Garry Owen, Systems Practice Marketing Manager, Sun Microsystems

Garry Owen has over twenty years of IT industry experience, ranging from programming through to customer services including nearly fifteen years of marketing (product, channel, corporate and strategic), across most product areas. Garry's core functional expertise is in the areas of systems, some middleware applications such as systems management and clustering, virtualisation, etc.

Garry joined Sun Microsystems UK and Ireland in early 2007 following three years running Product Marketing for Fujitsu Siemens Computers in the UK. Prior to this, he spent seven years working for Dell in various EMEA roles, including heading up Server and Storage Product Marketing and the EMEA Advanced Systems Group. Prior to this Garry spent some twelve years in various roles within ICL and Fujitsu ICL Computers.

Currently, Garry is responsible for all field marketing and lead generation programmes in the UK that support the Sun Systems or server business. This includes product launches and product briefing/training within Sun and for partners. Garry has responsibility within marketing for strategic alliances with companies such as AMD, Intel, Microsoft, VMware, etc.

Throughout Garry's career he has been a regular speaker at industry, partner and customer events (both internal and external). Garry is press-trained and is a key media and analyst contact.

Garry has a B.Sc. (Hons) in Biochemistry from the University of Leeds, an M.Sc. in Information Technology from Loughborough University and has recently begun work on an MBA at Warwick Business School.