Groups: Hybrid Event 2021


Chang Tsann

Chang Tsann is presently the Director for Dell Technologies Services covering the Asia Pacific and Japan region since 2017. He has held various roles in Professional Services and Consulting Services for IT Transformation Practice and Data Centre Consulting at Dell since 2009. He currently lead a team of Data Centre services solution specialist to provide multi/hybrid cloud transformation solutions, data center modernization, business resiliency and cyber recovery solutions for Dell customers. He has also participated at various industry engagements, previously leading The Green Grid Singapore, and most recently chairing the Tropical Data Centre program initiatives from IMDA.


Gustav Andersson

Global Business Development Manager | W.Media | W. Media

Gustav Andersson is W.Media’s Global Business Development Manager. A tech geek with great cross-industry understanding stemming from almost 20 years of experience in a wide variety of industries, ranging everywhere from IT-equipment installations, marine and offshore security to the Swedish automotive industry. In 2015 he set sail to Singapore to help setup a physical gold and silver precious metals trading company. He describes himself as a passionate writer, creative, tech geek, digital media obsessed, foolhardy freethinker, hobby philosopher and engineer. Eternally curious and positive explorer that considers the cloud and data centre space to be by far one of the most interesting industries in the current market.


Darren Yong

Head of Technology, Media and Telecommunications | KPMG | KPMG Asia Pacific

Darren is the Asia Pacific Head of Technology, Media & Telecommunications located in Singapore. He is also the Asia Pacific Head of Clients & Markets Development and is part of the ASPAC Leadership team.

A highly accomplished executive with over 20 years’ experience in Telecom and Information Technology, Darren is passionate about bringing emerging technology solutions to clients, to enable their digital transformation journey. Darren has led key technology engagements in KPMG which cover Strategy, Data Migration, Cloud, Blockchain and use case builds. Working with C-suite clients across the Telecom, Technology, Banking, Insurance, Life Sciences, and Energy and Resource industries, he advises organisations on Strategy, Transformation, Cyber Security, Data and Analytics and Cloud.

Prior to joining KPMG, Darren worked in the industry where he held key positions in companies such as Orange Business Services, Verizon Business, Sprint International, Lucent Worldwide Services, Siemens, and Nortel.


Christopher S. Street

Chris has over 20 years experience in the internet infrastructure space. Most recently, he was with STT GDC where he held leadership roles in Operations and Marketing/Business Development during their high-growth phase of launching the Singapore market and rapid worldwide expansion.

Previous experience includes acquiring and building technical infrastructure for Amazon.com and roles in product management, engineering and business development for Equinix, Switch and Data, AT&T and CERFnet.


Patrick McCreery

Global Head of Sales | Bridge Data Centres

Patrick leads sales and business development for Bridge Data Centres, which is the international business for Chindata Group. He is responsible for all customer engagement, partnership development and marketing activities for business outside China, and for promoting the China business to international clients. 

Patrick has over twenty years-experience in IT Services, telecommunications, data centre, and cloud solutions to large enterprises. He specializes in developing high performance sales teams and helping customers scale their businesses. He has deep IT market knowledge of the Asia markets including ASEAN region, China, India and Japan.  

Prior to joining Bridge, Patrick led Global Accounts in Asia Pacific for five years. His teams led sales efforts to Asia Pacific headquarter companies on a global basis, as well as growing business with cloud and content companies across the region.   Patrick held a number of sales management and account management roles at Verizon in Hong Kong and the SF Bay Area growing IT services revenue globally with banking, insurance, retail and high tech customers.

Patrick has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Illinois Wesleyan University and an MBA from Northwestern Kellogg – HKUST.