Before co-founding Asiastep, Tonny Hansen was the Director of International Sales for Aplix Corporation of America where he successfully bootstrapped their international sales operation leading to a successful IPO in the Japanese Mothers stock market.

Prior to that, he spent nine years at Sun Microsystems where he was instrumental in closing software licensing agreements for the Solaris operating system, Java, and other Sun software stack with Fujitsu, Toshiba, Matsushita, Softbank and other major OEM's, system integrators, and distributors.

He has extensive marketing and sales experience that spans the globe: Japan and Asia, North America, and EMEA. He has experience with microprocessors at Intel, as well as graphics, storage controllers and motherboards at Western Digital. He has held sales, business development, marketing, and engineering positions at these companies all of which involved international activities. This experience gives him a unique perspective on the difficulties of transplanting businesses overseas.

Tonny Hansen holds a B.S.E.E. degree from Columbia University, School of Engineering and Applied Science and an M.B.A. degree from Pepperdine University. He is fluent in Japanese.