NEC Australia acquires Melbourne-based Exco Partners

NEC Australia has acquired consulting and digital service company Exco Partners, based in Melbourne.

Exco Partners, specialising in Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Copilot and AI technology, counts the Fair Work Commission, ASIC, Red Cross Lifeblood and Bendigo Bank among its customers.

Exco Partners will operate as a dedicated business unit within NEC Australia, enhancing NEC’s capability across cloud, data and AI while complementing its established capabilities in IT managed services, unified communications, biometrics, digital government and mission-critical digital solutions.

Keith Morrison, CEO of NEC Australia & New Zealand, said the company's customers are navigating increasingly complex digital and AI-driven transformation, often in highly regulated and mission-critical environments. 

"Exco Partners has demonstrated an ability to deliver meaningful outcomes in these settings, combining technical depth with a strong customer-first culture," he said.

"Bringing that together with NEC’s own capabilities and scale supercharges our ability to support customers as they modernise, innovate and scale securely with high-value digital and AI-enabled services.

"Exco Partners is a strong addition to our business and reflects our continued investment in the ANZ region as we evolve NEC’s high-value digital solutions portfolio.”

Ayala Domani, chief strategy and growth officer of NEC Australia, said Exco Partners adds critical capability in cloud, data engineering and AI at a time when customers are accelerating adoption of AI-enabled solutions.

"Exco Partners strengthens NEC’s position in complex government case management, bringing human-centred and secure, scalable solutions, including customer portals and apps that support modern, integrated case workflows," she said.

"This capability enhances our Digital Solutions portfolio and positions us to support government and regulated organisations as they modernise critical services and serve their communities, placing people at the centre of every interaction."

"Being part of the NEC group gives us serious size, scale and complementary capability, enabling us to deliver bigger, broader and more complex transformation programs," said Craig Roberton, CEO of Exco Partners.

"We’re excited to combine NEC’s global reach and technology depth with our design-led cloud engineering, data and AI expertise to deliver at a different scale."

Exco Partners were finalists in the 2022 Impact Awards and the 2025 Impact Awards.

Last year, NEC ANZ named Keith Morrison as CEO and Mike Sellars as its VP - chief technology office.