Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025

Prem Pavan is a seasoned business leader in the technology industry, having led and grown businesses across Asian markets for over 23 years. At Red Hat, Prem is responsible for the overall business management of Southeast Asia and Korea region. He was previously Vice President at LivePerson (a Customer Experience AI Company), responsible for driving the go-to-market strategy, growth and operations across Asia. Prem was also a VP & MD at Citrix, delivering profitable growth, productivity, market expansion and customer, partner & employee satisfaction. He also held previous roles as Head of business at Kofax and Software AG with a focus on Asia and Southeast Asia, respectively. Prem is especially passionate about evangelizing new trends in Human Centric AI, Future of Work, Digital Transformation and Leadership. He is a frequently invited speaker for a variety of industry and technology forums. Prem has made Singapore his home since 2004. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, and an MBA in Information Management.

Albert Chai is general manager for Southeast Asia excluding Singapore at Red Hat, with responsibility for the region’s overall business. Albert is passionate about supporting customers’ digital transformation journeys and collaborating with partners to unleash the full potential of open source innovation. Albert Chai brings 25 years of experience in the IT and telecommunications industry across the Asia Pacific region. Prior to his current role at Red Hat, he served as the Managing Director for Cisco Malaysia. He also held previous management roles at Acision Malaysia, a global leader in messaging and mobile internet solutions, and as the country director of Logica Indonesia. Albert was a recipient of the Malaysian Government’s civil service scholarship, and graduated from University College London with first-class honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Albert is fluent in English and Bahasa Melayu.

Supannee is country manager for Red Hat in Thailand, and leads overall sales and business development activities in the country. She oversees a team that works with some of Thailand’s largest enterprises on digital transformation, hybrid cloud, and infrastructure modernization projects. Supannee has over 20 years’ experience in the IT field, progressing through Red Hat’s ranks as a technical specialist. In her previous role as a Technology Lead, she worked with enterprise customers across ASEAN to architect, design, and implement cloud solutions in areas such as Microservices, DevOps, and Container Platform technology. Prior to joining Red Hat, Supannee held technical roles at IBM and CDG Group Thailand. Supannee is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events related to cloud technology and emerging trends.

Andreas is leading the Intelligent Edge and MSR vertical related topics for Red Hat across Asia Pacific. His hands-on experience in startups as well as large scale enterprise transformation programs has given Andreas a solid understanding of business drivers and value creation. Andreas has worked on a wide range of initiatives across different industries in Europe, North America and APAC including full-scale automotive JIT/JIS production systems modernisation, ERP migrations, HR, finance and accounting, supply chain logistics transformations and scalable core banking strategies to support regional business growth strategies. 
Since joining Red Hat in 2015, Andreas is focussed on helping Red Hat customers to build the necessary capabilities and to make the best-fit technology, methodology and architecture choices. Andreas is a published author on the topic of Technology Operating Models for Cloud and Edge. Andreas got his first Commodore 64 when he was 12 years old and started to work as a software developer in 1996 with Krauss-Maffei in Munich building full mission simulators. Andreas holds an Engineering degree from the University of Ravensburg, Germany.

With over 7 years at PT. Pegadaian, I am deeply committed to leveraging Agile methodologies and solution architecture to drive innovation and excellence within our Digital Center of Excellence. My mission aligns seamlessly with the company's culture of continuous improvement, pushing the boundaries of digital transformation by fostering a collaborative environment that values diverse perspectives. As the Head of the Digital Center of Excellence, my role involves orchestrating large-scale projects, ensuring seamless integration of cutting-edge solutions that enhance our customer experience. My recent focus has been on enhancing project management practices and refining our solution architecture to keep us ahead in a dynamic, ever-evolving digital landscape.

Ts. Fauzan Mohamad  is the Head of Enterprise Cloud Infra of Tenaga Nasional Berhad. Recognized capabilities and demonstrated experience in Digital Innovation, IT Infrastructure & Operations, IT Security, Enterprise Architecture,Project Management and Software Development accumulated in over 25 years of IT experience in Utilities/Energy industry.

Amy is a Specialist Solution Architect at Red Hat, specializing in automation solutions for large enterprises. She brings extensive expertise in business intelligence, analytics, and open source technologies. 

Anthony is an engineer, architect and passionate advocate for open source technologies, dedicated to solving complex, real-world business challenges through innovative solutions. He currently serves as a Regional Application Platform Specialist at Red Hat, with a focus on the Red Hat OpenShift Platform, AI/ML and OpenShift Virtualization.

Arup Laha is an Executive Architect & CTO with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology for Banking and Insurance industry. He is a subject Matter Expert in Microservice, DevOps, Requirements Analysis, Enterprise Architecture, Agile Methodologies, Global Delivery, and Data Warehousing. Now working as executive Architect @ IBM focused in Complex Systems Integration for Financial Services in ASEAN region.
 

