Sunny Chua Southeast Asia Country Manager, Wasabi

Wasabi Technologies, Inc. has bolstered the growing demand for high-performance, affordable cloud storage in Southeast Asia with the addition of Sunny Chua as country manager.

Under his leadership, the company will help South East Asian partners and customers accelerate their digital transformation initiatives with a cloud storage solution that enables enterprises to make the most of their data and improve their cloud infrastructure resiliency.

Wasabi has seen growth in APAC, as the market has rapidly adopted technology and experienced accelerated data growth as a result. As it expands its presence in Asia, Chua brings over 20 years of experience in the technology industry and a broad business development background to build the company’s reach into local enterprises, and help companies improve economics and performance with a multi-cloud strategy. He previously held business development roles for the APAC teams at Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, and most recently has grown the go-to-market leadership of regional start-ups in the technology space. His experience will be impactful as he fosters partner alliances and relationships in APAC.

“The explosion of data in ASEAN has led to the need for effective data management solutions that are simple and affordable so enterprises can spend time on innovating and launching their business forward,” said Chua. “I’m elated to join a company with a singular focus on delivering the best cloud storage.”

Wasabi is also expanding its presence in South East Asia with new partnerships, including Equinix, HYCU, Hanwha, Veeam, SiS Distribution Thailand Pc and OneT Solutions. Chua’s appointment follows the recent addition of country managers in Australia and Japan, and the addition of Michael King as VP and GM of APAC.

The new appointments follow the opening of four storage regions in Tokyo, Osaka, Japan, Sydney, Australia,and most recently, Singapore.

The vendor provides fast, affordable, and reliable cloud storage for businesses all over the world at 1/5th the cost of large hyperscale providers or on-premises storage with no charges for egress or API requests, and no complex tiering. The company has gained traction in the cloud storage market, with revenues more than doubling from 2020-2021, and more than 40,000 customers in over 100 countries and 13 worldwide storage regions, including four currently in AsiaPac. Wasabi recently announced it achieved unicorn status after closing $250 million in new funding, bringing the company’s valuation to over $1.1 billion. The funds will enable the company to expand into additional vertical markets and geographies, a testament to its vision to deliver a new gen of cloud storage architecture to the world.

Te firm will be at the 2022 Cloud Expo Asia event in Singapore October 11-12.