As Splunk’s Chief Technical Advisor APAC, Dan is responsible for being Splunk’s executive technical advisor and business technologist to Splunk customers and partners in Asia helping them develop their data strategies and transformation journeys to drive business outcomes with their biggest asset, data. Dan is also responsible for driving Splunk’s Data-2-Everything vision and for providing strategic and tactical vision to the technology team driving business growth.

Dan has over 25 years of industry experience of which 15 years has been spent in Asia helping enterprise customers leverage technology as a competitive advantage. Prior to joining Splunk, Dan worked at Dell Technologies leading their Global Transformation Office in Asia helping enterprise clients with their IT / Cloud transformation journeys leveraging data, cloud and key technology adoption like software defined DC’s, data consolidation, app modernization and multi cloud acceleration to drive business outcomes.

Before that Dan was running Dell’s Big Data Analytics Practice across Asia. Previously Dan has also run his own Big Data Analytics Start-up along with working for 5 leading global investment banks over the years. Dan has served and held a variety of leadership and management roles in sales, business development, consulting, delivery, support and project management over the years and is super passionate about spending all his time with customers and helping thrive in the data age.

Dan has a deep understanding of how data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and decision-making in constantly evolving environments, and technology are used to address some of today’s biggest business challenges. Dan is a highly passionate business centric, and inspirational thought leader and can be often found speaking at industry wide technology events across Asia.