Our Tech Talent Tracker rounds up all the people movements within APAC's technology industry this past fortnight. Send your appointment news to editors@techpartner.news
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Chris Casey becomes MD of ANZ for AWS
He first joined AWS in 2018, working in New York City and responsible for all Specialist Sales, Business Development, Customer Success, Marketing, Partnerships, and Operations for AWS Data Exchange.
Infotrust appoints Paul Timmins as CEO
Most recently, he was chief executive of Protegic, an Australian technology consulting and transformation firm, and before that was CEO of Davidson Technology.
Avanade appoints new country CEO for ANZ
Doug Robinson joins Avanade with more than three decades of senior leadership experience, including over two decades at IBM.
Vocus appoints Nikos Katinakis as CTO
Based in Melbourne, he will oversee network, security, customer operations, and work health and safety at Vocus, as well as driving the evolution and scaling of the company’s extensive subsea, inter-capital, and metro fibre networks, and build out intelligent automation across Vocus’ networks and operations.
Microsoft's Jo Dooley to join EY in September
She joined Microsoft close to eight years ago as chief customer officer of professional services before taking over as GM of enterprise in April 2021.
Veracity Business Solutions appoints Daniel Bayfield as CEO
His appointment follows Veracity’s acquisition by Evergreen and its transition into the Lyra Technology Group in late 2025.
Based in Sydney, Bruce Bennie will be responsible for overseeing Fastly’s business across the region with a focus on driving growth, deepening customer and partner relationships, fostering innovation and advancing Fastly’s ongoing expansion.
Pathkey.AI names Andrew Farnsworth as CEO
He has been engaged to provide consulting services over the last six months as part of the strategic review undertaken to assist with the refinement of Pathkey's position as an applied AI company with capabilities extending beyond healthcare while maintaining TrialKey as its lead commercial platform.
Australian AI platform company monō ai adds head of delivery
Peter Albert joins after serving as COO of camera accessories company Urth.
Aussie Broadband promotes Rebecca Rizzo
She joined in September 2021 as GM of marketing after a 15 year career at carsales.
Aon appoints Quinton Kotze as cyber solutions head for Australia
He joins Aon from Chubb, where he most recently served as digital domain lead and financial lines product manager for Asia.
Kinetic IT promotes Wayne Woodman
He previously held the role of account director at Kinetic IT since joining 2023 from Capgemini, where he was a was delivery executive.
Avanade's Paul Tucker joins Rapid Circle
Prior to Avanade, he spent five years at Microsoft leading the Consulting Sales (ISD) Enterprise Team and Strategic Pursuits Consulting Sales function, helping deliver client solutions, shaping go-to-market strategies and leading large-scale engagements.
Alex Morkos takes over as CTO of StateKraft
He previously led the tech and cyber security architecture and engineering practice at McGrathNicol for over two years. Prior to this, he was a partner at EY.
Sam O'Brien joins ServiceNow
He takes over as sales director for Veza Identity Security in Asia Pacific and Japan. His most recent role was VP of sales and GTM for Asia Pacific and Japan at Archer Integrated Risk Management, having worked at RSA Security for close to a decade prior, with his final role there being sales director for RSA Archer, covering Asia-Pacific and Japan.
Tom McQueen wraps up time at Cognizant
He had been at the business for over five years, most recently in the role of APJ market lead for Cognizant Moment. Prior to this, he was a consulting partner for product, design and sustainability; a co-lead for Softvision Australia; and head of product for ANZ. Before joining Cognizant, he served as a business development director at Accenture Song, a partnerships and growth director at EY Studio+ and a principal for customer experience and Design at Nous Group.
Gavin Kemp named AWS sales director at PurePlay Cloud
He joins after serving as an AWS sales lead at Crayon for four years. Prior to this, he was an associate director at KPMG Australia, which acquired Certus APAC, where he was an Oracle enterprise sales manager.
Westpac's Peter McLardy departs after 27 years
He joins AIGEUS, a startup founded by Mark Zanetich that specialises in technology and Cyber risk consulting, implementation and services, in the role of head of technology risk and governance. He was previously at Westpac for over 27 years, most recently as senior risk advisor for the last 18; prior to this, he worked as a service delivery manager, a DBA manager and a system manager.
Atmos welcomes Alana Lathrope as director of professional group operations
The company said she brings deep expertise across risk, insurance, regulation and complex stakeholder engagement, having advised boards, executives and regulators across Australia, New Zealand and Asia‑Pacific on high‑consequence operational, technology and regulatory risk, including cyber risk, incident response and enterprise risk management.
Alison Neal takes over as GM of Forward Logic
Forward Logic is a Perth-based consultancy focused on delivering technology outcomes in complex operational environments. Neal joins after serving as CEO of DataDivers, a specialist team dedicated to all things data, analytics and AI. She also served as CEO of JourneyOne.
