Ernie Hu

As Chief Operating Officer, Ernie oversees the country manager team, field operations and other corporate functions, particularly the partner channel, for CAST. Ernie also contributes to CAST’s corporate strategy, including expansion activities and acquisitions.

Ernie grew up in the US, holding degrees in commerce and business administration from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and joined IBM in 1994 in Hong Kong. During his career at IBM, he held a number of sales, marketing and brand management positions at both IBM's Greater China and Growth Markets Units within Software Group, where he led IBM’s Information Management portfolio of Data Management, Content Management and Business Analytics including the Asia Pacific sales integration of acquisitions with SPSS, Princeton, Softech and a few others. His last two positions were head of IBM Software for Greater China, and then GM Greater China for the IBM Cloud business.