Mr Par Botes is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Asia Pacific & Japan region for EMC Corporation, where he is involved in the evolution and advancement of EMC’s information lifecycle management capabilities, related platforms, software, and services. Mr Par joined EMC in 2007, with over 24 years of IT experience specializing in online transactional systems, very large data bases, networking, storage technologies and data protection. He is named as inventor on 18 patents pending with the US Patent Office and is a frequent industry speaker on system and storage architecture and large scale commercial systems. Par is based in Singapore.

Prior to joining EMC, Mr Par was the Director Technology Strategy, Data Center Management Group at Symantec and VERITAS, where he also held a number of management roles in the areas of data protection and storage management. Prior to Symantec, Mr Par spent eight years with Sun Microsystems, working with Sun’s Global 500 customers and partners, establishing practices for commercial benchmarking and system models for next generation system architectures. Prior to joining SUN Microsystems, Mr Par established himself in the area of SMP kernels, compilers and Enterprise Storage Systems with Data General, which has since been acquired by EMC. Mr Par has a degree in Telecommunications from his native home of Stockholm, Sweden.