Lee Syse is a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect for the Cloud Providers business at VMware Sub-Saharan Africa, joining the company in 2016. He works with cloud service providers and cloud brokers across the continent, assisting them in building cloud-centric business models that serve the growing need for hybrid cloud real estate. In his role, Lee helps define disruptive cloud-centric business solutions that enable the African VMware cloud provider base to deliver on the cloud's positive disruptive benefits.
Lee is passionate about training and partner enablement, bringing together his extensive technical knowledge and business acumen to help design, implement, and mobilise the cloud provider network's cloud offerings. Well-known in the local market for his practical advice, Lee regularly plays a role in industry events where he provides insights into the state of the cloud market and provides empirical evidence of how companies can take advantage of these to grow their cloud practice.
Before joining VMware, Lee worked as, amongst others, a certified VMware Instructor at Torque-IT, delivering official training on how to design, deploy and manage VMware environments.
Lee is a member of and leads a VMware cloud task team for Sub-Saharan Africa, responsible for evolving VMware's Cloud go-to-market and enablement plans for the company in the region. When he isn't architecting the clouds of the future, he enjoys water sports, including boating and scuba diving.
Lee is based in Johannesburg, South Africa, from which he looks after the cloud provider requirements of partners across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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