customers in the most strategic and large implementations. Prior to Zebra, he was a technology consultant specialising in designing and optimising computer networks.
Tom’s team focuses on providing technical expertise, strategic planning, and recommendations to customers based off business requirements. Within the company, Tom provides technical expertise, strategic planning, recommendations to customers for new technologies and applications in response to business requirements and helping to break into newer product categories and solution areas to help Zebra customers be more efficient and competitive. During Tom’s breakout session, he will share how Zebra and its partners are providing value with specific customer use cases.
Shashi’s Professional journey in Information Technology spans over 28 Years across varied Industries & verticals. In his current role, Shashi is driving Edge and IoT Solutions business for Dell Technologies in APJ and Greater China as General Manager & Regional Sales Director.
He has been leading the overall Edge and IoT Solutions strategy in close collaboration with Alliance Partners, ISV’s, Channels and System Integrators. Our BU approach on Edge-Core-Cloud framework and leveraging all strategically aligned businesses under Dell Technologies makes us unique and distinct in addressing the IT Infrastructure ecosystem involved in Edge and IoT Solutions business.
Prior to this role, Shashi has been instrumental in leading OEM | Embedded & Edge Solutions business and executed the growth plan of a niche portfolio for Dell Technologies in India and South Asia. OEM | Embedded and Edge team’s core expertise is to address Business Objectives of Customers and enable them to expedite their GTM plan.
Christanto Suryadarma has been the Managing Director - Services Channel and Service Providers - Asia Pacific for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Singapore since August 2017.
Prior to that, he was Managing Director Channel, Commercial and Alliances for South East Asia, Taiwan and Hong Kong since August 2013.
As Managing Director, he is responsible for Indirect Sales Organization, currently covering Services Channels and Service Providers in the Asia Pacific region. He focuses on optimising and building up strong Channel Partner Ecosystem, establishing strong partnerships to drive growth in the Region especially the opportunities in their partner-led space.
Prior to this, he was the Group Vice President Enterprise Business Development at ECS Group, from September 2012 to August 2013.
From March 2006 to August 2012, he was the Senior Director Asia Pacific Region at Microsoft Singapore where he led the Regional team in engaging top customers, developing Strategic Business Partnerships in growing OEM Business in Asia Pacific, Japan and India Regions.
He also served in various Strategic and Development roles in Intel Corporation, Keris Group and Digital Equipment Corporation. His experience in IT dated as far back as 1989.
A known driver, facilitator, coach, collaborator and communicator with well-developed interpersonal understanding that has facilitated success within varied cultures and geographies and maintained productive working relationships with all internal departments and external stakeholders.
Jaya was recently roped in to head the Channels, Distribution and Alliances business for the Secure Power Division at Schneider Electric for Greater India.
In this role, Jaya is responsible for Home and Business Network offers, Cooling channel sales, Rack channel sales and Medium and Easy offers besides leading strategic initiatives such as Edge, EcoStruxure, eCommerce and the Elite DC partner programs.
Scott Sacket, Senior Vice President of Business Development at AvePoint, has spent more than a 15 years in the enterprise technology field. Since joining AvePoint in early 2007, Scott has served in several executive roles, and has been tasked with creating both operational and go to market strategies for the global sales and channel organisations.
In his current role, Scott manages AvePoint’s global strategic alliances, distribution, and CSP programs. In his past, Scott has held key roles at early stage startups focused on document management, data analytics, and the business intelligence space.
Roy McLean is Senior Manager in the Global Distribution Sales Organization. Roy leads a team that is focused on Sales Readiness to enable teams at Cisco and our Distributors to prepare for new selling motions, develop new routes to market, provide digital resource strategy and design, scale capabilities supporting annuity offers. Roy and his team work closely with stakeholders regionally, across the Global Partner Organization and many cross functional teams to adapt to the dynamic needs of the business and align execution.
Roy is also driving the integration of Cisco offers into Distributor Marketplaces. These evolving marketplaces will bring speed and efficiency to both Partners and Distributors, and reduce ordering and provisioning complexity significantly.
