Dominic leads strategy and public policy at NavigateX. He brings a rare combination of three careers: senior global technology executive, government-affairs leader, and diplomat.
Most recently he built Cisco Systems' Government Affairs group for Asia-Pacific, developing and implementing the government engagement strategies that supported Cisco's work across China, India, Korea, and ASEAN. He served as Co-Chair of the US-Japan Business Council's Digital Economy Working Group, and as a senior interlocutor between the technology sector and governments across the region.
Before that 25-year Cisco career, Dominic served as a Canadian diplomat with postings across Greater China, working closely with senior officials on technology, economic, and trade policy. He has also co-founded several technology start-up companies and served as a strategic advisor and board member to a number of non-profit organizations.
The arc from diplomacy through enterprise technology, and now into the strategy-and-policy seat at NavigateX, gives him a uniquely useful field of view: how governments think, how large technology incumbents move, and where the friction points are when a new technology paradigm meets an established institutional system.
Dominic holds a BA in Asian Studies from McGill University in Canada, with further studies at Nanjing Normal University in China and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.