Gerard is the Cognitive Systems Technical Sales Leader with IBM covering Asia Pacific geogrpahy. He is a trusted advisor to clients who are on their journey to Hybrid Cloud, Automation and AI. He works with a team of client technical professionals and architects and is responsible for technical sales initiatives in the Asia Pacific region. He has expertise in Cloud technologies, cognitive computing/ AI, infrastructure solution design, virtualization, managed system availability and data centre consolidation. Gerard has a master’s degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.