Roy has more than 20 years’ experience in the 2-Tier Distribution landscape, serving in roles from System Engineer in the US and Senior Systems Engineering Manager for the Americas, and prior to his current role, served as the Senior manager of Technology Solutions for Global Distribution.
Wei Sheong is responsible for the Advanced Solutions Portfolio for Ingram Micro Asia Pacific. His role is to work with Ingram Micro’s advanced solutions country teams and vendors to enhance the technology solutions practices across countries to a standardised framework through an appropriate regional and global leverage. His other key focus is to identify emerging technologies and companies that will further strengthen the strategic positioning of Ingram Micro as the solution aggregator in this transformative age. Aligned to the digital transformation trend, his area of focus is now on IoT, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain.
Wei Sheong’s professional career spans over 18 years in the Information & Communications Technology (ICT) Industry. He received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Charlie Chye heads up Security Consulting and Services, ASEAN and Hong Kong as Director since Ingram acquired the whole CNAV team on 25th May 2017. He is currently leading a team of Consultants specialising in Professional Services for Cyber Security Solution with focus in implementing Security Operation Centre, Data Governance and IT Compliance.
Charlie Chye is an IT professional with about 30 years of experience with early years of focus in Banking & Finance industry.
He has been closely involved in projects from global networked systems, mission-critical a pplication management to high-security e-payment/e-banking solutions. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science and a Master of Technology in Software Engineering. Among all other certifications, he has been a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) since 2004 and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) since 2008.
Prior to Ingram, Charlie founded CNAV Business Value Pte Ltd in 2008 and started offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and South Korea. Before that, Charlie was the Head of Emerging Technologies team under Symantec Consulting, Asia Pacific and Japan. During the 3 years with Symantec, Charlie built and led a team of consultants that successfully delivered projects of technology that was relatively new to the market. Before working for Symantec, Charlie was a Principal Consultant with Reuters Consulting, Asia. In his 12-year career with Reuters, he was placed in charge of mission-critical trading and risk management systems dealing with real-time data on global infrastructures. He was also the key architect using Microsoft Technology for designing a multi-million dollar enterprise platform for a regional bank during the same period.
Ms. Eunice Lau currently serves as the Executive Director of Product Management of Ingram Micro ASEAN & Hong Kong, She is responsible for the management and development of the Advanced Solutions & Specialty business, Security Consultancy, Education and Technical Services of the company.
Started in Ingram Micro since 1995, Eunice has taken on different roles in Ingram Micro, primarily business fronting, from sales to product management. She has a history of successfully leading transformational change for the technical and professional services businesses for the region. In addition, her expertise in the advanced solutions arena has also been extremely beneficial for the company to achieve the business goals.
Eunice is reputable for her unrelenting focus on quality and efficiency combined with a commitment for her work, as well as being an effective leader who helps to guide, develop and advance many of her Managers. As such, she is very well respected throughout the local and regional operations.
Eunice holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration in University of London (Imperial College). She is married with 3 lovely children.
Anirban Mukherjee is Red Hat Asia Pacific's Business Development Director for Cloud. In this role, he works with customers, partners and members of the open source community to facilitate the adoption of Red Hat Cloud technologies. His focus is to help companies harnessing the potential of technologies to build practices that expedite execution of their business strategies towards the development of digital capabilities. His work involves working with key customers embarking on transformation projects in order to drive agility and operational efficiencies within their IT organization. In an APAC role, he leads the business development initiatives carried out in the region by Sales Specialist and Solution Architects. This includes creating and executing sales and marketing plans aligned with the global strategy for Red Hat’s Cloud portfolio. He acts as a conduit between clients, partners and Red Hat Product Management to influence the roadmap and commercial offerings.
Anirban has over 15 years’ experience working in the IT industry, before joining Red Hat he worked with AWS and HPE in various across the Asia Pacific. He holds a Master of Engineering from the University of Technology, Sydney and MBA from the University of Cambridge, UK.
