Speaker
Lionel Lim
President, Asia Pacific and Japan, CA Technologies
Lionel Lim is President of the Asia Pacific and Japan market, responsible for growing the CA Technologies business across the region, leading sales and support, managing overall operations, as well as building the partner ecosystem. The Asia Pacific region includes Asia South, Australia/New Zealand, Greater China, India, Korea and Japan.
A veteran of the IT industry, Lionel has over 30 years of experience. Prior to joining CA Technologies, Lionel was the President of Asia Pacific at Sun Microsystems. Lionel joined Sun in 1988 to establish the Asia South operations. Over his 22-year career at Sun, Lionel held various leadership roles, including COO for Asia Pacific, President for Sun Asia South, President for Sun Greater China, and President for Sun Japan.
Previously, Lionel spent almost 10 years at Hewlett-Packard where he held several senior management positions, and the last role he held was Director of Sales for Singapore.
Lionel has a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (Hons) from the University of Melbourne.
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Celestine Tan
Vice President, Regional Field Marketing, Asia Pacific and Japan, CA Technologies
Celestine Tan is the vice president of regional field marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. In her role, she is responsible for all aspects of marketing, from strategy development, demand generation, go-to-market plans and programs, partner marketing, market intelligence, online marketing, telemarketing, branding and advertising to event management. Under Celestine's leadership, the Asia Pacific and Japan marketing team aligns with the business goals of the region to drive the implementation of integrated programs to increase the market awareness of CA Technologies solutions and generate qualified leads to support the revenue targets.
Celestine has more than 25 years of experience in the information technology industry. She has worked globally in Europe and the Americas, and also extensively across the Asia Pacific and Japan region, including Australia, the ASEAN countries, China, India, Japan, Korea and New Zealand. Prior to joining CA Technologies, she was the vice president of marketing for the global software unit with Sun Microsystems. Over her 16 years' career at Sun, Celestine held various senior marketing positions, including vice president of marketing for Asia Pacific and director of marketing for Asia South. A veteran who has been recognized throughout her career, Celestine received the coveted Marketing Leadership Award from Sun Microsystems and was a graduate of the Sun Leadership Institute. Celestine was previously the head of corporate communications for Asia Pacific at Compaq Computers.
Celestine holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications from the De La Salle University in the Philippines.
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Francis Sun
Vice President, China, CA Technologies
Francis Sun joined CA Technologies as vice president of China in April, 2011. His responsibilities include forging the company's China business strategy, growing its partner ecosystem and expanding its coverage of the emerging Chinese market.
A veteran in the enterprise software industry with over 20 years of experience, Francis joins CA Technologies from Microsoft where he served as general manager of Greater China with the Microsoft Business Solution group. Under his leadership, the revenue of the group achieved high-speed growth.
Prior to Microsoft, Francis was vice president of Greater China at Citrix Systems, where he was responsible for building business strategy for mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as channel reconstruction. Francis also led the establishment of Citrix consulting services in China.
Before Citrix, Francis Sun worked at IBM from 1995 to 2004, where he held a series of managerial positions, including executive of Tivoli and Lotus.
Francis Sun joined IBM from its acquisition of Lotus. Prior to that, Francis served at Shanghai Venus Software Corporation in multiple roles as sales representative and project manager.
Francis holds an Executive MBA from the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from East China Normal University.
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George Fischer
Executive Vice President and Group Executive, Worldwide Sales and Services, CA Technologies
George Fischer is executive vice president and group executive of worldwide sales and services at CA Technologies.
Drawing on 25 years of IT experience in delivering solutions to customers' most challenging business issues, George is responsible for building and maintaining customer and partner relationships across large enterprises and fast-growing, emerging markets. He is passionate about leveraging changing IT demands to drive new business opportunities for customers and partners through collaboration, dialogue and respect.
George is also a member of CA Technologies Executive Leadership Team, which defines and ensures execution of business and technical strategies.
Throughout his tenure at CA Technologies, George has held several senior management positions. He served as senior vice president and general manager of Americas sales, where he was instrumental in developing and optimizing a next-generation account coverage model.
