Head of Slack Solutions Engineering · Slack · Australia & New Zealand · Salesforce

Head of Slack Solutions Engineering, ANZ.I build high-performing SE organisations in regulated enterprise, with measurable revenue traction and APAC-wide playbooks.

GTM and technical leadership at Salesforce · Slack. 15+ years from hands-on enterprise deals to regional leadership scope across ANZ, APAC, and global programs.

I'm here to challenge the status quo.

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Executive summary

Technology executive with 15+ years leading Solutions Engineering and Applied AI GTM across ANZ enterprise. As Senior Director, Slack Solutions Engineering ANZ at Salesforce, I lead the regional SE function across enterprise, commercial, and government segments, with team quota carry of A$21M ACV and a focus on AI-driven workflow automation, C-level technical storytelling, and outcomes tied to revenue. Prior chapters span Citrix, VMware, AirWatch, and the founding Slack APAC SE cohort that scaled the business from A$4M to A$27M post-DPO.

Full timeline in CV (PDF).

Open to

Currently operating at L10 (Senior Director) at Salesforce. Open to equivalent Senior Director and VP-level remits across:

APAC, APJ, ANZ, or global SE leadership at scale
AI-era GTM functions where the technical narrative is the wedge
Experience in security-conscious, highly regulated industries
Function build-outs in series-D-and-beyond or established enterprise SaaS

At a glance

Scope today: Senior Director (L10), Slack Solutions Engineering ANZ at Salesforce. Leading senior Solutions Engineers across enterprise, commercial, and government, with A$21M ACV team quota carry. Emphasis on AI-driven workflow automation, C-level technical storytelling, and outcomes tied to revenue.
Cross-functional remit: Co-owning the agentic-AI customer narrative with product, partner, and customer success. Driving Slack-as-runtime positioning into Salesforce account strategy across ANZ.
Revenue and programs: A$12M plus incremental ACV influenced through enterprise AI adoption, POCs, and champion building. Founding contributor to Slack APAC growth from A$4M to A$27M post-DPO.
Repeatable scale: Region-wide demo asset library and SE onboarding adopted across APAC. Commercial SE expansion across Singapore, India, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand.
Regulated sectors: Data residency, Australian Privacy Principles, and APRA CPS 234 positioned as purchase drivers for financial services and government, not deal friction.
Trajectory: Principal to Lead to Principal IC in APAC in under three years. Promoted to Senior Director (L10) in 2025. Sales Club Winner 2022. Repeated regional top-performer quarters as an IC.

Proof and presence

Executive education: Harvard Business School (Leadership, Business Administration and Management); The Wharton School (Connected Strategy, Strategic Management); Deakin University (Bachelor of Computer Science, High Distinction).
Certifications & programs: Google AI Essentials; Salesforce Agent Blazer Champion; Navy SEAL Academy Certification for Strategic Leadership (completed 2025); Slack / Salesforce leadership programs (including influencing outcomes and situational leadership).
In the room: Public speaking and industry sessions on integration, collaboration, and AI: comfortable with C-level technical and procurement scrutiny.
Outside the office: Private pilot (multiple ratings, CASA): disciplined operating standards that carry into how I run teams and complex programs.

Personal values

Direct, evidence-led, calm under complexity. I show up to challenge the status quo, not protect it. Outcomes and trade-offs over buzzwords. Curiosity in agentic AI and modern collaboration is a professional habit, not a talking point. Operating discipline shaped by years as a licensed pilot, where checklists and threat-and-error management are not optional.

Public Slack GTM and SE perspective: View what I've posted on LinkedIn.

Field & culture

GTM leadership is not only delivered in QBRs. It shows up on main stages, with customers, and with global teams who share the same bar for craft. The photos below are from Slack, Salesforce, and Dreamforce contexts: narrative work in public, SE culture at scale, and the field reality behind the metrics.

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Presenter on a large conference stage in front of a screen showing Salesforce and Agentic OS narrative — Main-stage narrative: agentic collaboration, Salesforce and Slack ecosystem, and outcomes framed for executive audiences.

Presenter at a lectern with a projected Slack workspace and Claude AI assistant panel — Hands-on room: live Slack workflows with AI assist: how modern incident and stakeholder communication actually runs.

Group at a trade show with Slack sculpture and Staff Expert shirts, Customer Showcase signage — Dreamforce floor: Customer Showcase, Ask the Slack Expert, and global SE peers in the same motion as customers.

Slack Global Solutions Engineering team at Dreamforce 2024 under a banner reading where humans with AI drive customer success — Dreamforce 2024. Slack Global Solutions Engineering: the annual reset where product, GTM, and customers align.

Slack Global SE Office 2025 group selfie in a bright open-plan office — Slack Global SE Office 2025: the function is distributed; the standard for technical narrative is shared.

The first Slack SE cohort, large group on grass at sunset — The first Slack SE cohort: early-stage craft, later-stage scale; roots in customer-back storytelling.

Selected stories

STAR narratives from my story bank; happy to go deep on a call.

Founding ANZ Applied AI SE function (Slack and Salesforce)
A$12M plus incremental ACV influenced through enterprise AI adoption
APAC-wide playbook export: demo library, onboarding, M&A integration
Regulated sector and sovereignty wins (APRA CPS 234, APP)
Slack APAC scale-up: A$4M to A$27M post-DPO as second SE in the region

Voice

Direct, evidence-led, calm under complexity. Outcomes and trade-offs over buzzwords. First person when it is lived experience; specifics (segments, metrics, time horizons) when making a claim.

Archetypes

Operator-founder for technical GTM: hires and coaches SEs, aligns with sales and product, and stays closest to the hardest customer narratives: regulated enterprise, sovereignty, and executive technical scrutiny.

Superpower

Turning compliance, data sovereignty, and procurement rigour into purchase drivers: narrative clarity plus repeatable technical proof (POCs, champions, demo assets, enablement).

Positioning notes

Breadth across more than five distinct SE / pre-sales team contexts over the career arc, not a single static bench story.
Parallel team build-outs under time pressure, including Salesforce cloud GTM motions where Revenue and Commerce narratives both need dedicated technical leadership.
Comfortable where 200+ account executives depend on consistent technical narrative, demo quality, and global program execution.