{"id":22150,"date":"2016-04-12T12:37:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T04:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=22150"},"modified":"2016-04-12T12:37:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T04:37:17","slug":"netsuite-appoints-zakir-ahmed-vp-gm-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2016\/04\/12\/netsuite-appoints-zakir-ahmed-vp-gm-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"NetSuite appoints Zakir Ahmed as VP and GM for Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22151\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Zakir-headshot.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22151\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22151\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22151\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Zakir-headshot-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"Zakir Ahmed, Vice President and General Manager, Asia, Netsuite\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Zakir-headshot-233x300.jpg 233w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Zakir-headshot.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zakir Ahmed, Vice President and General Manager, Asia, Netsuite<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">NetSuite Inc. has appointed Zakir Ahmed as Vice President and General Manager, Asia. In this role, Ahmed is charged with building and leading the organization across NetSuite\u2019s offices in Singapore, the Philippines and Hong Kong. He will be based out of NetSuite\u2019s Singapore office.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed has more than 20 years of experience in management, customer acquisition and retention as well as sales leadership across the globe, complemented by a strong understanding of the Asian market. Prior to NetSuite, Ahmed was with TechnologyOne Corp, where he served as General Manager for a $50 million business unit. Before that he was with Salesforce.com, Microcell, CGI and Steltor (now Oracle).<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed\u2019s proven track record with midmarket businesses in the region will be instrumental in helping NetSuite to further add to its growing list of customers, including Scoot Airlines, operating out of Singapore across Asia and Motech, an automotive service chain based in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited to join NetSuite and help continue the strong growth and foster wider adoption of the cloud in Asia,\u201d Ahmed said. \u201cCompanies in the region are now beginning to reap the rewards of cloud-based software and, as the No. 1 cloud ERP system, NetSuite has a huge lead in providing a unified suite on which to run Zakir Ahmed, VP and General Manager of Asia, NetSuitebusinesses of any size and with multiple subsidiaries spanning the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsia is a key strategic region for NetSuite in 2016 and Zakir is well suited to the role to help us extend our momentum,\u201d said Lee Thompson SVP and GM, NetSuite Asia Pacific and Japan. \u201cZakir has developed a solid understanding of the diverse needs and cultures in this market. He recognises the significant role that both cloud solutions and NetSuite partners play in meeting customer challenges and will continue to drive customer satisfaction to aid our growth strategy. Zakir is well suited to lead high performing teams to bring complete solutions to our customers across Asia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NetSuite Inc. has appointed Zakir Ahmed as Vice President and General Manager, Asia. In this role, Ahmed is charged with building and leading the organization across NetSuite\u2019s offices in Singapore, the Philippines and Hong Kong. He will be based out of NetSuite\u2019s Singapore office. Ahmed has more than 20 years of experience in management, customer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[135,856,4255],"class_list":["post-22150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-netsuite","tag-people-moves","tag-zakir-ahmed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}