SolarWinds has appointed Bharat Bedi as Managing Director of its Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) operations. In his new role, Bedi will be fortifying the fundamentals of the business operations and realigning strategies to make a […]
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Ascom Australia promotes sales head to country manager
Ascom Australia has promoted Head of Sales Roberto Lozada to Country Manager for Australia and New Zealand. Lozada is a seasoned executive who brings a wealth of international experience in sales, marketing, and general management, […]
Pure Storage appoints APJ VP
Pure Storage has appointed Nathan Hall as Vice President of Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) to oversee sales and deliver real business results for its customers. Based in Singapore, Hall is a seasoned technology leader […]
Dataiku gets new president
Dataiku has apppointed as Krish Venkataraman as President overseeing all corporate and administrative operations, expanding upon the foundation set for growth and broader market presence. He has a strong and diverse track record of leadership […]
Dataiku names SVP for APJ
Dataiku has appointed JY Pook as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). Pook joins Dataiku from Tableau at Salesforce after almost 12 years as Senior Vice President and General […]
Databricks appoints Asean GM
Databricks has appointed Cecily Ng as Vice President and General Manager for Asean as part of its regional expansion strategy. With 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Ng is responsible for leading and […]
Hugosave onboards COO
Hugosave has appointed Karl Franks as its Chief Operating Officer responsible for driving Hugosave’s strategic growth initiatives in Singapore and Asia-Pacific. Franks will also oversee the Singapore-based fintech firm’s day-to-day operations and enhance operational effectiveness […]
Google Cloud appoints SEA MD
Google Cloud has appointed Mark Micallef as Managing Director of Southeast Asia. Micallef will be responsible for driving regional strategy, direction, team development, and overall revenue performance for Google Cloud and Google Workspace, and working […]
Rubrik names CMO
Rubrik has appointed Andres Botero as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) responsible for driving the company’s go-to-market strategies and growth initiatives. Botero is an enterprise SaaS leader with more than 20 years of experience at cloud […]
Telstra appoints international head
Telstra has appointed Roary Stasko as the new CEO of its international business. Based in San Francisco, Stasko will assume his new role on July 1, taking over from Oliver Camplin-Warner, who will be moving […]
Google Cloud names Malaysia Country Manager
Google Cloud has appointed Patrick Wee as Country Manager in Malaysia where he will lead local go-to-market operations for Google Cloud and Google Workspace, and collaborate with teams across Google to help companies digitally transform […]
New Relic names SVP
New Relic has apppointed Kris Day as Senior Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) to drive expansion in the region and lead the business into its next stage of growth. Day has more […]
MongoDB names regional VP
MongoDB has appointed Stewart Garrett as Regional Vice President of Asean to focus on helping organisations transform and innovate with its developer data platform. Garrett is responsible for MongoDB’s go-to-market across the region. “We have […]
Workato makes leadership appointments
Workato has appointed Allan Teng (above left) as Founder and Senior Advisor for Workato Asia Pacific and Japan, and Amlan Debnath (above right) as Managing Director for Workato Asia Pacific and Japan. Teng will move […]
Microsoft onboards Japan President
Miki Tsusaka has been named as the new President of Microsoft Japan where she will lead customer and business partner engagement and be responsible for all its product, solution, service and support offerings in Japan. […]
Paessler makes key APAC apppointments
Paessler has strengthened its Asia Pacific presence with the appointment of Jim Lee (left) as Business Development Manager and Tommy Lok (right) as Director of Technical Services. Lee will help in driving investment and working […]
Hitachi Vantara appoints CMO
Hitachi Vantara has named Monica Kumar as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), who reports directly to Chief Executive Officer Gajen Kandiah. She was most recently Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and Cloud GTM at Nutanix. […]
SolarWinds boosts APJ leadership team
SolarWinds has appointed Aten Lim (above) as Managing Director, Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ), and Sara Kao as Marketing Director, APJ to chart the region’s sales and marketing strategies. Their appointment reinforces the company’s commitment to […]
Shopback brings on new Commercial MD
Singapore-headquartered ShopBack has named Alessio Romeni as Managing Director of Commercial, who will be in charge of spearheading merchant-solutions, revenue-generation, and pricing initiatives in the Group’s Online Affiliates space regionally. Romeni was previously Chief Revenue […]
Schneider appoints new Pacific Zone VP
Schneider Electric has named Tina Hu as the new VP, Global Supply Chain and Customer Experience for Pacific Zone. As a key member of the executive team, Tina will be responsible for leading the Global […]