Preeya Gopal becomes Sitecore's revenue operations lead for APJ
She joins after over seven years at Dell, with her most recent role being ANZ ISG business lead. Prior to this, she served as APJ sales and business advisor at VCE and senior business analyst - EMC specialty business units at EMC Corporation.
Merill Fernando moves on from Microsoft
He joined in March 2020 as senior product manager, being named principal product manager three years later. Prior to Microsoft, he served as an engineering lead at Telstra, a solution architect at Jacobs Technology and a group manager of software engineering at Assette.
Kelly Dowler returns from travel break
After taking a year off and embarking on a family sabbatical travelling across Australia, she joins Our Watch, an organisation that exists to help prevent violence against women and their children, in the role of people and culture business partner. She was previously at Interactive for over seven years, most recently as head of learning, having also served as a people business partner at GHD and a people and performance business partner at Fletcher Building prior to this.
HP's Robert Corkhill joins ASUS
He becomes the company's digital, content and PR marketing manager after serving as the consumer personal systems marketing lead for ANZ for HP for four years. Prior to this, he was the marcom manager at Acer and the marketing manager at RFI Technology Solutions.
Casey Robilliard named senior field marketing manager for Teradata
She joins after three years as senior client partner at TSM. Prior to this, she was the senior marketing manager for APAC at Liferay and a digital transformation consultant at Datarati.
Stewart Cochran becomes account director, majors ANZ for Wiz
He joins after serving as director of strategic accounts for Snowflake for over a year, following a stint in enterprise sales at Elastic. Prior to this, he was at New Relic for close to seven years, with his final role there being senior director pf APJ alliances and channels and Korea country leader.
Ant Moran appointed ANZ channel account manager at Arista Networks
He joins after serving as partner account director for ANZ at Illumio for a year and a half. Prior to this, he served as partner account executive for strategic alliances, ANZ at Akamai Technologies, head of business systems and operations at Earthmoving Equipment Australia and service delivery manager at Brace168.
Moe Omran takes over as Access4's partner growth manager
He joins after three years as wholesale account manager at Vocus. Prior to this, he was senior account manager at TPG Telecom, national sales manager at Optus and BDM at CPM Australia.
Rob Easton hired as senior account manager at ESN Group
He joins after a year as senior account manager at Sense-IT. Prior to this, he was an enterprise account manager at Brennan IT and a people services manager at MOQdigital.
Michael Woodward appointed as key account manager at Jamf
He was previously a team lead ITMS at Ericom for close to three years. Prior to this, he was an enterprise account manager at Optus, a senior account executive at Sinefa and channel partner manager at TBS Distribution.
Bradley Cannon named commercial account executive at Conga
He joins after five years at monday.com, where he was senior account executive for over three years. Prior to this, he was an account executive - mid market at Bullhorn.
Allissa Henderson joins Snowflake as enterprise account executive
She joins after five years at Atlassian, where she was most recently a strategic enterprise account director for ANZ. Prior to this, she was an enterprise account executive at Amazon Web Services, an account executive at New Relic and a senior account executive at Yelp.com.
Atlassian hires Emelia Goodfellow
She takes over as a senior manager for enterprise account management after serving as director of customer success at SafetyCulture. Prior to this, she served as a manager of customer success for APAC at monday.com, a manager of customer success for APAC at monday.com at MongoDB and a client success director at Meltwater.
Georgia Boward becomes enterprise account executive at Adaptive Security
She joins after nearly two years as a senior account executive APAC at Vanta. Prior to this, she served as an account executive at HiBob, an enterprise account executive at impact.com and an account executive at UpGuard.
Charlie Stowe named Apple-focused BDM for Ingram Micro
He joins after seven years at Extu, a provider of channel engagement software and services. During his time there, he held such roles as client director, vendor performance and campaign manager, and partner marketing consultant.
Datacom's Richard Prinsloo joins HPE as compute specialist
In a career at Datacom that totalled nearly 10 years across two different stints in both New Zealand and Perth - broken up by a time as the HPE and Aruba BDM at Dicker Data NZ - he served as BDM and product account manager.
Jay Fang promoted at One New Zealand
He becomes head of enterprise and mid-market sales after serving as senior manager of business sales for the past year; he rejoined the company just over four years ago. Prior to this, he had a stint as sales manager at Trade Me after 11 years at Vodafone NZ - renamed to One New Zealand in 2023 - with his last role before departing being regional sales manager for SME.
Gagandeep Sharma moves on from Vodafone NZ
He joins Enviro NZ as a key account manager for national accounts after 14 years with Vodafone NZ. During his time there, he served in such roles as key account manager, national account manager and SME business account manager.
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