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Stephen Cottrell

Captain · DISC type SD
Director of Asia Pacific at Alation
📍 Greater Melbourne Area, Australia

Stephen Cottrell is a customer-focused executive with over 30 years of IT experience across the Asia-Pacific region, currently serving as Director of Asia Pacific at Alation. A graduate of Bucknell University, he specializes in high-growth sales for SaaS, AI, and data governance. Colleagues describe him as exceptionally driven, passionate, collaborative, and reliable.

While at Princeton Softech, he single-handedly grew an annual business from $200K to over $6M in just fourteen months, leading to a successful acquisition by IBM.

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Experience
29 Years
Current Role
Director of Asia Pacific
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Greater Melbourne Area, Australia
Personality Overview

How Stephen shows up

Long-Term Thinker
Consummate Professional
Dynamic But Sincere

Reading between the lines and seeing beyond your words comes naturally to them. They might take some time to make their mind up but once they do, they don't change it easily. They are very professional in their approach and can weigh multiple perspectives together.

Priorities

Topics Stephen cares about

AI Governance
Frequently posts using the #AIGovernance hashtag, indicating a strong professional focus on this emerging and critical area of data management.
APAC Market Expansion
Has a significant track record of driving high-multiple revenue growth and building teams across the Asia-Pacific & Japan region for several tech companies.
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Career

Work history

3-2019
Director of Asia Pacific
Alation
8-2016 - 2-2019
Vice President of Asia Pacific
Sumo Logic
7-2014 - 8-2016
Managing Director Asia Pacific
Sumo Logic
9-2007 - 7-2014
Data Governance Business Unit Executive - Asia Pacific & Growth Markets for 2 Product Lines
IBM
1-2006 - 9-2007
Vice President Asia Pacific
Princeton Softech
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
7-2012 - 8-2012
Industry Insights Program
Singapore Management University & Wharton School of Business
1985 - 1989
BA
Bucknell University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

S

Steadiness (S)

Steadiness (S) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to focus on cooperation, support and taking everyone along. Those scoring high tend to be consistent and calm.

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