We are a global network of operating executives with a track record of success developing businesses in a variety of markets
Founders
Michael Rawding
Paris
Michael has advised dozens of technology companies on global expansion since GeoFusion's inception in 2018. As a multicutural business leader, Michael has served as Microsoft's President in APAC, Greater China, and Japan, and was a Consultant with Spencer Stuart.
Mike Chao
Salt Lake City
Mike has over 20 years of experience working with multinationals in China / Asia, with a focus on GTM and business development. He has held leadership positions at Microsoft, The Boston Consulting Group, and most recently Dolby Laboratories, where he managed their Greater China and APAC businesses.
Europe
Christophe Aulnette
Paris
Christophe is Senior Advisor at Apax Partners. He has more than 30 years of experience across Europe and Asia within the broad technology sector. His previous roles include leading Microsoft South Asia, President of Microsoft France, CEO of Altran, and CEO of Netgem in France and Singapore.
Charbel Fakhoury
Dubai
Charbel is a strategic business leader with a track record of outstanding results in managing global businesses at scale with a customer centric mindset. He held multiple GM and VP positions at Microsoft MEA, EMEA, and Corp HQ. Charbel is a co-founder of a tech-startup investment company, and an advisory board member of both academic and non-profit organizations.
John Kinson
London
John has spent 30 years growing venture-backed businesses in the US and Europe from Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, and GV, as well as leading global teams within large enterprises such as IBM. He has deep technology expertise in cloud-native architecture, ML/AI, and data streaming platforms, and specializes in GTM function build out and operations excellence.
Dalit Krainer
Tel Aviv
Dalit has deep expertise in aligning organizational and human capital strategy with global business strategy. Over her 25-year career, she has held several executive HR positions at global companies including Amdocs and Checkmarx. She has a passion for designing, deploying and enabling organizational culture, and working closely with business leaders to achieve sustainable business growth.
Benoit Van Thienen
Barcelona
Benoit spent nearly three decades at Microsoft in EMEA and APAC before settling back in Europe as an Advisor at Mitiga and Positive Thinking Company. He excels in working with enterprises to lead digital transformation, develop world class GTM, and helping scale-ups reach their potential.
Asia
Karl Engkvist
Singapore
Karl heads the investment arm of Taylor’s Education Group, which owns and operates schools and universities in Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam, and which invests in related start-ups. He has spent his career in senior roles leading technology, content, and education services for companies such as The Princeton Review, Blackboard, and Pearson.
Takuya Hirano
Tokyo
Takuya is a Board member and Executive Advisor at Honda Motor Co., Fujitsu, Yokogawa, Yayoi, and Japan Professional Football League. He previously held several leadership positions at Microsoft, including CEO of Japan, VP of Global Alliances and System Integrators, and GM Of Central Eastern Europe.
Wing-Dar Ker
Taipei / Beijing
Wing is experienced in bringing cloud technologies to market in China having served as EVP of 21Vianet, the exclusive operator of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft365 services in China. He is also an advisor at Chayora, an infrastructure developer focused on building data centre platforms in China. Wing previously spent 20 years at Microsoft in a variety of leadership roles across APAC.
Americas
Gytis Barzdukas
San Jose
Gytis is a product management and marketing leader in the industries of IoT, cloud, collaboration technologies, AI & analytics, security software, and eCommerce. He has held senior product management roles at GuideSpark, AutoGrid, Predix (GE Digital), Mozy (acquired by EMC), VMWare, and Microsoft.
Sean O’Driscoll
Seattle
A growth-oriented strategist, Sean brings a customer experience, brand, marketing, and services mindset to scaling organizations through strategy facilitation, execution, and talent alignment. Sean founded a customer experience consultancy that was ultimately acquired by PwC and was one of the founding partners of PwC’s digital practice. He is the Managing Partner at Springbank Partners.
Angus Norton
Seattle
Angus is a "full stack" Product Leader, with deep SaaS Product leadership experience from Microsoft, Xero, Amazon Web Services, and Cisco. At Microsoft he was most recently the VP/GM for Office 365 in the US. At Xero he was their Chief Product Officer, and as a GM and VP Amazon Web Services and Cisco Webex he led team across all elements of bringing SaaS applications to market.
Michael Postek
San Francisco
Michael spent 20 years of his career in Japan with software companies ranging from startups to larger enterprises including Oracle and Adobe. During that time, he held key roles in solution consulting, regional product management, and partner and business development. Michael's area of focus is Japan market entry and business development.
Todd Weatherby
Seattle
Todd helps cloud-based software companies scale up their Enterprise Customer Engagement and Customer Success capabilities. Over three plus decades, Todd held senior leadership positions at Amazon, Microsoft, and Oracle. He spent 11 years with AWS, starting their Professional Services organization and growing it to thousands of employees in 42 countries, with customer engagements in 60 countries. At Microsoft and Oracle, Todd’s focus was in a variety of CPE and consulting roles.
Andy Zupsic
Tampa
Andy is currently Founder and CEO of Executive Engagements International, LLC, a global management consulting group, specializing in optimizing growth acceleration. He has over 40 years in technology, previously serving in a variety of senior leadership roles, domestic and international, for IBM, Microsoft, Juniper Networks, Progress Software, and Vista Equity Partners' portfolio companies.