Prior to that, he was senior vice president and area sales manager for the Northeastern U.S. region, and he was an executive vice president of sales and marketing at iCan, a subsidiary of CA Technologies.
George joined the company in 1999 upon its acquisition of PLATINUM technology, where he managed sales organizations supporting the company's professional services, data warehousing, repository, and security product groups. Prior to PLATINUM, George was a senior manager at RELTECH, a data repository product and services company.
George received a bachelor of science degree in management information systems and management from Syracuse University.
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Trevor Bunker
Senior Vice President, Global Presales, CA Technologies
Trevor Bunker is the senior vice president of the Global Presales organization at CA Technologies. Under Trevor's leadership, 1,000 presales professionals play a vital role in aligning customer needs to CA Technologies solutions, ensuring customer satisfaction and success.
Previously, Trevor led CA Technologies Partner and Technology Alliance organization as chief technology architect. In that role, Trevor led technology thought leadership and enablement of solutions including virtualization, cloud and security solutions. The Partner and Technology Alliance organization works with strategic accounts to develop innovative solutions comprising CA Technologies products, services and education offerings.
Prior to that role, Trevor led the IT Transformation Group that provided solution architecture consulting services, and supported clients on data center consolidation, software and service rationalization, and overall IT transformation initiatives.
Formerly, Trevor was vice president, Solution Sales for CA Technologies IT Infrastructure Management solutions, and oversaw the CA Center of Excellence for this space. In this capacity he delivered demonstrations, proofs of concept, business analysis and escalation capabilities in support of CA Technologies sales specialists and technical consultants.
Trevor joined CA Technologies in 2005 with the acquisition of Concord Communications, Inc., where he spent almost 10 years in various roles. At Concord he served as solutions engineer for the SPECTRUM product line, QA software engineer and held numerous sales leadership positions in the North America and Asia Pacific regions. Prior to that, he spent five years in operations at PepsiCo.
Trevor has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from the University of Southern New Hampshire.
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Michael Denning
General Manager, Security, CA Technologies
Mike Denning leads the Identity and Access Management business at CA Technologies. He is responsible for ensuring the company's products, services and partnerships help customers minimize risk, boost compliance and confidently adopt virtualization technologies and cloud services by controlling users, their access and what they can do with information.
Denning joined CA Technologies in November 2010 from VeriSign where he spent 11 years leading several multi-million dollar segments of the business and increased revenue in each group during his tenure. He most recently served as vice president and general manager, Enterprise Security Services; he also led Digital Brand Management Services.
Prior to joining VeriSign, Denning managed technical services for global accounts at MCI ensuring successful network implementation and project performance for global customers. He also consulted for Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc., prior to his time at MCI.
Following his graduation from the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, Denning, served in the U.S. Army. He was responsible for planning the training of a 600-soldier unit and the operation of subordinate communications centers, for which he and his unit received honors.
Denning also earned his MBA in Information Systems from Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
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Sandra Ng
Group Vice President, Practice Group, IDC Asia/Pacific
Sandra Ng has been in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) advisory and consulting industry for over 18 years. While her technology research expertise is vast and diverse, she is best known in the industry for her Telecommunications knowledge and opinions within the Asia Pacific region. Her ability to discuss broad, strategic and converged issues across the ICT industry enables her to engage with many C-level management teams and technology executives in Asia.
In her current role as the Head of the Practice Group at IDC Asia/Pacific, Sandra leads a team of IDC's senior analysts with collective expertise across the entire ICT industry. This team leverages the core research created by IDC's Asia/Pacific Domain Research Group, through contextualizing the content and increasing its relevance for clients and their businesses. This value creation process enhances the proposition IDC brings to strategy, planning and market intelligence stakeholders. This unique delivery of research content also brings with it IDC's thought leadership analysis and business executive insights for marketing, product management, sales and strategic leadership teams within the client's organization.
