Jim Whitehurst was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat in December 2007.
Before joining Red Hat, Whitehurst held various positions at Delta Airlines, most recently as Chief Operating Officer, responsible for Operations, Sales and Customer Service, Network and Revenue Management, Marketing and Corporate Strategy. Prior to joining Delta, Whitehurst served as a Partner of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and held various leadership roles in their Chicago, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Atlanta offices.
Mr. Damien Wong, General Manager, RedHat ASEAN
Damien Wong is the General Manager for ASEAN at Red Hat. He is responsible for overall sales and business management for the ASEAN region, including short and long term sales objectives, channel relations, business office operations and staff training.
Prior to Red Hat, Damien was the General Manager, Southeast Asia, HP Software across the SEA region. He was also the Director for Service Portfolio Management in HP Software in Asia Pacific & Japan.
Damien’s extensive IT industry experience also includes technical and management positions for various organizations, such as Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore), Firium Solutions, and Accenture.
Mr. Gordon Haff, Cloud Evangelist, RedHatInc.
Gordon Haff is senior cloud strategy marketing and evangelism manager at Red Hat.
Prior to Red Hat,Gordon wrote hundreds of research notes, was frequently quoted in publications like The New York Times on a wide range of IT topics, and advised clients on product and marketing strategies. Earlier in his career, he was responsible for bringing a wide range of computer systems, from minicomputers to large UNIX servers, to market while at Data General. Gordon has engineering degrees from MIT and Dartmouth and an MBA from Cornell’s Johnson School.
Mr. Richard Koh, Country Manager, Red Hat Singapore
Richard has been in the IT software industry for over 15 years at both technical and sales level. Currently, he is the country manager for Singapore at Red Hat. In his current role, he is responsible for the sales and business development activities in the country.
Prior to Red Hat, Richard held key technical and sales management roles in HP Software. He was responsible for building up and managing the technical and sales teams in the Southeast Asia region including Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam and Pakistan.
Richard began his career at IBM in the global services team as a consultant with many years of enterprise project implementation experience covering both technical and management roles.
Mr. Sivaram Shunmugam, Lead Solutions Architect, Red Hat ASEAN
Sivaram Shunmugam is the Lead Solutions Architect for Red Hat in Southeast Asia. He specializes in Cloud, Virtualization and Linux infrastructure technologies. On a day-to-day basis he consults with end users, system integrators and independent software vendors on how best to effectively design and enable enterprise environments using various aspects of open source technology.
Siva has a vast 10 year experience in the IT industry. Both end users and partners alike consider him a Trusted Adviser for implementing open source technologies for their mission critical enterprise environments. His experience entails enabling customers to embrace open source technologies in environments ranging from x86 based servers to mainframes.
Ms. Ng Hwee Ming, Virtualization / Cloud Domain Architect, Red Hat ASEAN
Hwee Ming joined Red Hat this year as the Virtualization Domain Architect based in Singapore supporting the ASEAN region. Before that she was previously with HP Software Professional Services (SEA) working with customer across the region on HP solution such as Cloud offering as well as ITSM and data center transformation.
Hwee Ming has over 10 years' experience in the industry covering a wide range of sectors from public sector, commercial, manufacturing, financial services and communication service provider with main focus in the communication service provider industry.
Mr. Francis Goh, Business Unit Executive, Power Systems, Systems & Technology Group, IBM ASEAN
Francis Goh is the business unit executive for Power Systems in ASEAN, under IBM Systems & Technology Group, where he is responsible for the go-to-market strategy and for regional sales of Power Systems.
Francis Goh has been in the technology and financial services sectors for 15 years. Francis started his career in IBM in 1998 in services, helping clients to implement IBM solutions to solve business problems. Francis worked closely with clients in consulting and project management roles, helping clients with ERP and e-business solutions, as well as business process re-engineering to achieve positive business outcomes.
Francis moved to IBM Sales & Distribution in 2006, where he managed the Citigroup account, initially in Singapore, and then across Asia Pacific. In his role as Client Executive for Citigroup in Asia Pacific, Francis helped the client to adopt IBM solutions to achieve business outcomes, involving IBM hardware and software. He led the IBM team to successfully grow IBM’s business with Citigroup with several win-win partnership deals, despite the global financial crisis then. Francis led the IBM team in many successful initiatives with Citigroup Asia Pacific, most notably, the client's adoption of IBM Power technology in their large regional data centres in Singapore and Hong Kong, and also in Japan and Korea. Francis worked closely with the IBM team and the client to displace the strong incumbent competitors HP and Sun from the client's regional data centres with IBM Power.
