HPE Discover More Melbourne

Chris Troiani, Sales Manager for the Composable Fabic Division, responsible for Sales and GTM for the recently launched Composable Cloud and Composable Fabric technology by HPE. Since 2002, Chris has specialised in Hybrid Cloud Technologies, covering enterprise/global accounts.

Stephen Bovis is the Vice President and Managing Director, Enterprise Group, South Pacific, effective 1st Nov 2016. Based in Sydney, Stephen is responsible for overseeing all aspects of HPE’s Enterprise business in Australia and New Zealand.

Prior to this position, he was the Vice President of Global and Enterprise Sales, Enterprise Group across Asia Pacific and Japan. In this role, Stephen provided leadership and direction for the growth of Global, Commercial Enterprise and Public Sector accounts for HPE across Asia Pacific and Japan. He was responsible for building capacities through development of programs and solutions, enhancing selling capabilities and operational excellence and managing the P&L for these customer segments.

Earlier to this position, Stephen was the Vice President and General Manager for HPE Servers for Asia Pacific and Japan and played a key role in extending HPE’s long term leadership in the server market. In this role, he was responsible for business management, sales and strategy for the industry’s broadest server portfolio, including HP Moonshot, HP ProLiant, (the world’s number one server brand), HP BladeSystem, (the world’s number one bladed infrastructure) HP Apollo Systems, and mission-critical computing with the HP Integrity and Nonstop platforms. Stephen worked across HPE and with partners to ensure that customers of all sizes had access to the compute solutions they needed, from basic infrastructure to the most demanding business applications.

Stephen has been with HPE for 19 years and is an IT industry veteran with more than 25 years of business, sales, marketing and technical experience, under his belt.

Anthony (Tony) Smith is the General Manager for Aruba South Pacific, having been appointed to the role in early 2017. Most recently, Smith served as the Director of HPE’s Server Business Unit. He has over 25 years’ experience in the information, communications and technology industry with expertise across the vendor, reseller and volume distribution markets.

Smith previously held senior management and leadership roles at IBM, Lenovo and the Department of Defence.

In his role as General Manager, Smith is responsible for the growth and development of the Aruba business across the South Pacific. With his most recent work at HPE, Smith has a strong and holistic understanding of how Aruba’s solution complements the broader HPE offering.

Based in Melbourne, Smith plays an integral role in driving sales and growing Aruba’s channel partnerships throughout Australia and New Zealand. Smith is responsible for fostering the local growth of the business’ successful Airheads community.

Andrew has 20+ years’ experience in the IT industry across Asia Pacific in Japan. Andrew recently joined Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in July 2019 as the General Manager, Compute - Hybrid IT for the South Pacific Region. In this role, Andrew is Melbourne based and is focused on developing the go to market activities for Compute covering Sales, PreSales and Category across the region.

Prior to HPE, Andrew held a number of senior leadership roles at DellEMC (formally EMC) over a 9 year period. Andrew’s role with Dell prior to joining HPE was as the Senior Director, Global and Strategic Accounts across Asia Pacific and Japan for the Modern Data Centre Division, where he led a team of sales specialist cross the markets of Japan, Korea, Singapore, India and Australia. During his tenure with Dell Andrew gained a wealth of experience when he was promoted through a number of core sales and specialty leadership roles. Commencing with Dell as District Manager for Public Sector he went on to gain valuable experience as the Country Manager for VCE & Converged Platforms.

Prior to joining EMC, Andrew was a director of Public Sector and Alliances at Symantec ANZ. Over a period of 6.5 years with Symantec (formerly VERITAS) Andrew held a number of leadership and individual contributor roles. Commencing his career in the technology industry with Telstra, Andrew joined the graduate program and was promoted through a number of sales roles over an 8 year period.

Passionate about driving business outcomes and overcoming business challengers with technology, Andrew is interested in having conversations with industry leaders about how todays Technologies will shape the future.

McLeod Glass is VP & GM, Hyperconverged Solutions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In this role, he is responsible for all aspects of the product lifecycle across HPE Hyperconverged Infrastructure, including the SimpliVity product line.

