Return to Gartner for new Asia Pacific VP events

Staff Writers
Tuesday, 10 February 2009 09:42

IT Industry - Market

Global technology research and advisory firm Gartner has appointed Sydney-based Peter Wilson as regional vice president, Events in Asia Pacific and Japan. Prior to joining Gartner, Wilson had more than 28 years marketing and sales experience in the IT industry, including as director of marketing and alliances for KAZ, the IT services arm of Telstra, where he helped lead the company's go-to-market strategy and alliance programs. He also worked in a strategic marketing consultancy, Marketing Central, assisting IT and telecommunications clients expand in the Asia Pacific region.

Reporting to Gartner's global head of Events, Alwyn Dawkins, Peter Wilson will be responsible for a team managing event logistics and operations, sponsor and delegate acquisition, delivery, marketing and administration.

This is Peter Wilson’s second time working for Gartner, having previously worked as the firm’s Asia Pacific regional vice president of marketing from 1999 to 2004. He also held senior management roles with Dell as marketing manager and vice president of marketing for NCR.

Announcing Wilson’s appointment, a spokesperson for Gartner, Susan Moore, said this year the company would host 11 major events in Asia Pacific and Japan, including a Business Intelligence & Information Management Summit this month in Sydney (Feb 24-25) and three other Sydney events - Infrastructure & Operations Data Centre Summit (May 5 – 6), Applications: Trends & Technologies Summit (June 16 – 17) and an IT Security Summit Sept. (15 – 16).