Ms. Melissa RIES
Vice President and General Manager, Pivotal Asia Pacific & Japan

Melissa Ries is the Vice President & General Manager at Pivotal in Asia Pacific and Japan. Prior to Pivotal, Melissa served the same role for EMC’s Greenplum Division. She is responsible for managing the sales and operations across Asia Pacific. She joined EMC in 2009 to manage part of the EMC’s APJ IIG Division sales related to Information Governance and Information Access.

Before joining EMC, Melissa was the Managing Director, Business Objects, Greater China. She joined Business Objects in 2007, having spent ten years at SSA Global where she held global, regional and country level roles, each directly and indirectly related to sales management. During Melissa’s twenty-two years of experience in the software industry she has held various positions across sales, pre-sales, services, support, marketing and R&D. She has significant global experience, having lived and worked in Japan, US, China, Singapore and Australia.

Melissa holds a Bachelor of Commerce from University of Queensland, and has a CPA qualification. She is currently based in Singapore.