Hastings Singh Bio

Hastings Singh is Director - Distribution for Asia-Pacific, at Research In Motion (RIM). Based in Singapore, his remit is to drive RIM’s distribution efforts across hardware, accessories and software.
 
Hastings has 13 years of experience in telecommunications sales and marketing in Asia-Pacific, including seven years with Vodafone Australia. He held several executive roles managing and implementing a range of sales, channel and distribution structures across all customer segments.
 
At Vodafone, he played a key role in facilitating the creation of a new small/medium business sales capability. In 2008, as part of this strategy, Hastings led the acquisition of the largest independent telecoms retailer in Australia, which comprised 105 stores and 600 staff. He also oversaw business sales across Vodafone’s 220 retail stores. He also directed the Vodafone Group team which investigated fixed line and broadband market entry through partnership or acquisition in Australia and New Zealand, as part of its global ‘Mobile Plus’ initiative.
 
In 2003-4, he managed Vodafone's largest regional MVNO and Wholesale team. In this capacity he launched the first prepay MVNO in the Vodafone Group. In 2005-6, Hastings led the Vodafone team that launched notebooks with in-built SIM cards – the ‘Built in 3G’ program.
 
Hastings has been an avid Blackberry user since 2004.