As the SVP of Oracle’s Cloud Engineering JAPAC team, Alistair is leading a talented team with a mission to help customers, partners, and developers to unlock the unrealized business outcomes and value through Oracle Cloud. Alistair’s focus is on driving value for his Customers, Shareholders and for his People: Always! Alistair joined Oracle in December 2020 to lead a newly formed Cloud Engineering organization spanning a cross JAPAC Centre of Excellence and the Australia & New Zealand, India, and Korea teams. Six months in, his remit expanded to cover the entire Cloud Engineering business for all JAPAC customers. Before Oracle, Alistair worked at SAP for over seven years in various senior leadership sales roles, including COO and SVP of Services. In these roles, Alistair enabled customers to transform their businesses using SAP applications and worked alongside a robust partner ecosystem. As a global citizen, Alistair has extensive expertise supporting customers and leading teams across Asia, North America and Europe. He has been expatriated to the Philippines, Denmark, and Singapore. Having worked at Price Waterhouse, Ernest and Young, Unisys, and IBM, Alistair is skilled at identifying challenges and opportunities for customers and partners alike. Before working in the private sector, Alistair served as a Logistics Officer in the Royal Australian Air Force. Outside of work, Alistair is busy training for his upcoming Ironman race, dabbling with the latest technologies, or spending time with his family. Alistair and his wife, Karen, live in Singapore. He also has two daughters, Clare and Emily, who live in Australia.

Brenda leads the Industry, Value and Architecture team for Japan and Asia Pacific. This team engages with customers to understand their challenges, inspire change, design solutions and set a course for optimising future technology use. She has over 30 years of ICT experience focused on delivering quality outcomes to clients through using a pragmatic and team approach. Brenda has gained ICT experience spanning business transformation, enterprise architecture and interoperability of information systems. Brenda’s career began as an Air Navigator in the Canadian Armed Forces where she flew in maritime patrol in anti-submarine, maritime surveillance and search and rescue missions. Following operational postings, Brenda was posted to Headquarters where she worked in workforce planning and eventually held the role of Application Architect for the implementation of a new Human Resources system for Department of Defence. Upon leaving Defence, Brenda became a consultant at PeopleSoft/Oracle and had a diverse array of implementation and advisory assignments across Defence, Public Sector, Financial, Higher Education, Retail and Utilities clients in Canada, US, Australia and New Zealand. Brenda has been a board member for Women in IT and Communications (WIC) in Canberra. She holds a MSc IT from University of NSW ADFA and a BSc in Kinesiology from University of Guelph. Brenda lives in Christchurch NZ with her husband and 21-year-old son. She enjoys skiing, hiking and practices martial arts.