Crypto.com appoints Singapore GM
Crypto.com has named Chin Tah Ang as General Manager of Singapore. Ang has a wealth of strategic business development experience in the technology sector and a deep understanding of the Singapore market. He was most […]
Proofpoint gets new VP for SEA and Korea
Proofpoint has appointed Evan Dumas (above) as Vice President for Southeast Asia and Korea (SAK). He is responsible for establishing and growing business within SAK. Dumas brings with him more than 20 years of experience […]
Prvidr gets new CEO
Australian software-as-a-service platform (SaaS) provider Prvidr has appointed David Joss as its CEO. The telecoms industry veteran is tasked with expanding the client base and industry verticals. Joss was most recently CEO of Southern Phone […]
Rocket Software onboards CFO
Rocket Software has named Bruce Bowden as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) where he will oversee the company’s finance, legal, and corporate development teams with a focus on driving enterprise transformation, growth and profitability. Veteran CFO […]
VMware names new business leader for SEA and Korea
VMware has appointed Stephen Robinson as Partner and Commercial Business Leader for Southeast Asia and Korea (SEAK). He will work closely with regional customers and partners to help them optimise their cloud transformation journeys. “Stephen […]
Milestone names APAC VP
Milestone Systems has appointed Malou Toft as Vice President for Asia Pacific (APAC). He will be responsible for the company’s long-term growth strategy in APAC through business expansion, strategic partnerships and customer acquisition. Pandemic nothwithstanding, […]
Armis appoints research CTO
Armis has appointed Tom Gol as CTO for Research to lead and oversee all threat and vulnerability research, and enhance the Armis platform. Gol has extensive experience leading research and development teams specialising in managing […]
Mimecast opens SEA regional office in Singapore
Mimecast has established an office in Singapore as its regional hub for Southeast Asia (SEA). SEA is a strategic growth market to the email security and cyber resilience company. Organisations in the region are experiencing […]
MyRepublic promotes Yap Yong Teck to President
Singapore-based telco MyRepublic has promoted Yap Yong Teck from Group Managing Director to President. In his new role, Yap is directly responsible for driving growth, operational efficiency and synergies across the company’s service businesses in […]
Spenmo appoints first CRO
Singapore-based Spenmo has appointed Kevin Fitzgerald as its first Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), who is tasked with leading sales, marketing, partnerships, and customer success teams in Asia. Prior to joining the payables software startup, Fitzgerald […]
SAS appoints Asean Head
SAS has named Derek Seow as its new Head of Asean to lead the regional team’s drive towards growth and profitability. Seow will also oversee the streamlining of operations to ensure efficient business operations and […]
Snowflake names new SVP for Asean and India
Snowflake has appointed Sanjay Deshmukh as Senior Regional Vice President for Asean and India. Sanjay will drive customer success, strengthen partnerships and consistently increase brand equity. His responsibilities include developing and executing strategic plans to […]
Talend appoints Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer
Talend has appointed Dustin Grosse as Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer. Grosse has more than 25 years of marketing, strategy and go-to-market general management experience in helping drive growth and profitability of a wide range […]
IBM gets new APAC GM
IBM has appointed Paul Burton as General Manager of its Asia Pacific (APAC) business. He takes over from Brenda Harvey who is assuming a senior role with the company in the US. Burton is responsible […]
Boomi names new CEO
Boomi has appointed David Meredith to replace the retiring Chris McNabb as Chief Executive Officer effective January 31, 2022. He joins from Everbridge, where he held a similar position and let the company to rapid […]
Lim Hsin Yin is SAS’ new Singapore MD
SAS has appointed Lim Hsin Yin as its new Managing Director for Singapore. She will be responsible for driving the growth of SAS’s business in Singapore, with a focus on accelerating customer adoption of AI […]
Rubrik adds Yvonne Wassenaar to its board
Rubrik has named Yvonne Wassenaar to its Board of Directors. Wassenaar brings deep experience in SaaS and enterprise go-to-market, having previously held key leadership positions at VMware, Accenture and New Relic. She is CEO of […]
Acronis appoints Paul Maritz as chairman
Acronis has appointed Paul Maritz as Chairman of its Board of Directors Backed by 40 years of experience in computer science and software, Maritz will be responsible for the governance and leadership of Acronis. He […]
Kofax appoints SVP of Technology Strategy and Experience
Kofax has appointed Adam Field in the newly-created position of Senior Vice President of Technology Strategy and Experience. Field will leverage his vast experience to drive innovation and optimise Kofax customer experiences to maximise the […]
NVIDIA CEO makes Time most influential list
