Chuck Trent is the Vice President of Vendor Management Office for IT Global Shared Services in Asia Pacific & Japan, equivalent to the Chief Information Officer role. Reporting into the office of Brad Boston, Senior Vice President and CIO of Cisco Systems, Inc., Chuck is also the IT Theatre Relationship Executive for Asia Pacific and a member of the Cisco IT Global Alignment Council. Chuck's responsibilities include global service provider/business partner selection, contracts, RFPs, business processes and relationships for all IT technologies and managed services. In his role of IT Executive in the Asia Pacific region, Chuck has responsibility for client engagement and executive communication. Chuck joined Cisco in 1998 and in his first role looked after design engineering and product lifecycle management for the Cisco internal global multi-service network. Prior to this, he was Technical Director for the Worldwide Network at Tandem computers supporting the global backbone, campus LAN/MAN/Voice operations, Network Helpdesk and Desktop Services. He was also a key member of the Compaq, Tandem and Digital merger and integration team. Chuck retired from Pacific Bell after 21 years where he held several Technical Director and management positions in various systems and network operations, security and planning groups. Chuck is a member of several Customer Advisory Boards and Steering Committees in the Telecom industry. He also sits on Governance Boards and is active in a number of programs to develop and implement IT Best Practices. Throughout his career he has served as an officer of various technology user groups. Chuck is based in Singapore and is married with seven children. He holds a degree in Business Administration with emphasis on Organizational Behavior. |
