Singapore – Google Cloud has announced the appointment of Mark Micallef as its new head of business for Southeast Asia. In his new role, Micallef will be in charge of establishing regional strategy, team building, and overall revenue performance, as well as working with teams throughout Google and supporting clients in transforming their businesses and industries.
With leadership roles held at Anaplan, Cloudera, Citrix, and Trend Micro, Mark Micallef brings a great deal of expertise to Google Cloud. Mark has led multiple organisations in Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Greater China, India, and Korea towards growth and scalability with his over 28 years of technical, sales, and managerial experience.
According to Karan Bajwa, vice president for Asia-Pacific at Google Cloud, Southeast Asia continues to be one of Google Cloud’s major and rapidly developing regions internationally.
“We are excited to welcome a leader with a growth mindset and deep appreciation for the diverse needs across markets, as we continue to empower organisations to achieve transformative outcomes with best-in-class, AI-infrastructure, Mark joins us at a time when technology advancements are giving this region the opportunity to leapfrog into the AI economy, just as it became a digital and mobile-first economy that’s on track to be worth more than US$300 billion by 2025,” he said.
Speaking on his role, Micallef said, “With the current momentum surrounding AI, especially generative AI, business leaders want to know how they can make the most of this technology to transform their operations, disrupt industries, and realise new growth opportunities.”
He added, “I’m thrilled to be joining a company that’s been at the forefront of this field for over two decades, and to be leading a highly talented team across Southeast Asia as we enable organisations of all sizes to innovate quickly, securely, and responsibly with enterprise-grade cloud AI models, platforms, and products suites.”
Recently, Google Cloud developed collaborations with the Singaporean government, including the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the Smart Nation and Digital Government Office (SNDGO), and the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI). These alliances seek to promote AI research in Singapore and encourage the globalisation of Singapore-developed AI solutions globally.
