Data Center Summit 2009

Speakers

Confirmed speakers include

CLSA
Edward Scheckler
Global Head of Infrastructure,
Information Technology

Edward Scheckler has been active in IT management and consulting in the Asia Pacific region for over 18 years, originally coming to Japan in 1991 as a visiting researcher at Hitachi, Ltd. in the field of what we now call nanotechnology. He has held senior management positions in IT infrastructure and technology at Credit Suisse and Citigroup, and is currently Global Head of Infrastructure at CLSA, Ltd – a leading independent and investment group headquartered in Hong Kong. In addition to his focus on financial services, Dr. Scheckler has been a consultant to venture capital and private equity, the pharmaceutical industry and the Japanese government on topics including data protection and intellectual property licensing. Dr. Scheckler holds BSEE and BA degrees from the University of Notre Dame, and earned his PhD at the University of California at Berkeley.

Gartner Research
Naveen Mishra
Senior Analyst

Naveen Mishra is a senior analyst in the Server Research team of Gartner Research. Mr. Mishra primarily focuses on analyzing the characteristics of the market for enterprise systems in Asia/Pacific, including India, where he is constantly keeping an eye on the supply-side evolution and demand-side drivers. He is actively engaged in helping vendors to identify and target the emerging opportunities in the Asia/Pacific market. Being an infrastructure analyst, he is often consulted by Indian CIOs and IT managers on a variety of technology issues, such as infrastructure maturity assessment, virtualization, data center technologies and server selection. Mr. Mishra is often quoted in the Indian business and IT media on broad IT trends, as well as on specific items, such as virtualization and blade penetration. With more than eight years of experience in the IT industry, Mr. Mishra has been involved in conducting market research and providing research-based advisory services to vendors, as well as end users.

SMRT Corp Ltd
Jason Chin
Director IT

Jason Chin is currently the Director of Information Technology in SMRT Corp, providing executive leadership as Head of IT. He is responsible for the strategic IT planning/budgeting, IT Service management, IT Innovation deployment, IT Quality & IT Security management and Business Process & Support Management in SMRT group as an integral component of the business plan. He had accomplished to transform the IT to become a strategic business partner and enabler.

SMRT IT has won the 2009 MIS Asia Best Bottom Line IT Excellence Award.

Jason has over 15 years of IT management experience extending to a variety of industries such as financial services, retail, agricultural, chemical and education.

Frost & Sullivan
Arun Chandrasekaran
Industry Manager, ICT Practice, Asia Pacific

Arun Chandrasekaran is an Industry Manager with the Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Practice. He is a lead analyst specializing in Datacenter and Business Communication Services and monitors the various trends and developments in the ICT marketplace in Asia Pacific.

Arun has extensive experience in areas of Datacenter, Information Security, Storage , IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) & Outsourcing . Prior to joining Frost & Sullivan, Arun has worked for IT Services firms such as Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) , Fusion Technologies in India & US. At CSC, he was part of the datacenter team supporting Fortune 500 clients . He is a Microsoft & Citrix certified engineer.

Arun is a frequent contributor to regional and international trade publications and dailies. His expert views and analysis have been featured in New Straits Times, Manila Bulletin, Computerworld and Business Times, Singapore.

He earned his Bachelors in Electronics & Communication Engineering from University of Madras, India, and MBA (Strategy) from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.

Rhodia Asia Pacific
Kenneth Goh
Director of Information Systems Shared Services

Kenneth Goh is the Director of Information Systems Shared Services of Rhodia Asia Pacific. He is a veteran practitioner in the IT arena, and his cumulative responsibilities include a wide spectrum of management and strategic portfolios with a proven track record of creating a business-driven IT portfolio. As an integral member of Rhodia's ISF global management committee, one of his global roles is to lead in certain activities of Rhodia which is in full alignment with the corporation's Sustainable Development strategy.

Electra (S) Pte Ltd
Roy Lim
Operations Manager

Roy Lim is the Operations Manager for Electra, a member of the Jebsen & Jessen Group South East Asia. He is responsible for the Group's IT operations and Infrastructure including the Data Centre which supports over 40 companies in various industries within Jebsen & Jessen.

  He brings with him 10 years of experience in running and supporting the Group's IT operations. This includes establishing Group IT Systems and Infrastructure standards and directions; upgrade and maintenance of SAP systems for the Group as well as managing the cost of IT operations across the region.

