Crawford Beveridge

Who is Crawford Beveridge?

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. Beveridge is also responsible for

driving and delivering Sun’s EMEA revenues, margins and business

objectives across its full portfolio of products, services and customer

base. 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.