Our Tech Talent Tracker rounds up all the people movements within Australia's technology industry this past fortnight. Send your appointment news to editors@techpartner.news
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Brennan promotes one and hires three
Peter Soulsby has been promoted to director of cyber security, with the company also hiring former Macquarie Technology Group COO Robert Hanimyan as its director of digital. Rounding out the organisational changes are the appointments of Karen Murfett as branch manager of the newly established Tasmania office and Mathew Cremen as branch manager of the Newcastle office.
Cloudflare appoints Pat Breen as VP for ANZ
He joins after having served for over three years as a regional sales director at Splunk.
IBM Consulting appoints Melanie Evans to leadership role
Over the past several months, Evans has provided independent advisory support to public-sector agencies, shaping digital and data operating-model reform, governance uplift, and leadership capability development.
Accenture's Brendan Connolly joins Cloudwerx
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.
HubSpot promotes Megan Hughes to JAPAC MD
In her new role, the Sydney-based Hughes will oversee HubSpot's business growth, sales strategy, and operations across JAPAC, including key markets like Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and India.
Rapid7 promotes Soumi Mukherjee to ANZ sales director
She joined Rapid7 in 2018 from Interlock Technologies, where she was an account director.
PagerDuty names Callum Eade as VP of APAC sales
He has over two decades of enterprise technology leadership experience at Citrix, VMware, and UiPath.
John Ruthven has taken over as interim CEO as of yesterday.
RecordPoint appoints Brett Hooker as its first COO
His mandate includes optimising internal systems and processes, strengthening delivery capabilities, and aligning cross-functional teams to drive greater efficiency, accountability, and performance at scale.
MyCISO grows team with trio of appointments
Craig McGregor joins as alliances director, Diluka Senarath will lead the company's government and NFP practice and Ali Hammoud will lead the company's property, construction and engineering practice.
Adactin names Avinash Peter as CFO
Based in Sydney, Peter will be responsible for further developing a finance function to support Adactin’s ongoing company growth throughout the Asia Pacific region.
Deep tech incubator Cicada Innovations names Liza Noonan as CEO
She previously served as executive director of innovation at Investment NSW, as well as global director of CSIRO, where she held other senior leadership roles including leading the national ON Accelerator and overseeing ASEAN and global innovation partnerships.