Along with the Domain Research team, the Practice Group extensively collaborates with IDC's Integrated Marketing Programs (IMP), IDC's Industry Insights and IDC's Consulting organizations to provide a comprehensive scope of intelligence services to meet the diverse needs of today's dynamic and complex technology marketplace.
From research to IDC's customized go-to-market services (GMS) to executive roundtables and end-user events, Sandra and her team provide independent and insightful perspectives of market conditions, assisting clients in making informed business decisions and achieving business goals.
Sandra's role also extends beyond quality research content delivery. She plays a key role in driving forward-looking assessment and analysis, often sharing her market insights and predictions to Asia Pacific management teams and heads of strategy within her customer base. She moderates and engages extensively with the client communities, including both traditional technology buyers and increasingly influential CFO and line of business heads.
Prior to joining IDC, Sandra was with Gartner/Dataquest for more than four years, where she was managing a variety of IT research projects ranging from midrange systems to peripherals. In addition to base unit research, she was actively leading in channel and consulting work.
Sandra has established a keen following within the Asia Pacific media fraternity and is frequently quoted in leading regional business and trade publications such as the Asian Wall Street Journal, Computer World, Telecom Asia, tele.com and Wireless World, and also in locally-based media such as Singapore's Business Times and Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. She is often invited to present IDC's opinions on CNBC Asia, Bloomberg and Channel News Asia. Sandra is also a regular keynote speaker at global and regional ICT conferences.
Fluent in English and Mandarin, Sandra graduated from National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree.
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Subo Guha
Vice President, Product Management, Cloud Solutions, CA Technologies
Subo Guha is currently Vice President, Product Management for CA Cloud Solutions. Subo is responsible for CA's strategy, products and solutions for cloud computing. He was instrumental in the development of CA Technologies virtualization and private cloud strategy and direction and delivery of new solutions including acquisition of industry leading capacity planning solution from Hyperformix.
Subo has served in various executive roles for the past 20 years in the areas of Cloud, Virtualization, Automation, Systems Management and Server technologies at Dell, Egenera and NCR. Prior to CA he was a Sr. Vice President at Egenera Inc, a data center automation company, and an executive at Dell for 10 years and was part of the original server team that helped Dell propel into #1 market share and also responsible for the global Virtualization and Systems Management business at Dell.
Prior to his joining Dell, Subo was the Director of Strategic Planning for NCR's Computer Systems Group (CSG) and responsible for developing the directions for CSG's computer solutions. Subo Guha has a Ph.D in Business Administration from the Darla Moore School of Business.
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Lokesh Jindal
Senior Vice President, Service & Portfolio Management, CA Technologies
Lokesh Jindal is senior vice president, Service & Portfolio Management at CA Technologies. He is responsible for the overall success of the S&PM business globally.
Lokesh has nearly 20 years of experience in business strategy, consulting, education and consumer products/services. Prior to his current position, Lokesh was senior vice president of strategy and business development at CA Technologies Nimsoft business, focused on IT Management as-a-Service (SaaS). He also served as senior vice president and general manager of CA Technologies India Technology Center in Hyderabad, India.
Before joining CA Technologies in 2002, Lokesh was a principal with The McKenna Group, a strategy consulting company. Earlier, he was an entrepreneur in consumer marketing and leadership development. Lokesh holds a master's degree in f business administration from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France; a master's degree in marketing and finance from XLRI, India; and a bachelor's degree in technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. He serves on the board of iDiscoveri Education.
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Michael Sargent
General Manager, Enterprise Management Customer Solutions Unit, CA Technologies
Michael Sargent is general manager of CA Technologies Enterprise Management Customer Solutions Unit (CSU), a market leader in the areas of Service Virtualization, Automation, Infrastructure Management and Application Performance Management.
In his role, Michael has responsibility for the overall business unit strategy, product management, product marketing, solution development and go-to-market strategy.
Previously Michael served as senior vice president, Global Marketing and Industry Solutions, where he was responsible for the company's global marketing, strategy and portfolio management, and identifying and driving the cross-group development of the company's industry solutions.
