WWT Opens Asia-Pacific Headquarters and Singapore Technology Center (STC)
October 13 2015 - 10:33PM
Business Wire
New Integration Technology Center and Sales
Presence Expands World Wide Technology’s Global Footprint and
Supports Growing Asian IT Market
World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT), an award-winning systems
integrator and supply chain solutions provider that brings an
innovative and proven approach to how organizations discover,
evaluate, architect and implement technology, today announced that
it has opened new Asia-Pacific Headquarters with sales offices as
well as an integration technology lab in Singapore.
“WWT is making a significant investment in Singapore that will
spread across the Asia-Pacific region,” said Jim Kavanaugh, chief
executive officer and co-founder of WWT. “Our new Singapore
regional headquarters and Singapore Technology Center will not only
offer employment opportunities to the local community, but will
also deliver expansive capabilities to help our customers reduce
the costs, complexity and risks of IT deployments.”
Proven IT professionals Eric Helfer and Nilesh Mistry will
provide strategic leadership for WWT’s new Singapore regional
headquarters and technology center, where they will focused on
fulfilling the IT needs of multiple industries, including financial
services, healthcare, retail, telecommunications, manufacturing and
service providers.
Nilesh Mistry recently joined WWT as Head of
Asia-Pacific. After 20 years working in large multinationals
such as Citigroup, Westpac and his most recent role as CTO for
J.P.Morgan, Mr. Mistry has acquired a broad spectrum of experience
across hardware, software, technology governance, as well managing
large teams both on and offshore. Eric Helfer will serve as WWT’s
Head of Sales for Asia-Pacific. He has spent 15 years in Asia
between Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore, and his last 11 years as a
Global Account Executive at Cisco Systems for Asia and in New
York.
“Leveraging the global success of WWT, the Singapore regional
headquarters and technology center will enable WWT to deliver new
customized solutions to our clients the Asia marketplace,” said
Helfer.
The Singapore Technology Center (STC) will mirror the advanced
capabilities and services of WWT’s established U.S. and
Amsterdam-based Integration Technology Centers and provides a
factory-like environment to provide solutions in areas of
collaboration, compute and cloud, mobility, networking, security,
software and storage and big data.
The STC is a 20,000 square foot facility that includes a 5,000
square foot lab environment offering logistics and integration
services such as shipping and receiving, inventory and storage,
cross dock and logistics services, installation, asset tagging,
kitting and repackaging. The STC will provide desktop and laptop
imaging, IOS network device services, networking project staging,
pre-OS for servers and single device configuration services. Access
point configuration and network project staging as well as rack and
stack services, including integration, cabling, configuration and
crating of rack builds will be fully available in early Q1 of
2016.
The new STC adds to WWT’s Global Integration Technology Center
presence, which includes its St. Louis-based Integration Technology
Center (ITC), a 540,000 sq. ft. facility with a 50,000 sq. ft. lab
environment, and its Amsterdam-based European Technology Center
(ETC), a 35,000 sq. ft. facility with a 5,000 sq. ft. lab
environment. All three facilities are part of WWT’s Advanced
Technology Center, a collaborative ecosystem to design, build,
educate, demonstrate and deploy innovative technology products and
integrated architectural solutions for WWT customers, partners and
employees. When customers leverage these technology centers, they
are able to confidently evaluate and deploy technology solutions
around the world.
About WWT
World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT) is a systems integrator
with nearly $7 billion in annual revenue that provides
innovative technology and supply chain solutions to large public
and private organizations. The company brings to market a
powerful blend of knowledge, infrastructure and technology to help
its customers discover, evaluate, architect and implement
technology products and solutions. Based in St. Louis, WWT works
closely with industry leaders including Boeing (NYSE: BA); Dell
(NASDAQ: DELL); Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO); EMC (NYSE: EMC); HP (NYSE:
HPQ); AT&T Inc., (NYSE: ATT); VMware; NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ:
NTAP); Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and the U.S. Air Force. WWT
employs more than 3,000 people and operates over 2 million square
feet of warehousing, distribution and integration space in more
than 20 facilities throughout the world. For more information
about World Wide Technology, visit www.wwt.com.
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