Fujitsu Asia Appoints New Head Honcho

Fujitsu Asia Appoints New Head Honcho

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Announced on February 1, 2012, Fujitsu Asia has a new Regional Chief Executive Officer, Gavin Selkirk, who replaces Lawrence Wee who left to pursue other opportunities. During this announcement, it is also mentioned that Selkirk will be working closely with the leadership team to focus on performance and accountability as the business looks to increase its market position in ASEAN and contributing to the overall Asia strategy.

Before joining Fujitsu Asia, Gavin served as the Corporate Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan of software provider, Computer Associates (CA). In his eight years in CA, Gavin held various management roles in Australia and Asia Pacific, where he played a key role in growing and managing the regional Asia Pacific and Japan business. Before shifting his focus to this region, he was based in the CA headquarters in New York as the Executive Assistant (Chief of Staff) to the Global CEO. Gavin was based in Japan and ran CA’s domestic business operations before moving to New York. Selkirk has over 20 years of experience in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry. He has also held key positions with Avnet Computers, SAS Institute and Vodafone.

Rod Vawdrey, Corporate Senior Vice President and President, Global Business Group commented, “ASEAN is a strategically important market for Fujitsu, as well as for many of our customers. We are confident that Gavin's experience will ensure that Fujitsu will continue to take advantage of fast growing technology areas such as cloud services, technology convergence and mobility computing to increase our market share across both mature and emerging markets with ASEAN.”

“I look forward to working with the team to develop and innovate from the customer's perspective while working in close collaboration with customers. I hope to capitalize upon Fujitsu's constant pursuit of innovation to help our customers address their challenges, stay ahead of competition and more importantly help them to create new business opportunities,” said Selkirk, who will be based in Singapore for his new role.

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