Bernie Trudel

Bernie has been in the ICT industry for over 30 years. He is currently based in Singapore where he is the Data Center CTO at Cisco Systems Asia Pacific. Bernie is using his twenty years of Cisco technology experience to advise Enterprise and Public Sector organizations on building sustainable Data Center infrastructure and network architectures for hosting and delivering cloud services. Bernie’s extensive background in network design coupled with his indepth knowledge of network security and network application services, enable him to provide Cisco customers with a wide breadth of options when designing cloud architectures to meet the needs of their targeted user segments. In addition, Bernie represents Cisco as the chairman of the Asia Cloud Computing Association. Prior to Cisco, Bernie worked as an IT consultant in Europe and ANZ during which he advised clients on their network architectures. Bernie is an Electronic Engineer from Canada, where he started his career as a hardware design engineer and earned two patents for his innovative work.