Speaker Details

"Winning Strategies of Empowered CIOs in Asia/Pacific" IDC's Asia/Pacific CIO Summit 2009 Conference June 25, 2009 JW Marriott Hotel, Hong Kong June 25, 2009 JW Marriott Hotel, Hong Kong July 24, 2009 Grand Hyatt, Taipei, Taiwan July 14, 2009 Marriott Hotel, Singapore August 19, 2009 Swissotel, Beijing, China July 21 - 22, 2009 Hyatt Hotel, Auckland, New Zealand October 15, 2009 The Westin Grande Sukhumvit, Ballroom B, Bangkok, Thailand July 23, 2009 The Westin, Sydney, Australia   Stand to win a Lenovo Ideapad Lite S10 PC* worth HK$3499 when you attend this event! * This raffle is open to all delegates attending IDC's Asia/Pacific CIO Summit 2009 in Hong Kong. All attendees have to submit a business card upon arrival to participate in the draw and the winner must be present during the draw to qualify

Paul Serrano
Senior Director Marketing, APAC & Japan, Riverbed

Mr. Serrano has more than 30 years of experience in the networking and security arena and has extensive experience in sales, marketing and business development.  Prior to Riverbed he served as VP of Marketing APAC for CipherTrust (acquired by Secure Computing Corp).   Mr. Serrano performed as Director for security products marketing for Juniper Networks via the acquisition of NetScreen Technologies where he held a variety of senior management positions, including Sr. director of product management (USA) and Sr director of marketing APAC.  Prior to NetScreen, he was director of business development at Bell Labs Research.

Serrano also co-founded and served as CEO for Network Tools.  He served in senior positions in sales, marketing and product management at start-up SynOptics Communications/Bay Networks (acquired by Nortel). He was vice president at the HSBC banking corporation as well as serving in senior management roles at JP Morgan Bank and Citibank.  Serrano spent nine years with the US Air Force and was responsible for the planning, design, installation and deployment of large-scale communication systems, including satellite systems, fiber optics, voice and data systems, cryptographic systems and wireless communications.  He is a member and participant in the IEEE and IETF forums.