Accenture's Brendan Connolly joins Cloudwerx

Cloudwerx, an Australian provider of solutions that integrate advanced data, Generative AI and cloud technology, has appointed Brendan Connolly as COO and head of its data and agentic AI division.

Based in Sydney, Connolly will be responsible for scaling and productising the growth of Cloudwerx Agentic offerings and delivery methods across the company's work across data, Salesforce and other AI platforms.

Formerly MD of data and AI go to market lead ANZ at Accenture, Connolly has more than two decades of experience working in consulting and services roles within organisations, including BearingPoint, Pactera and Cloud Sherpas. 

“It’s a real vote of confidence in the business we have built and the talent within the team," said Toby Wilcock, CEO of Cloudwerx.

"Brendan is a proven business builder and I have no doubt we will go from strength to strength with him onboard.”

Connolly says his decision to join Cloudwerx was driven by the company’s progress in applying AI to services delivery.

“Clients of every scale want delivery that is simpler and more predictable,” Connolly said.

“If AI speeds work, services should reflect that and Cloudwerx are market leading in the approach they are taking to redefine services delivery”.

Following the acquisition of data and AI consultancy Lightfold in 2024, Cloudwerx has expanded two proprietary frameworks that now underpin its applied agentic AI programs, including work on Salesforce Agentforce.

The first, inspired by methods in construction, engineering, and manufacturing, involves a new approach to how services are priced, packaged and delivered. Clients sign a success plan for fixed-price “Delivery Units” - modular building blocks that can be redeemed for a wide range of shippable features across data, AI, and Salesforce projects whenever the client is ready.

Cloudwerx has sold and delivered more than 1,000 Delivery Units across multiple cloud technologies, generating over "$150 million of value" for customers since the system came online.

The second framework, known as Tesseract, is a modular, productised design system that  standardises quality across Salesforce, cloud data, and AI implementations.