Mark Micallef Named As MD Of Google Cloud's SEA Division

Mark Micallef has been appointed as Managing Director of Google Cloud's Southeast Asia unit. Mark will be in charge of driving regional strategy, direction, team development, and overall revenue performance for Google Cloud and Google Workspace, as well as collaborating with teams across Google to assist customers in reimagining their businesses and industries through bold and responsible artificial intelligence (AI) innovation.

Mark will report to Karan Bajwa, Google Cloud's Vice President of Asia Pacific. He comes to Google Cloud with more than 28 years of technical, sales, and management expertise from Anaplan, Cloudera, Citrix, and Trend Micro. Across his career in technology leadership, Mark has helped multiple businesses grow and scale in Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Japan, Greater China, India, and Korea.

“Southeast Asia continues to be one of Google Cloud’s most important and high growth regions globally. Mark joins us at a time where technology advancements are presenting this region with the opportunity to leapfrog into the AI economy – the same way it became a digital and mobile-first economy that’s on track to be worth more than US$300 billion by 2025,” said Karan Bajwa, Vice President, Asia Pacific, Google Cloud. "We are excited to welcome a leader with a growth mindset and deep appreciation of the diverse needs across markets, as we continue to empower organizations to achieve transformative outcomes with best-in-class, AI-infused solutions for data, infrastructure, productivity, and security.”

“With the current momentum surrounding AI, especially generative AI, business leaders want to know how they can make the most of this technology to transform their operations, disrupt industries, and realise new growth opportunities,” said Mark Micallef, Managing Director, Southeast Asia, Google Cloud. “I’m thrilled to be joining a company that’s been at the forefront of this field for over two decades, and to be leading a highly talented team across Southeast Asia as we enable organizations of all sizes to innovate quickly, securely, and responsibly with enterprise-grade cloud AI models, platforms, and products suites.”