Chief Marketing Officer
CurrentHe drives sales and marketing strategy for the company’s innovative privacy solutions to enable market traction globally. Straits Interactive today has rocketed to be a market leader since its launch in 2013 in the space of Personal Data Protection compliance and Do Not Call management. It also has the fastest growing community of Data Protection and GRC professionals in ASEAN , the Data Protection Excellence Network with an ecosystem of luminary partners. Regionally, he has also trained hundreds of business people and companies in PDPA and GRC and give talks to C levels on latest trends.Straits Interactive' innovative methodology and technology accelerates Data Protection and GRC, consulting, training. This pioneering compliance automation SAAS have made operational compliance practices more accessible to many firms regionally, with the latest cloud computing and intelligent machine learning.With more than 20 years of high-level sales and marketing experience in technology sector across the region, he has had a successful career spanning Enterprise Sales, Strategic-Selling and Regional Channel Sales covering multiple industries as well as managing a marketing consulting company.Alvin was formerly a Sales Director at Sun Microsystems where he managed a $100 million sales portfolio in the highly competitive industries of Finance, Telecoms, Healthcare and Government and Regional Director and Asia Pac Head of Channels at 3Com. Having worked in regulated markets and in MNCs, he is fully aware of the compliance requirements and the need for Personal Data Protection to facilitate a high level of trust.He also ran ThinkAccelerator Marketing that helped companies on multichannel sales and marketing leveraging new media and tools that are data driven and provided deeper insights for more effective reach.Alvin has spoken at many IT conferences and has conducted numerous workshops for both C-level executives covering PDPA, DNC and Sales, and Marketing.