Speakers

Dr Ispran Kandasamy, Vice President & Managing Director, Asia Pacific, CommScope Enterprise Solutions
Ispran Kandasamy (Ish) has been responsible for leading and growing the SYSTIMAX® Solutions business within the Asia Pacific region since 2001. Over the past 20 years, Ish has built up a proven track record in research and development, manufacturing, and sales and marketing within the telecommunications and general communication’s industry. In previous roles, he worked for Avaya’s Connectivity Solution’s business as Managing Director for Asia Pacific and for Lucent Technologies as Director (Channel Distribution), based in London, for the BusinessPartner organization within the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. In the latter role Ish had pan-European responsibility for supporting key global accounts, building pan-European communication infrastructures as well as driving business development within the UK. Prior to joining Lucent’s BusinessPartner organization in 1998, Ish worked for Pirelli Cables & Systems in a variety of roles, including engineering, manufacturing and sales, over a six-year period focusing on the design and manufacture of optical systems. Ish holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Material Science and Physics of Optical Devices from Brunel University (now University of West London), UK. He is also a co-author of a number of patents relating to optical fibre management systems developed while working for Pirelli Cables & Systems.

Samuel Ng, Technical Consultant, Symantec Singapore
Samuel Ng is a technical consultant with Symantec Singapore specialising in the Data Protection, Storage and Availability Management solutions from Symantec. He is responsible for working with customers and partners to deliver Symantec solutions into the data centres. Prior to being a Systems Engineer, Samuel worked as an escalation engineer for Symantec Support for the High Availability solutions. In his spare time he likes to trek, cycle and play badminton.
 

Simon Ng, Regional Director, South Asia Pacific, FalconStor Software, Inc.
Simon Ng is currently the Regional Director of South Asia Pacific in FalconStor Software, Inc. In his role, Simon heads FalconStor’s sales, presales consulting, marketing, and implementation team for Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippine, Australia, New Zealand and India. As the pioneer, Simon has been with FalconStor since December 2005 and spearhead into the frontier of data protection solution including the areas of Continuous Data Protection, Tape Virtualisation with Virtual Tape Library, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. Simon’s experience in the field of Information Technology (IT) spans more than 10 years in various multinational companies such as ACA Pacific and Computer Associates, which provides him the breadth and depth into the technology of Storage Management, Enterprise Storage Automation and Security. Simon has a Bachelor of Commerce from Murdoch University in Western Australia.

Robin Liao, Technical Manager, Fortinet Asia South and Hong Kong                       
Robin Liao is Fortinet’s Technical Manager for Asia South and Hong Kong. Prior to joining Fortinet, Robin was the Product Manager for Cisco at Comstor Singapore with responsibilities for technical marketing and presales activities. Robin also brings with him considerable technical experience from his 10 years of extensive career in networking and security environments. He has also previous experience with products such as Packeteer, F5 and  Netscreen. Robin is a graduate of RMIT in Melbourne, Australia. He majored in Applied Science for IT.