Terry Smagh is the senior vice president and general manager of Asia Pacific and Japan at BlackLine, Inc. He is responsible for spearheading the company’s ongoing regional growth strategy, accelerating customer acquisition and working with BlackLine’s customers to drive the adoption of financial close and automation technologies.

A senior business leader with over 20 years of experience in fields such as financial software, business intelligence and data analytics, Smagh has held senior leadership roles across APAC with some of the world’s leading enterprise technology companies.

Before BlackLine, Smagh was an executive leader for IBM Asia-Pacific’s cloud and analytics business where he was responsible for supporting partner development and overall enterprise sales momentum in hybrid cloud software, cloud services and analytics solutions.

Prior to that, he was managing director and vice president for Asia at Qlik where he successfully developed customized enterprise sales, channel and marketing operations models across the region, and led new office openings in key APAC business centres.

Smagh holds a Master of Science in Knowledge Management, as well as an executive MBA, both from the Nanyang Technological University. His interests include entrepreneurship, start-ups and restoring vintage automobiles.