More about Dann Angelo De Guzman

Dann Angelo De Guzman is one of the youngest tech entrepreneurs in Asia Pacific region focused in cloud technologies, next-generation IT infrastructure / Software-Defined Datacenter technologies, EdTech, product innovation design & management and future-ready digital skills solutions across the industry sectors, globally.

Prior to being a technology business executive and serial entrepreneur, he has worked at Accenture in Technology consulting division where he spent most of his time strategising, designing and implementing IT infrastructure virtualization technologies and cloud computing deployments locally and in Australia. 

He previously became an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Future Now Ventures while he was running the first EdTech startup that he founded, Hong Kong-based RocketLabs Software - a company he started from scratch only at the age of 22.

Future Now Ventures is the most active and successful Microsoft-ISV focused venture capital firm with tech investments in the Philippines, North America and Australia.

He graduated from the top ranking and most highly regarded engineering university in the Philippines, Mapua University (formerly Mapua Institute of Technology - MIT), with a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering in 2011. 

In 2021 he had also successfully completed several global executive programs such as the highly demanded executive leadership program from the National University of Singapore (NUS Business School FLP) as one of its pioneer executive business leader students of that cohort and finished it with Excellent marks. In addition, he has also successfully completed a highly selective, rigorous and intense Post-Graduate Diploma program on Product Innovation Design (with High Distinction) from the prestigious joint program by the top tier universities in the world, namely (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) MIT Sloan - Columbia Business School - Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

He is now the Founder and CEO of CloudSwyft - the global leader in hyper-scaler multi-cloud virtual labs technology and future ready skills solution for education and enterprise sectors, with customers and partners in APAC, ANZ, India, Europe and Americas.

He also currently sits as one of the Board Directors of LUNA Academy (a local joint venture between CloudSwyft and DITO CME), the largest B2C focused Philippine-based online learning marketplace platform.

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