Francis holds a Bachelor of Engineering Honors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore.
Mr. Erik-Jan Van Der Wurff,Principal Consultant Data Center Transformation and Cloud, HP - Asia Pacific and Japan
Erik-Jan Van Der Wurff (Erik) is an HP principal consultant for Data Center Transformation and Cloud, leading the start of large initiatives and customer engagements in the Asia Pacific region. Besides supporting the APJ countries with solution building and training he frequently interacts with customers via CIO summits, forums and one-on-one workshops.
Before moving to Asia, Erik worked five years for HP in Europe, driving the delivery of large IT infrastructure projects. His more than 15 years of experience in the IT started with several roles in internal IT organizations.
Erik’s approach to current challenges in the IT is solution driven, with an extensive knowledge of the different aspects of the IT in multiple industry verticals.
Erik studied Physics at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Mr. Raymond Goh, Senior Regional Director - Systems Engineering and Alliances, Asia South Region, Symantec
Raymond Goh is the Senior Regional Director for Systems Engineering and Alliances in Asia South Region. He is responsible for strategic engagements with customers in the region on their security, storage and systems management requirements, solutions and strategies. He is also responsible for the strategic engagements and joint solution development with global and regional alliances partners in the region.
With over 20 years’ experience and knowledge in the IT industry, Raymond leads the Systems Engineering community in Asia South. He also leads the Solution Architects team and has been instrumental in driving strategic deals to provide customers with the best-in-breed solutions across Symantec’s comprehensive security and availability product portfolio.
Raymond started out as a Systems Engineer in Malaysia with CSA. He then joined Frontline Technologies in Singapore as a Technical Consultant, and was later promoted to Technical Consulting Manager and Director of IT Infrastructure Services. During his tenure at Frontline Technologies, he was directly involved in IT Infrastructure Consolidation and Migration projects with major organisations in the education, manufacturing, telecommunication, and transportation industries, focusing on server, storage and, systems management.
Raymond holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Calgary in Canada, majoring in Computer Science and a Minor in Applied Mathematics.
Mr. Damien Wong, General Manager, RedHat ASEAN
Damien Wong is the General Manager for ASEAN at Red Hat. He is responsible for overall sales and business management for the ASEAN region, including short and long term sales objectives, channel relations, business office operations and staff training.
Prior to Red Hat, Damien was the General Manager, Southeast Asia, HP Software across the SEA region. He was also the Director for Service Portfolio Management in HP Software in Asia Pacific & Japan.
Damien’s extensive IT industry experience also includes technical and management positions for various organizations, such as Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore), Firium Solutions, and Accenture.
Mr. Gordon Haff, Cloud Evangelist, RedHatInc.
Gordon Haff is senior cloud strategy marketing and evangelism manager at Red Hat.
Prior to Red Hat, Gordon wrote hundreds of research notes, was frequently quoted in publications like The New York Times on a wide range of IT topics, and advised clients on product and marketing strategies. Earlier in his career, he was responsible for bringing a wide range of computer systems, from minicomputers to large UNIX servers, to market while at Data General.Gordon has engineering degrees from MIT and Dartmouth and an MBA from Cornell’s Johnson School.
Mr. Sivaram Shunmugam, Lead Solutions Architect, Red Hat ASEAN
Sivaram Shunmugam is the Lead Solutions Architect for Red Hat in Southeast Asia. He specializes in Cloud, Virtualization and Linux infrastructure technologies. On a day-to-day basis he consults with end users, system integrators and independent software vendors on how best to effectively design and enable enterprise environments using various aspects of open source technology.
Siva has a vast 10 year experience in the IT industry. Both end users and partners alike consider him a Trusted Adviser for implementing open source technologies for their mission critical enterprise environments. His experience entails enabling customers to embrace open source technologies in environments ranging from x86 based servers to mainframes.
Ms. Ng Hwee Ming, Virtualization / Cloud Domain Architect, Red Hat ASEAN
Hwee Ming joined Red Hat this year as the Virtualization Domain Architect based in Singapore supporting the ASEAN region. Before that she was previously with HP Software Professional Services (SEA) working with customer across the region on HP solution such as Cloud offering as well as ITSM and data center transformation.
Hwee Ming has over 10 years' experience in the industry covering a wide range of sectors from public sector, commercial, manufacturing, financial services and communication service provider with main focus in the communication service provider industry.
