Brocade names new VP for Asia Pacific
- 20-year industry vet worked with IBM, Compaq and others
- Sees possibility in big records analytics, the cloud
BROCADE has appointed Charlie Foo (percent) to the position of vice-president for Asia Pacific powerful without delay, the networking solutions issuer said in a assertion.
Foo succeeds Deb Dutta and might be responsible for charting the company’s standard increase method across the location. He can be based in Singapore reporting at once into Ian Whiting, senior vice-president of Worldwide Sales.
>An industry veteran with extra than 20 years of income control and leadership revel in, Foo became most currently senior director of the Brocade Partner Business Group for APAC wherein he drove the agency’s regional commercial enterprise method for growth and diversification, and led the partner strategy with distributors, resellers, OEMs and worldwide systems integrators throughout the vicinity.
He joined Brocade in January 2007. Prior to becoming a member of Brocade, Foo was nearby director of Channel and Alliance for Asia Pacific/Japan at Veritas-Symantec. He also assumed senior local management positions at IBM Corp (software Group, Asia Pacific), Compaq Computers Asia/Pacific and Singapore Computer Systems. He holds an MBA from the University of Dubuque, Iowa.
“I am excited to take in this new position to assist further our success throughout the place with the aid of operating carefully with our customers and companions,” he said.
“We are searching forward to the opportunities that APAC brings in 2012, particularly in areas of big statistics analytics and cloud offerings wherein spending is predicted to increase for the transport of agile commercial enterprise services,” he said.