BenAllard氏

Ben is the Vice President Sales Asia Pacific Japan with Planet. Planet has deployed the largest constellation of Earth-observing satellites in history that image the entire surface of the Earth, every day. When analyzed with advanced AI techniques, this imagery has transformational value for addressing a host of global challenges, including improving agriculture, delivering sustainable development, monitoring peace and conflict, ensuring human rights, predicting food insecurity, assessing climate change, delivering disaster response, and improving conservation, among many others. Ben is responsible for driving strategy, increasing government and commercial awareness of this transformational value and overseeing Planet business activities across the region. Ben has over 20 years of experience in professional services, value engineering and sales leadership roles in APJ, EMEA and US. Ben holds a Bachelor degree from University of Technology, Sydney. Prior to joining Planet, Ben worked at Apptio helping Fortune 1000 companies make data-driven timely decisions, align technology investments to business outcomes and respond to market disruptions. He assisted in expanding the business to EMEA and APAC, and launched the APAC Technology Business Management (TBM) Council, focused on thought leadership, standards and education with CxO’s from leading companies across the region.