Duncan Kenwright

Regional Vice President at Verizon​

Speaker

Duncan Kenwright serves as the Regional Vice President for Verizon Business in the Asia-Pacific region. He is responsible for driving complex digital transformation projects for governments and multinational organizations, including 99% of the Fortune 500 companies, supporting them through their digital transformation journeys.

Duncan has over 20+ years of experience in Enterprise telecommunications. He joined Verizon in 2000 as a Client Engineer based in London, where he was responsible for ensuring the integrity of critical business processes for Verizon's Managed Hosting and Application Management customers. He held leadership roles in both operations and pre-sales for Verizon in Europe, before moving to Asia in 2012.

Duncan is an active member of the Verizon Employee Resource Group (ERG) and VALOR (Verizon Veterans and Advocates Leading Organizations Responsibility), and serves as a Volunteer Champion representative for Asia Pacific supporting the Citizen Verizon Volunteer Program. In addition, he holds key corporate governance roles across Asia.

Prior to his career with Verizon, Duncan served in the British Royal Navy for 9 years. He served aboard H.M.S Campbeltown (F86) as an Artificer Engineer (Communications), deploying to the Gulf. He later transferred to the Submarine Service and was drafted to H.M.S Talent (S92) as Chief of Section, Communications and Electronic Warfare. During this time, he held a Defense Vetting security clearance and deployed in the North Atlantic. He studied Communications and Electronic Surveillance at HMS Collingwood Weapons Engineering College, Portsmouth.