Jensen Huang has been recognised as one of Time Magazine’s top 100 most influential people. The NVIDIA CEO was described as among the world’s most technically savvy CEOs. “He’s also a compassionate steward of his […]
ForgeRock appoints Smith as CPO
ForgeRock has named Tschudy Smith as Chief People Officer to lead talent strategy, including employee experience, rewards, attraction, retention, development, diversity, and inclusion for ForgeRock’s global workforce of more than 760 employees. Smith was formerly […]
Acronis names Patrick Pulvermueller as CEO
Acronis has appointed Patrick Pulvermueller (above) as Chief Executive Officer. He replaces Serguei Beloussov, who founded the company in 2003 and has served as CEO since 2013. Most recently President of the Partner Business at […]
Trackunit sets up regional HQ in Singapore
Denmark-headquartered software-led telematics solutions provider Trackunit has set up a regional HQ in Singapore and offices in Australia and Japan to better serve its customers in the region. Focusing on the digitisation of the construction […]
Marriage over for Gates
Bill and Melinda Gates have pulled the plug on their 27-year marriage. In a tweet, they that they could no longer grow together as a couple. But, the couple will continue their philathrophic together at […]
IBM names CEO for new managed infrastructure services business
IBM has appointed Martin Schroeter as Chief Executive Officer of the new independent managed infrastructure services business, which launches on January 15. The new company will focus on the management and modernisation of IT infrastructure […]
Samsung appoints Sangho Jo as SEA and Oceania President and CEO
Samsung Electronics has appointed Sangho Jo as President and Chief Executive Officer for Southeast Asia (SEA) and Oceania. He is charged with maintaining Samsung’s leadership position and seizing long-term growth opportunities. “I look forward to […]
Former Trump advisor Cohn becomes Vice Chairman of IBM
IBM has appointed former presidential economic advisor Gary D Cohn as Vice Chairman and member of its Executive Leadership Team. He will work with CEO Arvind Krishna and the IBM Executive Leadership Team on a […]
Akamai names Parimal Pandya as APJ MD
Akamai Technologies has appointed Parimal Pandya as Managing Director, Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ), in addition to his current role as Vice President of Media and Carrier Sales, Asia Pacific & Japan. In his new […]
Daon opens Singapore office, appoints Regional VP
Daon has opened its Southeast Asia office in Singapore and appointed Trilochan Sehgal as Regional Vice President, SEA. The new office and appointment highlight the importance of SEA and better position the company to respond […]
OpenSynergy appoints Matthias Stumpf as Sales VP
OpenSynergy, which providers embedded software products for the next generation of vehicles, has named Matthias Stumpf as its Vice President Sales.
Proofpoint makes Alex Lei APJ lead
Proofpoint has appointed Alex Lei as its Regional Leader for Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ).
Intel rejigs technology organisation
It has not been a good week for Intel. AMD has surpassed Intel in share value while Intel’s 7nm manufacturing process has grabbed headlines for all the wrong reasons. Not to mention, the delay of its 10nm desktop CPUs for a year.
ZTE appoints President of Mobile Devices
Ni: Seizing 5G and IoT opportunitiesZTE has appointed Ni Fei as President of Mobile Devices. Ni will continue to function as President of Nubia Technology, a position he has held since May 2019.
IBM selects new Chief
IBM has chosen Arvind Krishna to be its new Chief Executive Officer from April 6. The current Senior Vice President for Cloud and Cognitive Software will take over the reign from Virginia Rometty, who will remain as Executive Chairman of the Board and serve until her retirement at the end of the year.
ForgeRock names David Hope as SVP of APAC and Japan
Digital identity solution provider ForgeRock has appointed David Hope as Senior Vice President for Asia-Pacific and Japan.
LG Electronics appoints Kwon as new CEO
LG Electronics has reshuffled its top leadership with the appointment of Brian Kwon as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Gojek founder to join Indonesia cabinet
Source: World Economic ForumFrom founding a startup to being part of the Indonesia cabinet, 35-year-old Nadiem Makarim has certainly come a long way. The Founder and CEO of ride-hailing and e-payment giant Gojek has announced his resignation from the company his started to join newly re-elected President Joko Widodo’s team.
Fujitsu HK appoints Tang as new GM of sales
Fujitsu Hong Kong has appointed Freddie Tang as General Manager of Sales. In his new role, Tang will oversee Fujitsu’s sales and go-to-market strategy in Hong Kong and Macau, including building relationships with strategic and enterprise customers, growing the customer base, developing new vertical markets, and optimising sales functions to achieve cost effectiveness and sales efficiency.
AMD CEO to deliver Computex 2019 keynote
This year’s Computex in Taipei will kick off with a keynote address by AMD President and CEO Lisa Su at the Computex International Press Conference on May 27 at 10am.
Zhao becomes 1st female managing director of Samsung Electronics HK
Samsung Electronics HK (SEHK) has appointed Yiyin Zhao as its first female Managing Director. She was previously Vice President & Head of IT and Mobile Communication Business
