Ricky Zheng

VP & General Manager, Hawaii & Pacific Islands at VPLS

Ricky Zheng is the Vice President and General Manager for VPLS operations in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands. Ricky brings over 20 years of experience delivering technology solutions to the Commercial, State, Local, and Federal government sectors in Hawaii and US-affiliated territories located throughout the Pacific region.

Prior to joining VPLS, Ricky founded ZR Systems Group LLC in 2006, a Hawaii-based company focused on providing Managed IT Services, Colocation & Cloud solutions, Equipment Sales, and Consulting services. During that tenure, ZR Systems was placed three times on the Pacific Business News’ Fastest 50 Growing Companies list and consistently placed in the Top 5 in IT Services Firms and Cloud Provider rankings.

Ricky has a BBA in Management Information Systems and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. When he’s not at work or with his family, Ricky enjoys working with local non-profit and public service organizations to stay involved in the community.


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VPLS has the expertise and global reach for all your cloud, colocation, hosting, backup and disaster recovery needs. Our carrier-neutral data centers are HIPAA, IDS, ISAE, SSAE, SOC2 and PCI DSS compliant offering full-stack IT expertise including network, hosting, cloud, bare-metal, security and managed services to support mission-criticalapplication infrastructure. VPLS has a global network backbone with over 200 Gbps of transit capacity, making VPLS the ideal on-ramp to the internet and public clouds like Amazon, Azure, Google and Oracle. VPLS’s Network and Security Operations Centers in Orange, CA and Bangkok, Thailand provide 24×7 managed service support offering help desk, managed server, managed security, managed switch, and managed wireless services to over 7,000 customers globally.