Michael Alp

Michael Alp is Director of Partners & Alliances for EMC in Asia Pacific & Japan. In this role, he is responsible for accelerating EMC's business with EMC's partners and channel community throughout the region and driving focused program development, training, partner operations and sales execution throughout the region. He manages the marketing, partner enablement and support operations helping the partners to develop their EMC business and the in country resources that work with the partners on a day to day basis.

Michael has worked in APJ in two other significant management roles. He was responsible for the Dell business in APJ for EMC and subsequently managed the EMC Legato business prior to the integration of EMC Legato into the EMC Software group.

Preceding his move to Asia, Michael was EMC's Channel and Alliances Manager for Australia and New Zealand, managing EMC's relationship with key strategic partners such as EDS and TISS (Telstra Information Storage Solutions) part of Telstra's Advanced Hosting and Storage group of offerings and traditional channel partners including Dimension Data, Fujitsu and SecureData.

Prior to joining EMC, Michael was General Manager of Tripoint Online, the outsourcing arm of Tripoint Corporation - a successful technical systems integrator. With over twelve years of experience in the IT industry, Michael worked for major vendors NCR/Teradata and Oracle, in sales, consulting and management positions. He worked extensively across data warehouse, ERP and CRM projects in Sydney and Melbourne with a range of major customers such as CBA, Westpac, St.George, NAB, Telstra and Optus.

Michael holds a Bachelor of Arts from Adelaide University and Graduate Diploma in Strategic Marketing.