In this bonus episode, we sit down with Juan Loaiza, Executive Vice President, Mission-Critical Database Technologies, and Chris Chelliah, Senior Vice President, Technology and Customer Strategy JAPAC. Together they discuss the how enterprises are leveraging AI and cloud infrastructure, and updates on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) strategy in the JAPAC region.

Juan Loaiza, Executive Vice President, Database Technologies, Oracle

He is responsible for leading product strategy, development, and management for the world’s leading transaction processing and engineered systems technologies, in the cloud and on-premises. His team is focused on automating and converging database technologies to make application development and operations dramatically easier, saving customers time and money and allowing them to focus on what matters most to them.

Juan holds BS and MS degrees in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1988, he left the MIT doctoral program to join the Oracle Database engineering team and has been an innovator in database technologies ever since. In his free time, Juan is an active supporter of more than 15 organisations around the world that work to conserve wildlife and wild places, including WildAid and Wildlife Conservation Network.

Chris Chelliah, Senior Vice President, Technology and Customer Strategy, Oracle JAPAC

Chris Chelliah leads Oracle’s digital transformation strategy across Japan and Asia Pacific, driving hypergrowth in cloud infrastructure and autonomous databases. He oversees cloud specialist sales teams, industry architects, and Oracle Insight experts to deliver a consultative, customer-focused approach that helps businesses achieve their goals.

Chris has nearly 30 years of experience across a variety of portfolios in Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America. Previously at Oracle, he focused on customer success with consulting and implementation services in global projects in the telecommunications, financial services, and government sectors. He’s a frequent industry speaker and contributes regularly to trade and industry journals and opinion pieces on applications for emerging technologies.