Frank brings in more than two decades of experience in the field of open source. Under his leadership the APAC Technology office addresses APAC business requirements and strives to better align our technology agenda and message across the BU's, sales and customer landscape.
Prior to this role, Frank was also the Senior Director, Strategic Business Development, where he was responsible for the growth of all Red Hat non-RHEL (Linux) products and solution offerings in Asia Pacific.

Frank has held other successful leadership roles in Red Hat since 2008, ranging from marketing, strategic sales, field enablement to product management.

Prior to Red Hat, Frank worked at Novell Asia Pacific in the role of Technical Alliance Manager. He was responsible for technical relationships with IBM, Hewlett Packard and Dell. Prior to relocating to Asia, Frank co-owned and managed a Java services company in the Netherlands specializing in JBoss Middleware technology.

Frank has a business degree in computer science and economics and has been instrumental in many product and technology shaping activities throughout his career.