IDC Asia/Pacific Management Team

Sandra Ng is the Group Vice President heading IDC's Asia/Pacific Practice Group. Based in Singapore, she is responsible for thought leadership and deep-dive insights and advisory content on IDC's 3rd Platform disruptive pillars of Cloud, Mobility, Big Data Analytics, and Social along with C-suite (CIO, CMO, CEO, COO, CFO and CxO) research and tech buyer engagements as well as the Service Provider industry. In her role, she advises both tech buyers (CIO and LoB) and IT suppliers/enablers across the ICT marketplace.

Sandra has been in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) advisory and consulting industry for 20 years. While her technology research expertise is vast and diverse, she is best known in the industry for her Telecommunications knowledge and opinions within the Asia Pacific region. Her ability to discuss broad, strategic and converged issues across the ICT industry enables her to engage with many C-level management teams and technology executives in Asia.

Sandra has established a keen following within the Asia Pacific media fraternity and is frequently quoted in leading regional business and trade publications such as the Asian Wall Street Journal, Computer World, Telecom Asia, tele.com and Wireless World, and also in locally-based media such as Singapore's Business Times and Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. She is often invited to present IDC's opinions on CNBC Asia, Bloomberg and Channel News Asia. Sandra is also a regular keynote speaker at global and regional ICT conferences.

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Dr. Christopher Holmes is the Managing Director for IDC Insights Asia/Pacific responsible for leading the Retail, Energy, Manufacturing, Health, Government, Telecommunications, and IT Spending groups. Dr. Holmes is responsible for setting the direction of the research and managing the delivery teams. His research focuses on industry transformation, the application of new technologies to enhance business processes, and cross-industry learning.

Prior to joining IDC, Dr. Holmes worked at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech). Here, he pioneered the use of technology road mapping across Singapore, working with start-ups to multinationals, to help companies match their business needs with technology. Before relocating to Singapore, he worked in the aerospace sector in the United Kingdom and focused on process efficiencies.

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Avneesh Saxena is the Group Vice President heading the Domain Research Group in IDC Asia/Pacific, which includes personal computing, monitors, peripherals, servers, storage, networking, software and services research. With over 15 years of research and market analysis experience in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Avneesh is reputed be to one of the region's foremost opinion leaders in the area of datacenter transformation, end-to-end virtualization and infrastructure management and automation.

Avneesh is a frequent keynote speaker and panelist at industry events and global conferences. His views on the Asia/Pacific hardware industry have been quoted in most leading regional and trade publications such as CNBC, Bloomberg, South China Morning Post, Business Times, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Asia Computer Weekly, Computer World and Computer Times.

Cyrus Daruwala is the Managing Director for IDC Financial Insights. Mr. Daruwala and his teams focus on all aspects of "run the firm" or "change the firm." His research and advisory practices cover banking, insurance, and capital markets and topics such as legacy modernization and transformation, hybrid cloud, Big Data and analytics, customer life-cycle management, digital experience, ecommerce ecosystems, Internet of Things, cognitive, blockchain, and fintech.

For the past 20 years, Mr. Daruwala has been working with financial institutions to help them assess their business and operational and technical challenges, select the right vendors/partners, better understand their IT TCO, and grow their customer base. .

Tehmasp Parekh is the Chief Operating Officer of IDC Asia/Pacific. Mr. Parekh joined IDC in 1996 and has overall responsibility for the financial and business operations for IDC's Asia/Pacific operations across 14 countries in the region. Based initially in IDC's Hong Kong office, he is currently located in Sydney, Australia and travels extensively across the region working closely with the Managing Director of IDC Asia/Pacific and with key business stakeholders. Prior to joining IDC, Mr. Parekh spent 10 years in different financial, accounting and audit roles in various industries in finance, investment, shipping and manufacturing in Hong Kong and India. He is a Fellow at the Institute of Chartered Accountants and is a qualified company secretary. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from the University of Bombay.

Jason Gorud is the Group Vice President for Integrated Marketing Programs of IDC Asia/Pacific. He is a seasoned content marketing strategist with more than 30 years vast experience on data-driven audience profiling and segmentation, digital demand and lead generation, and sales enablement programs. Jason leads a diverse, talented team of digital, content and event strategists as well as corresponding sales and project managers across Asia Pacific for both the world's largest tech publisher & media services company (IDG) and IDC.

Larry Llamzon is the Group Vice President of IDC Asia/Pacific. Spending nearly 30 years of international expertise in sales, marketing, business development and general management, Larry is acknowledged for his decisive leadership, solid commercial acumen, exceptional communication skills, and strong collaborative ability across a cross- cultural environment. In his current role, Larry oversees leadership of the sales operations across 13 countries in the APeJ region, managing sales productivity, increasing sales performance, and ensuring a seamless end-to-end sales process.

Stephen Vass is the Vice President for Business Operations for IDC Asia/Pacific. Stephen is responsible for leadership of IDC Asia Pacific’s Human Resources, Publishing Services and Technologies, Information Systems (Infrastructure and Applications Development Groups) business units, along with facilities management and build outs, across the region. Being with IDC for more than 15 years, Steve has been a change agent to the organization introducing new initiatives, generating new ideas, systems and process, to improve business operations