VMware appoints Sarene Lee as Malaysia country manager

Sarene Lee has been appointed as Malaysia country manager.

In this role, Lee will drive business strategy and development as well as customer and partner relations for VMware to accelerate the adoption of digital transformation in the country.

"Malaysia has made digitalisation a top priority and is actively encouraging companies to transform their businesses to remain relevant and to boost the country's digital economy," VMware Southeast Asia and Korea vice president and managing director Paul Simos says.

"I am confident that with her wide experience and deep knowledge of the Malaysian market, Sarene will play a pivotal role in helping organisations in Malaysia embrace innovation so that they can scale faster and reach their full potential."

Prior to joining VMware, Sarene was General Manager of IBM Cloud with IBM Malaysia. In a career spanning over 25 years, she has had held key leadership positions with IBM and Microsoft in Malaysia with extensive experience in leading teams, growing market share and revenue, driving customer relations, and building partner ecosystems.

"This is an exciting time in Malaysia with markets opening up and businesses gearing for growth," Lee says.

"I look forward to helping organisations here execute their digitalisation roadmaps and attain even greater heights with hybrid and multi-cloud, security, and digital workspace solutions, and to contributing to the development of the business community and growth of the sector."