BIO

Charles (Charlie) Nikiel has 25+ years experience in high-tech in technical, marketing, general management & executive roles. He has spent his last 6 years with salesforce as Vice President of Marketing salesforce.com Asia Pacific & Japan, responsible for driving all marketing in the region for the company’s cloud services, including PR, events, online, digital, social, campaigns & product. Prior to joining salesforce, Charlie spent 3 years in the Senior Marketing Director position at Symantec Japan, formulating Symantec Japan’s go-to-market strategy and executing on the strategy with field, solutions, communications, customer experience & product marketing. His responsibilities covered all market segments including consumer and enterprise. Before Symantec, he was with Unisys Corporation for 15 years -- 2 years as a member of the board of Nihon Unisys, responsible for all product, sourcing & development, and 5 years as Representative Director and General Manager of Unisys Japan Ltd, with business plan responsibility for Unisys revenue/profit & ROI in Japan, and business relations in the Japanese market. Charlie was born in Australia and graduated from Australian National University with a degree in Science and a major in Computer Sciences. He started his career for 8 yrs in Australia as Systems & Marketing Support Engineer at Burroughs Corp. Australia.