EMC South Asia
Sal Fernando
Chief Architect

Sal Fernando is currently the Chief Architect of EMC South Asia and is responsible for articulating EMC's broad value proposition across all products, services and solutions to media, partners and customers from a business, ROI and technical perspective. Sal Fernando joined EMC Australia in 2004 as a strategic software engineer, before being appointed to the position of national technical product manager for Australia and New Zealand. Sal, who lives in Singapore, works across the region to build solutions to reduce cost, reduce risk and increase service levels for customers using all of EMC's product range (VMWARE, RSA, SMARTS, Documentum, Backup, Recovery, Archive and storage). With more than 22 years experience in the IT industry, Sal has worked in senior and specialist roles including Veritas, where he was Chief Technical Architect for Australia and New Zealand, TenFour Systems AG and Control Data. Sal has architected solutions for EDS, IBM, Telstra, Rio Tinto, Westpac, BHPB, Optus, The Australian Department of Defence, Macquarie Bank and Coles Myer, Temasek, NUS, HSBC, CIMB, RHB Bank, amongst others.

NCS
Wong Tew Kiat
Service
Delivery Director, Infrastructure Management & Solutions

Tew Kiat spearheads the Business Continuity team in NCS and manages Disaster Recovery (DR), Business Continuity Management (BCM) Consultancy, Sales and Operations. Tew Kiat was the President for the Singapore Business Continuity Group (BCG) from 2005 to 2008. He was a Working Committee with the Singapore Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) to develop the industry standards SS507 - for DR & BC Service Providers. He also sits on the panel of the BCM Auditors with Spring Singapore, to audit organisations seeking BCM Certification. Tew Kiat was awarded the Asian BCM Lifetime Achievements Awards in Nov 2008. Tew Kiat is a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) since 1997, a certification accredited by the Disaster Recovery Institute, International in USA for BCP Professionals, and Business Continuity Institute in UK. He has been a Member of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI) since 2005.

Avocent
Derrick Koh
Regional Manager, ASEAN

Derrick assumed the role of Regional Manager for ASEAN (Association of South East Asia Nations). As a former Senior District manager for Avocent Singapore, he was instrumental in turning around the sales' operations within the Singapore region and has thus helped to establish a stable foundation for future growth. His responsibility includes the redevelopment of the ASEAN channels and developing a new growth strategy for driving Avocent business in ASEAN.

Prior to this new appointment, Derrick was the Regional Manager for Globalstar Inc in Asia. Derrick has more than 7 years of proven track records and experience in growing sales in similar business development & sales roles with SingTel Satellite and Globalstar Inc.

NetApp, ASEAN
Sathish Murthy
Technology Consultant

Sathish Murthy is the Senior Technology Consultant at NetApp ASEAN. He brings in a wealth of storage deployment experiences over the last 9 years in various industry verticals.

Virtualization, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and IP SAN are his key Focus areas. Prior to joining NetApp, Sathish was a PS consultant at EMC, deploying storage solutions around South Asia.

Sathish holds a Bachelor of Electronics and Communication Engineering from Amrita Institute of Technology and Science, India. Read and interact with Sathish at http://blogs.netapp.com/aseantrends

Raritan Asia Pacific
Frank Huang
Product Marketing Manager

Frank Huang . At Raritan, Frank is in charge of Product Marketing Management for Asia Pacific. Given his decade long association with the IT Industry, he has in-depth knowledge of the Asia Pacific market and has played a major role in various new product introductions for the Asia Pacific market. Before joining Raritan, Frank was with EtherWan Systems, a US-based networking company. Frank is an engineer from Queensland University of Technology and lives in Taiwan with his family.

ViFX Asia Pacific & Japan
Damian Crotty
President

Damian serves as President, VIFX Asia Pacific and Japan, leading the VIFX organization across Asia and is responsible for creating and delivering Virtualisation and Storage solutions and technology to more than 50,000 Corporate, Public and Small to Medium businesses across the Region.

Prior to his current role, Damian was Vice President for Lenovo’s Relationship Business in Europe and also served as Vice president and Chief Operating Officer across Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Damian is experienced in the Enterprise Technology sector as the former Executive Director and General Manager of Dell’s Enterprise Systems Group for Asia-Pacific and Japan from 2002 to 2007. In this capacity, Dell became one of the largest independent providers of Enterprise Systems across Asia. Damian led that business across Asia and Europe for more than a decade, has been a member of the Senior Leadership teams across these geographies and his values are deeply rooted in solving business problems through technology, coupled with deep customer empathy.

Hitachi Data Systems
Michael Heffernan
Solutions Manager, Virtualization GSSD - Application Solutions

Michael Heffernan is the Director of Service Delivery, Asia Pacific, Hitachi Data Systems. In his senior position, Michael ensures a superior service experience for customers leveraging Hitachi Data Systems delivery methodology and quality tools. Specialising in enterprise infrastructure solutions, Michael has a strong technical and business background combined with excellent leadership skills. He has extensive experience of implementing storage services including disaster recovery and virtualization applications.

Michael manages and supports a team of highly skilled principal consultants to add value to existing solutions that meets the present and future business requirements of Hitachi Data Systems customers.

Prior to joining Hitachi Data Systems, Michael was the Infrastructure Services Manager, Flight Centre Technology, Flight Centre Ltd, where he managed critical infrastructure & services of the firm’s global IT applications and data centres.