Danielle is a Business and Technology leader with 20+ years of success strategising and leading Global FSIs and startups in various Transformation and large business initiatives. In her last stint, she was a Delivery Head for a successful Digital Transformation, transforming an incumbent bank with traditional ways of working, legacy systems to an award winning Challenger Bank. She had evangelised product innovation through design thinking, new agile ways of working with modern and scalable technology platforms and importantly, cultural change. This pure Digital Only Bank has the Third Highest Net Promoter Score within a year of launch. Having joined Red Hat’s APAC Transformation Office, Danielle’s vision is to help leaders and organisations globally build a workplace based on open culture, open practices and open source technology for the future. She believes that these are the ingredients to be a successful market leader.
 

Faruq Zafir is a Specialist Solutions Architect at Red Hat Singapore, focusing on Application Development and Platform technologies. With a solid foundation as a software developer in the banking sector, he brings hands-on experience in building enterprise-grade applications. He is also actively driving AI adoption and is passionate about helping teams leverage the open-source ecosystem, and AI technologies to build solutions that are scalable, intelligent, and impactful.

Gulshan has held multiple Customer and Partner facing roles in Red Hat’s journey of ~10 years. He has worked as Red Hat Certified Instructor & Consultant, then moving to Partner Solution Architect role and now he is a Specialist Solution Architect of RHEL in APAC. He is passionate about delivering solutions based on Open Source Technologies, mainly Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Linux based technologies such as Ansible and OpenShift. He has a rich experience in designing solutions for business applications use cases.

Piyanant is an OpenShift Sales Specialist with over 20 years of experience in helping client organizations across various industries navigate their digital transformation journeys. Piyanant is dedicated to helping organizations adopt technologies to modernize their systems, improve efficiency, and meet their business goals.

Rachel Ma is an OpenShift Specialist Solutions Architect at Red Hat, supporting customers across Southeast Asia and Korea. She leverages her expertise in Kubernetes, cloud-native platforms, and hybrid cloud design to help enterprises build, secure, and scale OpenShift environments, boosting developer productivity and operational efficiency.

Robert is a seasoned IT professional with a strong background in IT consulting, specializing in automation and digital transformation. With a diverse expertise in automation, cybersecurity, governance, risk, and compliance, Robert continually harnessed his skills to help organizations in the region bridge the gap between innovation and business objectives. Robert currently serves as a Sales Specialist for Ansible Automation Platform at Red Hat, where he leads automation strategy across the region, drives innovation and guides organizations towards cutting-edge solutions. Prior to joining Red Hat, Robert made significant contributions to renowned firms such as EY and Automation Anywhere, leaving an indelible mark on the industry through his relentless commitment to revolutionizing IT and business processes through automation.

SJ is responsible to drive the Sales for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in South East Asia & Korea. SJ Brings vast experience in the Infrastructure and Security portfolio. SJ has previously worked as Cloud lead in VMware responsible for driving the VMware Cloud business.  SJ Passion about the technology and being a customer advocate has been well recognized in the industry. 

Sandip Sharma is a seasoned technology leader with over 25 years of cross-industry experience in Financial Services, Telco, Manufacturing, and Government. As a Head of AI - APAC, he will spearhead the AI/ML and GenAI SSP team across the region, driving the implementation of innovative AI solutions for enterprise customers. Prior to his current role, Sandip worked at H2O.ai as Director of AI Solution Engineering for Asia Pacific and Japan, where he is responsible for setting up and leading the AI/ML and GenAI solution engineering team across the region. Sandip holds a Master's degree in Business IT from Singapore Management University. He is also certified in Data Science and Machine Learning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is passionate about building and running AI/ML experts teams and enabling customers and partner channels to develop direct and indirect AI led business opportunities.

Siva leads the Tech Sales team covering partner ecosystems across the Asia Pacific countries. Prior to this role, he led the IBM Synergy tech sales initiatives. Before expanding his coverage to APAC he held various positions in Southeast Asia running the emerging markets pre-sales teams, assisting to establish Red Hat entities across various cities and also held the position of Chief Technologist for Southeast Asia. Siva has been with Red Hat for over 19 years and has been involved in open source technologies for more than 22 years. He has helped many enterprises (and ecosystem partners) including financial services clients, telcos and public sector organizations as a key architect to embrace Red Hat’s open source software solutions.

Tham is technologist and AI Specialist Solution Architect at Red Hat Asia Pacific, where he works on architecting and designing Artificial Intelligence solutions for large scale distributed deployment. Tham collaborates with government agencies, enterprises, chip accelerators and partners to bring open AI innovation from community to customer driving meaningful impact and value to business. Tham has worked with top 100 customer globally bringing idea to reality through his years of experience with conversational AI, NLP, semantic search, LLMOps and platform engineering. As a thought leader in AI openness, he is driven by a deep commitment to the open-source community which shapes the development of AI building towards a more intelligent, inclusive, and future-ready world.

Thanakorn Intharat is a System Engineer at Veeam Software Thailand, specializing in data protection, high availability, and resilient IT infrastructure design. With extensive experience supporting enterprises across industries, he helps organizations modernize their backup, disaster recovery, and cloud-native strategies to ensure business continuity in today’s data-driven world. At Veeam, Thanakorn works closely with partners and customers to design and implement solutions that address real-world challenges—ranging from hybrid cloud data management to ransomware resilience and compliance. His expertise spans VMware, Hyper-V, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and OCI.