Leading a team responsible for Akamai’s Web Experience products in the Asia-Pacific and Japan region. Driving product strategy and functionality to match local market requirements and championing regional needs.Setting technical strategies for Security, Edge Compute and Performance products for APJ.Owning technical relationship at an executive and C-suite level with strategic customers.Providing leadership in key projects, owning the overall success of projects and providing an executive sponsorship and leadership capability.Providing product evangelism and mentoring to Technical Professionals in APJ.Product owner for China CDN product.Opened up new markets in Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam.

IBM Social Business and Collaboration Solutions Technical Executive for IBM Growth Markets and APJ. Leading a team responsible for technical sales of IBM's social business, portals, messaging and collaboration, productivity, and unified communications products.Working with the sales, marketing, development lab, services and support teams, to facilitate new sales and successful customer projects and product strategy.IBM Growth markets Unit consisted of Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East, Africa and Central and Eastern Europe.

Responsible for:Setting the UK & Ireland technical strategies for Collaboration, Portal & Messagingproducts.Owning technical relationship at an executive and C-suite level with strategic customers.Providing leadership in key projects, owning the overall success of projects and providing a QA and leadership capability.Providing leadership and mentoring to the UK&I Lotus Technical Professionals.

Part of a SWAT team responsible for growing the local business for Web technologies.Successfully drove strategic customer accounts, enabled business partners, ran roadshowsand sales events.Represented IBM on the National Informatic Council to help them frame the IndianGovernment eforms strategy.

Joined IBM as part of the Aptrix acquisition, tasked to develop the technical capability in the IBMLotus Content Portfolio across EMEA.Responsibilities included:Sessions at IBM Software University, Lotusphere, Workplace Live Events and 3rd Party Conferences.Mentoring services team and technical professionals across the region.Briefing press and analysts on our content strategy.Leading the preparation and delivery to Business Partners & IBM, Sales and Technical teams for enablement and evangelism events in both WCM and related technologies across EMEA.Providing technical leadership on numerous key opportunities across EMEA

Instrumental in growing Aptrix from an Australian based startup to a company with offices in London, Boston, LA and Sydney. Created Aptrix, a product which was the leader in the Gartner WCM magic quadrant. Aptrix was later to become “IBM Web Content Management” a key part of its Websphere Portal portfolio. Aptrix was acquired by IBM in 2003.Architected and project managed a number of traditional and web based projects for large financial, telecommunications and government customers.Services Lead for Presence Online.Lead Architect for the Aptrix products (to become IBM web content management after acquisition.)Formed the product development department at Aptrix with the purpose to develop our services assets into the products Aptrix JE, Aptrix DE and Aptrix connect.As CTO set product strategy and acted as evangelist for the company and technology, speaking at events including IBM Lotusphere Conferences, and liaising with the Press.