Zap Technology - Management

Chief Operating Officer, Matthew Lingard

Before founding Zap Matthew gained extensive business experience through a number of sales and marketing management roles at Unilever, Pepsi-Co and Lion Nathan. He later created a marketing consultancy that eventually formed the basis for Zap and its proprietary BI software and business. A thought leader in the BI space, Matthew has for some time overseen Zap's product management team, which subsequently led to his appointment as COO. In this role he has responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the business and reports to Chris Morris as MD.

President North America, Garth D. Laird

With more than 20 years experience in the information industry, Garth brings to Zap extensive experience working with enterprise software products in many segments and geographies. After working in Tier One consultancy firms for the first 5 years after graduating from university, he then moved to corporate information systems. Realizing the vast potential globally for a mid-market business management system, Garth started Navision Software's Australian operations in 1996. He opened other offices across the Asia Pacific region and Navision was later acquired by Microsoft. Over this time, Garth had grown the business to have 100 employees, 80 partners and some 800 clients in the Asia Pacific region. Overall 1,000 people were employed in selling, supporting and managing Navision clients in the region. As Regional Vice President for Navision, he made many international contacts around the globe and it is this, in addition to the vast number of years with many other organizations that he now brings to the management and expansion of Zap.

Vice President - Asia, Joy Paul Tharakan

Joy Paul is responsible for Zap’s Asian operations based out of Singapore. Joy Paul is a seasoned professional in the enterprise application software industry. He began his software career in customer support and since then has successfully fulfilled roles such as sales, marketing, business development and general management within a number of market leading companies in the software industry. Until recently, Joy Paul was the Managing Director for Asia of Microsoft’s ERP and CRM Division. Prior to this, he was the Managing Director of the Asian Operations of Navision. Joy Paul has extensive experience across the Asia Pacific markets and has also held senior roles at Exact Software - a Dutch ERP software provider and Solomon Software's Asian operations.

Vice President – EMEA, Phillip Rubino

Phillip Rubino is responsible for Zap's EMEA operations, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. With over 11 years senior sales and management experience in Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM, and previous roles managing sales, marketing, product management and business development across the globe, Phillip joined Zap from his role as Senior Director of Global ERP Business for Avanade. Phillip has spent much of his IT career in business development and partner management roles around Microsoft Dynamics AX and NAV for Navision and Microsoft. Phillip has also worked with Microsoft ISV Partners to achieve high global growth from both direct and indirect business models.