Prior to joining CA Technologies, Michael was a senior partner and former head of the Communications, Media and Technology Practice at Oliver Wyman, a leading management consultancy. He has more than 20 years of experience in building growth businesses and leading transformation programs for his clients in the Technology sector.
Michael holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Haverford College and has earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
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Vic Mankotia
Vice President, Security, Asia Pacific & Japan, CA Technologies
Vic Mankotia is vice president for Security for Asia Pacific and Japan. In this capacity, he is responsible for growing the CA Technologies security business portfolio in the Asia Pacific and Japan markets.
Vic is a veteran in the software industry with more than 16 years of experience. An established sales leader with a strong track record in building the security software business in Asia Pacific and Japan, he has demonstrated his expertise in fostering strong customer relationships and linking sales teams with business units to ensure that security offerings are built around customer needs, including those in developing markets with managed service providers.
Prior to joining CA Technologies, Vic spent ten years with Symantec Corporation where he held various sales leadership positions. His last role was Vice President of Security for Asia Pacific and Japan, where he was responsible for the delivery of Symantec's security solutions across the region. He also served as the Vice President of Emerging Solutions where he led the Asia Pacific and Japan Pre - Sales Engineers and the Strategic Global Partners, and successfully developed five lines of business with market-ready solutions from over 30 Symantec acquisitions.
Vic has numerous industry affiliations and qualifications from the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) and Australian Institute of Management. He also has credentials in Supply Chain Management. Vic has successfully completed elite programs with Right Management on Leading at the Speed of Trust, and the Holden Groups Power Base Selling Program from IL, USA. He is currently pursuing another Masters in Business Administration from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, in Global Business Context.
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Michael Miralis
Senior Director, Growth Markets, CA Technologies
Mick Miralis is a Senior Director within CA Technologies' Growth Markets business. In this role, Mick is responsible for developing and executing CA Technologies' go-to-market and sales strategies for Service Providers and Cloud Computing in the Growth.
Mick has more than 20 years IT industry experience and has held several senior management positions at CA Technologies in particular within the technical sales and pre-sales organizations. He has also worked with CA Technologies' World Wide Sales organization in Asia Pacific and Japan, North America and Europe focusing on aligning enterprise management solutions to customer's business needs, and the delivery of high quality of service. Mick has experience in the telecommunications, Government and Financial sectors.
Mick joined CA technologies in 1996, working in the Federal and Financial sectors. In 2000 he moved to the US to manage the North East Services organization. Prior to joining CA, he worked at the Department of Defence in Australia, holding positions in development and deployment of major infrastructure and service management solutions.
Today Mick is working Globally with Customers to monetize the benefits a cloud strategy offers including the design and rollout of Cloud based service offerings, with a particular focus accelerating 'go to market' planning and execution.
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David Browne
Vice President, Mainframe, Software Engineering, CA Technologies
David has over 25 years experience in the IT sector and Software Development. David joined CA in 1987 and has served in Development, Pre Sales and Professional Services Management roles for CA. He currently heads up the EMEA Mainframe Solutions Centre for CA and in this role works with our largest Mainframe customers to get maximum value from their CA Mainframe software investment and to help steer future CA development efforts to solve tomorrows business issues.
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Mack Dai
Solution Strategist, LISA, CA Technologies
Mack Dai is the sales of CA Technologies LISA product line in China. CA LISA is a leading Service Virtualization solution. By "virtualizing everything" in the environment, with lower cost and risk, CA LISA helps eliminate delays, costs and risks imposed by dependent IT resources for development and testing, finally virtualize away constraints and optimize the entire application development lifecycle for faster time-to-market.
Before joining CA LISA team, Mack Dai used to work for Parasoft and Compuware, has rich experience in software testing field.
Mack Dai graduated from Tsinghua University, got a Bachelor's degree.
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Soojung Shin
CEO, SK Infosec Co., Ltd. Korea
Dr. Shin is currently CEO of Infosec Co., Ltd. With over ten years of experience in the IT security industry, he is one of the most famed IT security consultants in Korea, particularly in the spheres of information protection, privacy architecture, the establishment of security and risk management systems for businesses, and proposing the directions and strategies for the security industry and business organizations.
