United Kingdom
I am a technology evangelist at Oracle, promoting IT transformation, digitization, real-time enterprise realization, and cloud adoption. I was transferred internally within Oracle from Hong Kong to London in 2021, brought along with me a wealth of experience and lessons learnt from Asia Pacific, being a high growth economy. I currently work under Oracle's Core Technology pillar with a product portfolio covering database, middle-ware, integration, security, analytics, and IT operations. Prior to the move, I worked under the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure specialist team in Asia Pacific since its first generation of cloud launched in 2015, as a result of an evolution from Weblogic server platform. I have been a Cloud evangelist promoting Cloud infrastructure (IaaS) and platform (PaaS) technologies to help our clients in realizing their unique transformation journey to Cloud, drive up cloud adoption, customer success, and cloud consumption. I also served an industry domain expert at Oracle specialized in the consumer, retail and manufacturing sectors, leveraged technologies to transform various value chains in the specific vertical industry context. Prior to joining Oracle, I have spent over a decade in the enterprise applications and SaaS domains, as account and key account directors.
I was a Cloud technologist and evangelist at Oracle Asia Pacific since its first generation of Platform-as-a-Service was launched in 2015. I have a passion in promoting Cloud infrastructure (IaaS) and platform (PaaS) technologies to help our clients in realizing their unique transformation journey to Cloud. I work under the Oracle Asia Pacific division with responsibilities to develop and execute go-to-market programs, which support our field team to drive up cloud adoption, customer success, and cloud consumption.
Industry domain expert supporting across Oracle Asia Pacific offices, specialized in the consumer, retail and manufacturing sectors, leveraged technologies to transform various value chains in the specific vertical industry context.
A London-based niche privately owned ISV that offers AI-OPS based system and application monitoring software, made its name for their patterned non-intrusive technology optimized for critical banking service and real-time trading applications, such as algo and low-latency tradings. I managed a portfolio of accounts across both Sell-side (e.g. RBS, SCB, DBS, Daiwa Capital, HK Exchange, Noruma, BOCI, CICC) and Buy-side/Hedge Funds (e.g. Valued Partners, Man Investment, Flow Traders, Liquid Capitals), in addition to leveraging Thomas Reuters and SunGuard as alliances partners. A few of our business trips to Singapore was rather eye-opening. It was my privilege to be invited to some crazy drinking parties hosted by hedge-fund high-flyers nearby the trading hub, before we did some legitimate, yet decent business with Standard Chartered Bank and Daiwa Capitals in the same neighborhood on the days followed. My venture in the capital markets halt after my line manager left the company rather drastically in the capacity as Managing Director, where I also left not too long afterwards and joined Oracle.
After INFOR merged with LAWSON (Nasdaq: LWSN), it technically became the 3rd largest enterprise application vendor by revenue at the time. Hard to believe such a $4B company is still held by private equities. They offer industry verticals and domains specific enterprise applications such as ERP, SCM, PLM, HCM, CRM, EAM, ... you name it all. Manufacturing, Retail and Logistic sectors are Infor’s core industry of focus, and my key charter was to engage with business stakeholders among these verticals to position business cases which may potentially improve or even transform their enterprise processes, in particular along their "concept-to-consumer" and "farm-to-table" supply-chain. I was responsible for managing Key ad Strategic accounts within Greater China, i.e. Li & Fung Group, CK Hutchison, Dairy Farm Group, Smart Apparel Enterprise, to name a few, as well as major consulting project tenders and professional services sales in my final year there. During my 5-year service, I was proud to made $1M+ license deals, considered mega in their scale. My wife and I also enjoyed their treats of "Circle of Excellence" awards in the summer for a few times, only for those who have over-achieved their annual sales targets. A trip to the Italian iconic Amalfi Coast in one summer, as well as another trip to a resort in Arizona, have honestly brought good memories of my years at INFOR.
TIBCO (Nasdaq: TIBX), known for its "military-grade information bus" technology, was a market leader in promoting "real-time enterprise" using their robust middle-ware technologies in enterprise service bus, service oriented architecture, and enterprise integration. It was my first involvement in enterprise architectural design for tier one enterprises. Back then, I was responsible for driving alliance sales through deals, technology (embedded OEM) and channels partners recruitment and revenue management of their North Asia operations, covering mainland China, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan markets.
Inevitably part of SAP now, Ariba Inc. was once a high-flying Nasdaq technology vendor (Nasdaq: ARBA) during the millennium dotcom era, offered cutting edge B2B collaborative commerce technology which powered forward thinking B2B business models. I was both lucky and not so lucky to be in this center of action to witness the rise and fall of the dramatic dotcom hype within the Greater China market. Don't ask me whether I managed to vest their stock options in time, as you probably can tell from the fact that I am still being active here.