Mr. Francis Goh, Business Unit Executive, Power Systems, Systems & Technology Group, IBM ASEAN
Francis Goh is the business unit executive for Power Systems in ASEAN, under IBM Systems & Technology Group, where he is responsible for the go-to-market strategy and for regional sales of Power Systems.
Francis Goh has been in the technology and financial services sectors for 15 years. Francis started his career in IBM in 1998 in services, helping clients to implement IBM solutions to solve business problems. Francis worked closely with clients in consulting and project management roles, helping clients with ERP and e-business solutions, as well as business process re-engineering to achieve positive business outcomes.
Francis moved to IBM Sales & Distribution in 2006, where he managed the Citigroup account, initially in Singapore, and then across Asia Pacific. In his role as Client Executive for Citigroup in Asia Pacific, Francis helped the client to adopt IBM solutions to achieve business outcomes, involving IBM hardware and software. He led the IBM team to successfully grow IBM’s business with Citigroup with several win-win partnership deals, despite the global financial crisis then. Francis led the IBM team in many successful initiatives with Citigroup Asia Pacific, most notably, the client's adoption of IBM Power technology in their large regional data centres in Singapore and Hong Kong, and also in Japan and Korea. Francis worked closely with the IBM team and the client to displace the strong incumbent competitors HP and Sun from the client's regional data centres with IBM Power.
Francis holds a Bachelor of Engineering Honors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore.
Mr. Ken Sim, Cloud Solution Specialist, Hewlett Packard (M) Sdn Bhd
Ken Sim is a certified Cloud Expert and he has been evangelizing the Cloud technology since its inception to the world. Currently Ken is working as the Cloud Solution Architect for HP in the Technology Services Consulting arm. He designs and architects Private and Hybrid Cloud solutions for all the major Telco players in the industry. At the same time, he also acts as trusted Technical Advisor for customers in the Datacenter Consulting area. Ken graduated with a master degree in IT from U.S and he holds over 62 IT certifications on Cloud computing, Virtualization technology, servers and networking. He has over 12 years of industry experience working in the Server and Virtualization platform. He has completed and delivered many projects at enterprise level on the Virtualization and server consolidation.
Kunal Panchal, is currently a Solution Architect with Symantec Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. and based out of Singapore office. He is a product specialist for Symantec's Storage Management & HA/DR solutions working with technology alliance partners and GSIs in the APJ region.
Before joining the Symantec APJ team, he was at IBM Singapore Pte. Ltd. as Subject Matter Expert for Symantec's HA/DR product set. He has also spent nearly 4 years at Symantec Software Development Center in Pune, India where he was responsible for system level cross product integration of the legacy VERITAS products like Storage Foundation, Cluster File system, Cluster Server, Volume Replicator, Dynamic Multipathing, etc. on unix based physical and virtual environments and x86-64 virtualization like VMware.
Mr. Damien Wong, General Manager, RedHat ASEAN
Damien Wong is the General Manager for ASEAN at Red Hat. He is responsible for overall sales and business management for the ASEAN region, including short and long term sales objectives, channel relations, business office operations and staff training.
Prior to Red Hat, Damien was the General Manager, Southeast Asia, HP Software across the SEA region. He was also the Director for Service Portfolio Management in HP Software in Asia Pacific & Japan.
Damien’s extensive IT industry experience also includes technical and management positions for various organizations, such as Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore), Firium Solutions, and Accenture.
Mr. Gordon Haff, Cloud Evangelist, RedHatInc.
Gordon Haff is senior cloud strategy marketing and evangelism manager at Red Hat.
Prior to Red Hat, Gordon wrote hundreds of research notes, was frequently quoted in publications like The New York Times on a wide range of IT topics, and advised clients on product and marketing strategies. Earlier in his career, he was responsible for bringing a wide range of computer systems, from minicomputers to large UNIX servers, to market while at Data General. Mr.Gordon has engineering degrees from MIT and Dartmouth and an MBA from Cornell’s Johnson School.
Mr. Sivaram Shunmugam, Lead Solutions Architect, Red Hat ASEAN
Sivaram Shunmugam is the Lead Solutions Architect for Red Hat in Southeast Asia. He specializes in Cloud, Virtualization and Linux infrastructure technologies. On a day-to-day basis he consults with end users, system integrators and independent software vendors on how best to effectively design and enable enterprise environments using various aspects of open source technology.