In addition, he is currently an adjunct professor at Dongguk University's Graduate School of International Information and has been lecturing on the subjects of information security risk management, enterprise information security architecture as well as guiding his students in the application of the related theories to actual business organizations.
Dr. Shin has also been the chair of CISSP Korea Chapter, after serving as chairman of the Korea Information Security Consulting Industry Executives' Association. Prior to joining the information security industry, he worked for Korea HP as SE and for Samsung SDS as an IT consultant.
He graduated from Seoul National University, where he earned his Doctorate in Engineering in Computer Aided Design.
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Jason Pope
Manager, Technical Sales, CA Technologies, Australia & New Zealand
Jason Pope is Technical Sales Manager for CA Technologies, Australia & New Zealand dedicated to Service Management, Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Business Service Insight and Security solutions areas.
In this role, he is responsible for the development of the Presales team, customer satisfaction and supporting the Presales engagement lifecycle. Jason is also charged with driving thought leadership and evangelism across the solution areas he manages.
Prior to this, Jason held the position of Solution Practice Lead for Governance, successfully leading the PPM Presales team and working with a variety of customers in ANZ across many industries including financial institutions, government bodies and large corporations.
Jason first joined CA in 2005 to fulfill the role of PPM Presales in South East Asia, based in Singapore. Over the next two years, this expanded to cover the Asia region both South & North.
Before joining CA, Jason worked for IBM Business Consulting Services specialising in Product Lifecycle Management, he also worked on Strategic Consulting, Business Process Re-engineering. This work was across Semiconductor, Hi Tech, Automotive Supplier, Automotive Design, Construction, Defence, Pharmaceutical, and CPG industries.
Jason holds a Master of Management from Macquarie Graduate School of Management, New South Wales, Australia and a Bachelor of Computer Sciences (Honours) degree from Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom.
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Bruce Liu
Sr. Solution Strategist, CA Technologies
CA Technologies of China, Mr. Liu Guoqiang is responsible for cloud computing solutions for the overall planning and delivery of solution, including cloud computing platform for building cloud computing protection, cloud computing service level management, cloud computing capacity management and cloud application performance and security management. Liu Guoqiang focus on the cloud and virtualization, deep architecture design and project management capabilities, especially in the public cloud, private cloud, desktop virtualization and application virtualization, and cloud computing, customers and the market have a profound understanding of and grasp. He has over 14 years of work experience in the IT field.
Liu Guoqiang previously served as Principal Consultant for Citrix China, is mainly responsible for the desktop cloud, server virtualization, desktop and application virtualization, such as pre-sales planning solutions, the sale of the architecture design, project management and implementation platform. Previously, he was in CA Technologies and Compuware as a senior technical consultant for network management and application performance management.
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Phil Tidmarsh
VP Solutions SWAT, CA Technologies
As VP of in Engineering Services at CA Technologies, Phil Tidmarsh works with enterprise customers to provide innovative answers to their business challenges drawing on CA Technologies broad portfolio of Enterprise IT Management and Security Solutions.
Phil has 19 years of experience in information technology, and he currently supports customers globally across CA Technologies Enterprise Management, Service & Portfolio Management and Security technology areas. Working in this capacity he is able to leverage his 13 years at CA Technologies where he has helped some of the world's largest public and private businesses implement solutions that manage users and their access to applications, systems and data across all platforms - from mainframe to distributed and mobile, virtualized and cloud. That background gives him a unique view of IT management operations, helping to ensure that everything is done with security in mind.
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Toshiyuki Misu
Deputy General Manager/ Chief Advanced Technologist, Global Carrier Cloud Division, NEC Corporation
Toshiyuki Misu is a Deputy General Manager of Global Carrier Cloud Division, NEC Corporation. Since he joined NEC, he has been engaged in software development of Digital switching system, Intelligent Network, VoIP, IMS/NGN and Service Delivery Platform. He is now in charge of Global Business Development of Value Added Services over Cloud.
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