Brian Parkinson

Brian is Director, Strategy, M&A, Advances Services, across Asia Pacific & Japan, for the IT Business unit of Schneider Electric. In this role he is responsible for strategic business planning and development. He also oversees the resulting professional services initiatives, new offers, and mergers & acquisitions that are required to support the execution of the regional strategy. His work on new offers includes thought leadership around data science enabled services that improve data center efficiencies, as well how to leverage baselining and assessments as part of continuous improvement.

Brian is an experienced professional with over 20 years of global IT and business development experience. He has held significant roles in a number of high profile organizations including Siebel Systems, Interwoven and JBA International. His experience with business applications and process modeling were tapped by Schneider Electric when he served as process and business systems deployment manager for the APAC region, helping two merged organizations unify under common systems.