Since joining HPE in 2000, McLeod has demonstrated a strong commitment to the HPE family of products. In his most recent role he was the general manager for the SMB server segment within the HPE Data Center Infrastructure Group. Prior to serving as the SMB leader, he led the HPE ProLiant product marketing team. He also spent three years in Taipei, Taiwan, where he created and led the Industry Standard Server developing markets and tower server product marketing team.

He has held positions in engineering and product marketing across multiple HPE business units managing server, storage and software product lines.

McLeod holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Florida.

Mr. Paul Haverfield is the Chief Technology Officer for HPE Hybrid IT technologies in the Asia Pacific region (APAC). In this role, he is responsible for promoting and educating customers, analysts, and media on all core aspects of data centre compute and storage technologies, trends and best practices. Mr. Haverfield was Storage CTO since 2010, and broadened the technology coverage to include compute in 2017. He also manages a small team of country based CTO’s in Japan and Korea.

Previously Mr. Haverfield served for six years as principal customer satisfaction manager for HP Storage (formerly HP StorageWorks Division) in the APJ region. His responsibilities included involvement in all facets of complex customer problem resolution. Mr. Haverfield joined HP in 1995 and has been employed in APJ roles since 2001.

With more than 30 years’ experience in IT, Mr. Haverfield has held many industry roles in both IT vendor and end-user customer organisations. Mr. Haverfield has enjoyed a very broadly-based, balanced and hands-on technical IT career spanning system management, programming, professional services consulting, complex problem resolution and customer support.

In November 2017, Brett Lobwein was appointed Data and Storage Optimization Business Manager for South Pacific at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Leading both the sales and category management team, he is responsible for driving business growth in the storage portfolio across the South Pacific region.

Prior to this, Brett led category management for HPE’s Data Centre Hybrid Cloud division in South Pacific. He started at HPE as the Cate-gory Manager for Synergy, Blade and Converged Infrastructure in 2015.

Prior to HPE, Brett held various sales and technology roles with Commvault and Cisco Systems in Australia. He brings over 15 years of experience in working with government, commercial and enter-prise customers across various verticals.

Outside of work, Brett is an avid scuba diver and an award-winning underwater photographer.

Stuart Long is Chief Technology Officer and Enterprise Architect Manager of Enterprise and Public Sector for Hewlett Packard Enterprise in South Pacific. Stuart is responsible for driving HPE’s Hybrid IT Vision and Strategy for top customers in Australia and New Zealand.

Leveraging the latest technology from HPE’s Hybrid IT Product Portfolio, Stuart leads a team of Technologist and Enterprise Architects in designing solutions that help customers transform their IT environments and align them with constantly changing business requirements.

Prior to his current role, Stuart was Chief Technology Officer and Senior Director of Systems Sales Consulting for Oracle Systems Asia Pacific and Japan. He worked extensively with Oracle Enterprise customers throughout Asia Pacific and Japan designing and deploying mission critical solutions in Telecommunications, Finance, Manufacturing and Government sectors.

With over 20 years of experience in the Asia Pacific region he possesses a wealth of knowledge in Solution Design and IT Architecture.

Stuart holds a bachelor degree in Computer Science and Business Law from Macquarie University Australia.

Dianne McGrath is many things.

She is one of seven Australian shortlisted Mars One astronaut candidates in the remaining Mars 100. She is also one of Australia’s most highly regarded experts on sustainability. Dianne is a Masters program lecturer, PhD researcher, biohacker, blogger, experimenter and director. She has a special interest in sustainable food systems, something that will be critical in a completely new environment for human habitation.

She holds four university degrees and is currently completing her PhD at RMIT University where she is conducting a first-of-its-kind food waste research project, Watch My Waste. She is also the Director of the sustainability and business consultancy, Food for Thought Consulting Australia, and recently Chaired the Australian Government’s Retail and Foodservice Advisory Board in the development of the National Food Waste Strategy.

Dianne’s work experience has provided her with strong expertise in project management, marketing and government organisations in her time with the Australian Energy Regulator, Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). While at GSK she won a global marketing award, and held numerous positions, including a global marketing position based in Europe where she was responsible for a $1billion (AUD) brand portfolio, and won a global marketing award.

Dianne is a leader, team player, project manager and creative problem solver. Her experience working in and managing teams in sales, marketing, emergency services and government provides her with a strong platform to work as a unit to deliver on outcomes.

