Quoting from the official page at VMware.com, “The CTO Ambassador program is run by the VMware Office of the CTO. The CTO Ambassadors are members of a small group of our most experienced and talented customer facing, individual contributor technologists. They are pre-sales systems engineers (SEs), technical account managers (TAMs), professional services consultants, architects and global support services engineers. The ambassadors help to ensure a tight collaboration between R&D and our customers so that we can address current customer issues and future needs as effectively as possible.”
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With that, here are your Ambassadors for the Asia Pacific region for 2016. We form a small community and work closely together. There are only 28 of us spread across Asia Pacific and we work closely with R&D. Reach out to them via LinkedIn, Twitter, or their personal blogs. If you need their email, you can ask your local VMware representative.
| Full Name | Location | Blog & Twitter | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Travis Wood | Australia (Brisbane) | EUC | |
| Michael Francis | Australia (Brisbane) | PS Engineeering | |
| Daniel King | Australia (Brisbane) | PS Engineeering | |
| Paul James | Australia (Brisbane) | @prj32 | TAM |
| Greg Mulholland | Australia (Melbourne) | @g_mulholland | SE (Storage) |
| Roman Tarnavski | Australia (Sydney) | blog.romant.net @romant | SE (Cloud Native) |
| Chengkai “CK” Kong | China (Shanghai) | @ckkong_sh | SE |
| Sanjaya Kanungo | India (Bangalore) | vmpower.blogspot.in | SE (Global Alliance) |
| Sriram Rajendran | India (Bangalore) | GSS | |
| Sunny Dua | Singapore | vXpresss.blogspot.com @Sunny_Dua | PSO |
| Toru Kaneko | Japan (Tokyo) | vmware.10rukaneko.net @10rukaneko | SE (vCloud) |
| Yasunari Saito | Japan (Tokyo) | SE | |
| Iwan 'e1' Rahabok | Singapore | virtual-red-dot.info @e1_ang | SE |
| Tessa Davis | Singapore | SE | |
| Alex Zhao | China | PSO | |
| Cedric Rajendran | India (Bangalore) | virtualknightz.com | GSS |
| Chris Slater | Australia | PSO | |
| David Head | Australia | EUC | |
| David Wakeman | Australia | EUC | |
| Grant Orchard | Australia | grantorchard.com | SE |
| James McAfee | China (Hong Kong) | SE (Advisory) | |
| Joshua Lambert | Australia (Sydney) | PSO | |
| Junnosuke Nakajima | Japan | SE | |
| Kapil Kasetwar | India | SE (Global Account) | |
| Raminder Singh | India | TAM | |
| Rick Chen | Taiwan (Taipei) | SE (Network) |
Yes, this post supersedes the 2015 CTO Ambassadors list.