Paul Kangro

Paul Kangro, Applied Technology Strategist, Novell Asia Pacific

Paul Kangro is responsible for providing technical leadership with regard to Novell's products and solutions to the Asia Pacific market-place and working closely with product development to ensure market needs are meet. He also provides direction to major companies on strategic choices of data centre technology, including consolidation, disaster recovery and orchestration. During his eight years with Novell he has been instrumental in the introduction of Novell's Linux product portfolio into the Asia Pacific Market and is a regular presenter at industry and tradeshows.

Past Employment

Prior to joining Novell in 2000, Mr Kangro spent 16 years in technical, sales, marketing and management assignments. The majority of his time was at IBM. He has also worked for Cable & Wireless Optus and Nortel Networks in technical, marketing and project management roles.

Qualification

• Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering at the University New South Wales, Australia
• Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management and a Masters of Management from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Australia