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Snowflake announced Jon Robertson will join the company in early March as President of the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region. Jon will be responsible for driving the adoption and expansion of Snowflake’s Data Cloud in the local market, empowering local enterprises to mobilize their data for valuable business insights.
Jon is an experienced executive who, prior to joining Snowflake, served VMWare in the APAC region for the last 14 years. Most recently, he served as President of VMWare Japan K.K., responsible for all aspects of the virtualization, digital workplace and cloud business in Japan. Prior to that, he was General Manager at VMWare ASEAN from 2012 to 2015 and served as Area Vice President at VMWare Japan K.K. beginning in 2007. Throughout his tenure at VMWare, Robertson was involved in strategic planning, business development, and client engagement, playing an instrumental role in growing the business to its current status as a multi-billion-dollar leader in the cloud market.