Lionel Lim

Lionel Lim serves on the OpenLegacy Advisory Board. Lionel is an industry veteran in the Asia Pacific IT industry with over 35 years of executive leadership and management experience in Enterprise Datacenters, Digital Transformation, Cloud Computing Software and Solutions businesses from startup and pre -IPO stages through scale out, hyper growth and transformation phases across Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ).

Most recently, he was the Vice President and Managing Director of Pivotal Inc in the Asia Pacific and Japan Region from June 2016 to June 2020. During his tenure at Pivotal, he successfully built a solid team and a robust Partner Ecosystem that contributed to New Logo acquisitions, established Pivotal Cloud Foundry as the leading Paas, and contributed to many key customer digital transformation references across the region. Under his leadership, Pivotal APJ’s annual recurring revenue grew by over 200% in 3 years.

In 1988, he was the founding Managing Director of Sun Microsystems ASEAN. During his 22-year tenure at Sun Microsystems, he held various senior leadership positions, including President of Sun Asia Pacific and Japan where he led a team of over 1500 employees and was responsible for revenue of $2B, Chief Operating Officer for Asia Pacific and Japan, President for Greater China, President for Japan, and President for the Asia South region.

Lionel holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Melbourne. He is a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors and a cohort of the INSEAD International Directors Program 2014.