Senior Management
Chris Wilson
SVP Business Development
Chris Wilson is Senior Vice President of Business Development at Pacnet. He is responsible for the company’s strategy and for corporate development including joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and other major investments. Prior to his current appointment, Mr Wilson served as Vice President of Business Development and Network Trading at Pacnet, and joined the company in 2006.A telecom industry veteran with 24 years of experience, he has spent many of those years in leadership positions with Verizon Business, MCI, WorldCom and British Telecom. Outside the industry he has also worked with GEC Marconi, the BBC and SHL.
Prior to joining Pacnet, Mr Wilson was Director of Asia Pacific Strategy and Business Development at Verizon Business, with responsibility for developing the company’s regional strategy in Asia Pacific. Prior to this, he was Director of Business Operations, where he oversaw amongst other things the development of its regional partner program and its relationship with major System Integrators in the region.
Mr Wilson has spent most of the last 20 years working across Asia and has lived in Hong Kong and Korea in addition to Singapore where he is currently based.
Mr Wilson has an honours degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Southampton (UK) and postgraduate diplomas in marketing and finance. He is a member of the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) and Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).