Neil Emerson

As Rackspace Technology’s Chief Commercial Officer, Neil Emerson is responsible for relationships with our strategic and alliance partners, as well as customers across our portfolio. He is also responsible for our global sales support organization.

Neil joined Rackspace from Diebold Nixdorf where he was Senior Vice President of Banking Eurasia (Europe, Middle East, Africa and APJ). In this $1.5B annual revenue role, Neil profitably grew the region and spearheaded growth into emerging markets in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Asia. Neil has sold and delivered billions of dollars of services contract value (TCV) over many years at IBM, HP, EDS and Diebold Nixdorf.

Before joining Diebold Nixdorf, Neil worked at TMF Group, as CEO for APJ and Africa. Prior to that he worked at HP, running the Asia Services Business and came to HP from EDS where he was CEO for A/NZ. Neil is an electronic engineer by trade receiving his qualification from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Neil believes the key to success is by being the best-trusted partner our customers can draw on, and he is committed to further enhancing our high-performance culture at Rackspace Technology to achieve this.

In his spare time, Neil loves spending time with his family, as well as hiking in various locations across the world. He’s at his happiest when combining the two, and has hiked with his family on the Overland Trek in Tasmania and across Bhutan.