Siva has a vast 10 year experience in the IT industry. Both end users and partners alike consider him a Trusted Adviser for implementing open source technologies for their mission critical enterprise environments. His experience entails enabling customers to embrace open source technologies in environments ranging from x86 based servers to mainframes.
Ms. Ng Hwee Ming, Virtualization / Cloud Domain Architect, Red Hat ASEAN
Hwee Ming joined Red Hat this year as the Virtualization Domain Architect based in Singapore supporting the ASEAN region. Before that she was previously with HP Software Professional Services (SEA) working with customer across the region on HP solution such as Cloud offering as well as ITSM and data center transformation.
Hwee Ming has over 10 years' experience in the industry covering a wide range of sectors from public sector, commercial, manufacturing, financial services and communication service provider with main focus in the communication service provider industry.
Mr. Bruce Lai, Product Line Manager, Power Systems, IBM Growth Market Unit
Bruce Lai graduated from the University of Melbourne in Australia with a degree in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, in 1993. He returned to Hong Kong in 1994, and joined IBM in 1995 as a Sales Representative for General Business. His responsibilities included taking care of the various clients in Manufacturing & Distribution segment, as well as BFSI (Banking, Finance, Securities and Insurance). He also joined the IBM RS/6000 team in 2000, as Brand Sales Specialist taking care of General Business segment.
In 2001, Bruce was promoted to Territory Manager, taking care of Growth Team in General Business for Hong Kong and Macau. In 2004, Bruce joined the IBM ibm.com Asia Pacific team responsible for business in General Business segment. From 2006-2007, he was the Business Manager for Power for Hong Kong and Macau, and his role included sales and market management of the IBM Power business. He helped drove the Power business in Hong Kong to historical high for both 2006 and 2007. In 2008, Bruce became the STG Business Manager for FSS (Financial Service Sector) in Hong Kong, before becoming the Client Manager for FSS in 2009-2012, where he drove his responsible segment of the FSS business to historical high in 2012.Finally, in 2013, Bruce took over the Product Line Management position for IBM Growth Market Unit for Power.
Mr. Daniel Pungky Sulistyo, Product Manager, Infrastructure Services and Solutions, Fujitsu Indonesia
Daniel Pungky Sulistyo has 6 years of experiences in IT industry started as a Project engineering, System engineer, Presales consultant and now as Product manager for PRIMERGY servers and Fujitsu System Management (Middleware)
He joined at PT. Fujitsu Indonesia in April 2010 and prior of joining in Fujitsu, he has many experiences with many IT implementations from planning, scheduling, installation and reporting.
Daniel Pungky Sulistyo was graduated from IT background and has been certified as PRIMERGY Trainer and ETERNUS Trainer from Fujitsu Japan.
Mr. Devid Casandra, Technical Consultant Pre-Sales, Indonesia, Symantec
Devid Casandra Senior Technical Consultant for Indonesia at Symantec, responsible for technical presales aspect of Symantec’s storage and systems management. In this role Devid is pivotal in architecting enterprise solutions in meeting our customers business objectives. Devid also spearheads Channel enablement efforts and technical skill development for Symantec Partners in Indonesia.
Previously, Devid was a Technical Consultant at PT. Sun Microsystem Indonesia where he was responsible for the system architect delivery functions for its storage products in Indonesia. Recently he also take SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association ) to sharpen his skill.
Mr. Bramaningtyas Trigantoro, Enterprise Architect of HP Technology Services Indonesia
Bram is HP Indonesia’s Enterprise Architect with more than 22 years of experience in the IT industry. He has designed various private, public, and consumer cloud for HP customers. Other than cloud computing, he also interested in developing IT Blueprints and Master Plans for HP customers which help them optimize their IT spending to align with the business. He has various recognitions from the industry, ranging from technical certifications, professional recognitions and sales awards.
Kunal Panchal, is currently a Solution Architect with Symantec Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. and based out of Singapore office. He is a product specialist for Symantec's Storage Management & HA/DR solutions working with technology alliance partners and GSIs in the APJ region.
Before joining the Symantec APJ team, he was at IBM Singapore Pte. Ltd. as Subject Matter Expert for Symantec's HA/DR product set. He has also spent nearly 4 years at Symantec Software Development Center in Pune, India where he was responsible for system level cross product integration of the legacy VERITAS products like Storage Foundation, Cluster File system, Cluster Server, Volume Replicator, Dynamic Multipathing, etc. on unix based physical and virtual environments and x86-64 virtualization like VMware.
