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
Microsoft names new MD for ANZ
Jane Livesey has joined Microsoft as corporate vice president and the next MD for Australia and New Zealand, starting in November of this year. She takes over from Steven Worrall, who has held the position since January 2017 and will begin as CEO of Telstra's backbone network arm, Telstra InfraCo, on Monday September 1.
Until Livesey joins later this year, Steven Miller will continue to serve as interim leader for the Australia and New Zealand business. She currently serves as president of Asia Pacific and Japan at Cognizant, leading the company’s regional growth agenda, with a strong focus on tech innovation, customer success and talent development.
Stuart Mort joins as tech and telco industry lead and Angelo Friggieri comes onboard as public sector industry lead; both roles are global appointments that will help support CyberCX’s growing tech, telco and government customer base across the region.
Rubrik appoints Stefan Compagnoni as head of channel ANZ
He joins Rubrik from Extreme Networks where he spent five years in various channel roles, most recently as head of channel and distribution ANZ.
David Caspari joins Check Point Software Technologies as ANZ MD
Caspari has held senior leadership roles at Cisco Systems, HP Enterprise and Optus, working with enterprises and governments to modernise legacy environments, strengthen critical infrastructure, and deliver digital transformation at scale.
Cohesity appoints James Eagleton as MD for ANZ
Eagleton brings leadership experience in data security, virtualisation, and enterprise digital solutions, to his new role, having led regional sales and channel teams at Adobe, Dell, and Sun Microsystems.
Kyndryl appoints Graeme Beardsell as ANZ MD
Prior to joining Kyndryl, Beardsell served as the APAC CEO of Fujitsu. He has held key leadership positions at Akamai, Experian, Salesforce, and IBM in the Asia Pacific region.
Former Airtrunk figure Michael Juniper lands at DigiCo
DigiCo Infrastructure REIT (DigiCo), an ASX-listed owner, operator and developer of data centres, has announced the proposed appointment of Michael Juniper as director of the board of HMC Digital Infrastructure Ltd and as a senior executive in HMC Capital Group’s Digital Infrastructure platform management team.
Ericsson's Emilio Romeo to depart at end of month
In January of this year, it was announced that he would shift to an executive strategic advisor role for Southeast Asia, Oceania and India.
Okta gets a new chief security officer for Asia-Pacific
Mathew Graham will be responsible for driving Okta’s regional security strategy, working closely with customers, partners and industry stakeholders to support the adoption of phishing-resistant authentication, identity governance, and advanced security posture management.
V2 AI hires AI and modernisation director
Bojan Zivic most recently served as a principal consultant at both Mantel Group and CMD Solutions.
Former CEO of Finder co-founds back-office automation provider
The product combines RPA-grade reliability with the intelligence of AI, all running securely inside the customer’s network.
Andrew Russell, who succeeds Marcus Price, will also be appointed to the Iress board when he commences in November and will be based in Sydney, Australia.
Exclusive Networks appoints Bennett Wong as SVP of APAC
In the near term, Wong will focus on growing Exclusive Networks’ services offering, helping vendors bring new technologies to market faster, and strengthening partner capabilities across key markets. Longer term, his strategy is built on three pillars: driving operational excellence across existing markets, building solution capabilities that differentiate Exclusive Networks, and delivering a consistent Exclusive Networks experience and platform with broad market coverage, support and Go-To-Market execution for vendors and partners.
Cohesity names Greg Statton as CTO for APJ
In this newly created role, he will lead technology strategy and innovation initiatives across APJ, supporting Cohesity’s mission to deliver next-generation data protection solutions in the region following the successful integration with Veritas’ enterprise data protection business. Statton will take on the new role, alongside his existing responsibilities of leading innovation and development of Cohesity’s AI solution – Gaia, globally and will report directly to Sunil Moolchandani.
Statton’s new role extends his 10-year career within Cohesity, having served in a variety of sales engineering leadership and technical innovation roles within the business including VP AI Solutions and Senior Director Data & AI within the office of the CTO. Prior to Cohesity, Statton spent time working at CITRIX, Nutanix and as Google product development specialist.
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