Her sense of adventure, determination and fitness has seen her sail tall ships in the Southern Ocean, cycle extreme distances, jump from planes, and run marathons and an ultra-marathon.

Whether it is being part of the one way journey of the Mars One mission, or following her passion on sustainable food systems, Dianne is nothing short of amazing.

Paula is the Sales Leader for HPE Financial Services (HPEFS) for Australia and New Zealand. Paula is responsible for sales & and business performance of the HPEFS portfolio. She leads a team of financing sales professionals who create investment and lifecycle management strategies to help partners and customers flexibly acquire and invest in IT solutions to better meet their IT and business goals.

Paula has 20 years experience in HPE Financial Services, and has worked across various disciplines including Finance, Marketing and Sales. Paula currently resides in Sydney, Australia.

Paula is a CPA and holds a Bachelor of Economics and Finance from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

Ashwin Singh is the Chief Technology Officer for Communications Media Entertainment (CME) for Hewlett Packard Enterprise in South Pacific. Ashwin is responsible for driving HPE’s Hybrid IT Vision and Strategy for CME (Telco) customers in Australia and New Zealand.

Ashwin drives the business and technical strategy for the CME Customer Segment leveraging the latest innovations from HPE's Product and Solution Portfolio. His combines vision with the power of HPEs incredible innovation engine, to create unique value towards the communications(CME) industry.

A tech industry veteran, with more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Ashwin has a track record of success in delivery, consulting, business development, sales and strategy. Most recently, he was the Business Development Leader at Hewlett Packard Enterprise for CME and responsible for the NFV/ SDN business in South Pacific. Prior to HPE, Ashwin served as Senior Consultant, for Nokia, a leading provider of communication solutions. He has also held senior roles with Alcatel-Lucent (acquired by Nokia), and Lucent Technologies (acquired by Alcatel).

Ashwin has a Bachelor of Engineering in Telecommunications Engineering and a Diploma of Engineering Practice from the University of Technology, Sydney Australia.

Brendan joined Compaq in 2000 and has since held many senior roles across the HP and HPE business with experience in end-user and channel engagements to corporate/commercial and public sector customers across the Asia-Pacific region.

He is currently in the HPE Storage and Data Optimisation team focusing on Software Defined Infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud, Intelligent Storage and Data Security solutions. Currently in his role as Technology Evangelist, Brendan is responsible for thought leadership, emerging technology & trends, strategic business and channel enablement across Australia.

Andrew Ridley is the Australian and New Zealand Communication Services Providers (CoSP) Industry Development Manager for Intel Corporation. Andrew’s role is to assist the growth of the Australian Communication Services Providers Industry and ensure that CoSP organisations achieve value from their investment in Intel technologies. Andrew works across the entire Intel product portfolio, spanning critical network infrastructure to client devices, through to ultra-mobile and embedded technologies.

Andrew joined Intel in 2011. He is a technically oriented sales and marketing professional and has experience across a wide array of technology roles; from network engineering to marketing and product management. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Melbourne.

Mauritz Smit joined Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Composable Fabric Networking Business Unit Australia in 2019 as a Solution Architect. In this role he leverages his extensive knowledge and experience gained through working in South Africa, United Kingdom, and New Zealand.

Mauritz works closely with HPE Networking’s enterprise and commercial sales teams and the company’s partner community to drive technical engagements, as well as contributing to the overall growth and acquisition of new accounts.

Key responsibilities include driving Data Centre and Hybrid Cloud solution development and training with HPE’s customers; fostering technology relationships with complementary solution and technology vendors.

With over 35 years of experience in information technology, networking and telecommunications industries, Mauritz has a wealth of knowledge in network architecture, systems integration, security and management. Prior to joining HPE Composable Fabric Division, he held a number of senior management and solution architect roles with HPE Data Centre Networking team for 7 years as well as system integrators, designing and implementing solutions using vendors such as 3Com, Nortel Networks, Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco Systems.

Mauritz holds multiple technical certifications from HPE, 3Com, Cisco and Nortel Networks.

Darren Smith is the Aruba Category Manager for Australia/New Zealand. With over 20 years’ experience in the IT industry, working for Vendors, Systems Integrators and End Users, Darren has seen the IT landscape from both sides of the fence, and puts this experience to great use advising customers on IT solutions and emerging technologies.