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Peter Ryan joined Sun Microsystems in June 2006 as Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Services (GSS) in Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA). After a successful year in EMEA Peter was appointed Senior Vice President of Global Sales for the Americas Region. In this role he is now accountable for Sun's revenues margin and business objectives in Canada Latin America and the United States. Ryan believes that combining the talent within Sun's Americas organization and Sun's Partner community the strength of Sun's core technology portfolio and focusing on flawless execution will help drive exceptional results for the company. He feels that Sun's Customers in the Americas Region face a broad range of exciting business opportunities and challenges and Sun is well positioned to help them address them.
During his 27 year career in IT Ryan has performed a wide variety of roles from programmer to executive. Immediately prior to joining Sun he was Chairman of three innovative privately-owned technology companies focused on Marketing Automation Supply Chain and Advanced Indexing and Search. His role in these companies encompassed all aspects of strategy operations and corporate finance. He was previously part of the executive team at Aspect Development when it was acquired by i2 for $9.4B - a record transaction for a software company at the time. Prior to Aspect Development Ryan held a European Executive position within Parametric Technology.
Ryan also spent 11 years at IBM starting as a Systems Engineer and reaching the EMEA executive ranks. His career was characterized by a desire to win in the marketplace building great teams and producing stellar growth in all of the areas he managed. His early career was spent at the UK Home Office and ICL (now part of Fujitsu).
Ryan went to the same school in Liverpool as Paul McCartney and George Harrison (albeit much later!) and is a passionate follower of the Everton Football Club.
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