Asia Management Team

Vice President and Managing Director Asia Pacific & Japan Progress Software

Keith Budge is the Vice President and Managing Director for Asia Pacific & Japan at Progress Software. In his role, Keith is responsible for the management and direction of all aspects of the company’s business including sales, consulting services, support, marketing and education throughout Asia Pacific and Japan.

Keith’s career encompasses 17 years in executive and senior management roles in the software industry, 8 years in the telecommunications industry, 2 years in senior policy roles in the Australian public sector, and 3 years in retail management. A characteristic of Keith’s career has been introducing new technologies to the marketplace, leading new businesses to maturity, and managing sustained performance of established businesses. 

Senior Director of Solution Deployment, Progress Asia Pacific and Japan

Guhan has extensive leadership experience in managing pre-sales and post-sales, selling and business development.

Prior to joining Progress in March 2010, Guhan worked as Head of Pre-sales and Post-sales team for TIBCO in Asia. Guhan comes to Progress with 20 plus years of experience in the enterprise software industry and delivered multiple large scale mission critical projects across Financial Services, Telecommunications and manufacturing industries. Guhan is technically sophisticated and business savvy management professional with a career reflecting strong leadership qualification with hands-on experience.

Guhan holds a MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Sydney and received his bachelor degree in Computer Engineering from M.K University, India.

Director, FSI Solutions, Progress Asia Pacific and Japan

Mr. Hui has 20+ years in the IT industry focusing on solution consulting for banking working for major IT vendors. Previously with TIBCO, PeopleSoft, Onyx and JDEdwards. Mr. Hui has taken part in various major banking projects for some of the biggest banks in the region around CRM, Risk and Compliance Management, Channels Synchronization, Customer Centricity, Real-time/context Based Marketing for retail banking, Core Banking implementation and etc with specialty in Event Drive Architecture and Responsive Process Management.

Director, Communications and Media Solutions, Progress Asia Pacific and Japan

Vivek is responsible for promoting the company’s solutions vision and strategy, regional go-to-market strategy and execution, as well as sales enablement of our Communications and Media solutions. With over 15 years of multi-faceted experiences in Communications and Media domain, Vivek brings a wealth of knowledge in Solutions Strategy and Marketing, Sales, Sales Consulting and Delivery. He has done his Bachelors in Engineering from National Institute of Technology in India and holds an Executive diploma in Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Director of Marketing, Asia Pacific & Japan Progress Software

Bhupesh Lall serves as the Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) at Progress Software. In this role, Bhupesh is responsible for Progress’s APJ marketing strategy and operations.

Bhupesh brings over 15 years of experience in marketing leadership roles, with a strong focus on solving challenges faced by customers through the adoption of cutting edge technology. Prior to joining Progress Software, Bhupesh served as Director of Marketing with leading software companies such as Dassault Systemes and PTC in global and APJ roles. Bhupesh also had a distinguished stint with Autodesk with responsibility for driving strategic education programs in the Asia Pac region.

Bhupesh is a passionate speaker on sustainability, innovation and education, and has been widely quoted by the media on these topics.

Bhupesh has a degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA in international marketing from France.