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Crawford Beveridge
Executive Vice President and Chairman, EMEA, APAC and the Americas
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Crawford W Beveridge is a technology industry veteran with more than 40
years of international experience.
His role as Executive Vice President and Chairman, EMEA, APAC and the Americas, is to take a long term view and represent Sun's interests in
geographies outside of the US, particularly in high growth geographies
or where Sun has significant investment, such as the EU, Brazil, Russia,
India and China. Specifically he works with governments on public policy
issues in an effort to ensure that there is a level playing field in
areas of emerging technology policy. Of particular focus are all areas
of open - open standards, open source, open media formats, privacy and
identity management, interoperability, eco responsibility and education.
Before joining Sun in 1985 as vice-president corporate resources, he held HR management positions in the United States and Europe with
Hewlett Packard Company, Digital Equipment Corp and Analog Devices Inc.
In 1991 Beveridge left Sun to become the chief executive of Scottish Enterprise, the lead economic development organization for Scotland with more than 1,700 employees and an annual operating budget in excess of $800 million. In this role he oversaw business development, venture capital, skills development, exports, infrastructure and inward investment.
After nine successful years Beveridge returned to Sun in April 2000 as executive vice president of People and Places and Chief Human Resources Officer. Beveridge is a non-executive board member of Autodesk Inc., eSilicon, and Scottish Equity Partners Ltd.
Beveridge holds a B.Sc. in Social Sciences from the University of
Edinburgh, Scotland and an M.Sc. in Industrial Administration from the
University of Bradford, England. He also holds honorary Doctoral degrees
from the University of Edinburgh, Napier University in Edinburgh and
Robert Gordons University, Aberdeen. He was awarded a C.B.E. (Commander
of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen's New Years Honours
list in 1995.
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