Richard is the Global Cloud Strategy Director for VMware. He is the Global Cloud Strategy Director for VMware. In this leadership role he works to align VMware products and services to the objectives and challenges that customers are facing with cloud and digital transformation, create executive and c-level content to both educate and inform at a general level, and articulate the value proposition of VMware Cloud capability covering native public clouds such as AWS, Azure and Google, as well as VMware vSphere based clouds, and the application platforms that run within them.