Tech Talent Tracker - Microsoft, Swoop, OneTeam IT and more

Our Tech Talent Tracker rounds up all the people movements within APAC's technology industry this past three weeks. Send your appointment news to editors@techpartner.news

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Microsoft's area VP for ANZ takes on new role

Prior to his stint in charge of ANZ, he held such roles at the company as the COO of Asia for three years, COO of ANZ for three years and sales director of the ANZ education segment.

Swoop CEO to leave at end of July

After a period of board and executive changes, Swoop stated that it is now in a position to execute on its “focus, divest, grow” strategy announced late last year.

OneTeam IT appoints Robert Sherry as CEO

He will lead the company's next phase of growth as the company continues to expand its managed services, cloud, cybersecurity, infrastructure and professional services capabilities across Australia.

John Lombard appointed Workday APAC president

Most recently, he spent a decade as APAC CEO for NTT Data, with prior experience including senior leadership roles at SAP, KPMG Australia, and Crowe Howarth.

Ping Identity appoints Akkasha Sultan as VP and GM for APJ

Most recently, he has held leadership roles across Salesforce and Tableau, including VP of Agentforce & Data Cloud in ANZ, area VP for key ASEAN markets, and GM for Tableau’s Analytics and AI business.

Danni Munro takes over as head of APAC at Guardz

Her focus will be on growing Guardz's MSP partner base across ANZ and the broader Asia-Pacific region.

Abbas Kudrati takes over as APCJ field CISO for F5

He joins after serving as the chief identity and AI security advisor for APAC at Silverfort for the last 18 months.

Tal Nathan joins Rimini Street as regional CTO for ANZ

Prior to joining Rimini Street, he spent more than 18 years with the broader NTT Group, including most recently as MD of applications solutions, data and AI for ANZ.

Software Combined appoints Brent Maxwell as group CTO

The appointment creates a dedicated group-level technical function across Software Combined's 13 portfolio businesses, each independently run at different stages of AI adoption and development velocity.

Kinetic IT launches AI engineering and platforms division

As a result, Marcio Sete has been named head of AI engineering and platforms and joins the company with extensive experience delivering enterprise AI, data and platform engineering initiatives across complex organisations. 

Lizzy Jones promoted to head of data and AI at Interactive

She previously served as head of enterprise applications and insights, having formerly served as head of business intelligence and analysis, and head of delivery and business intelligence.

TechnologyOne creates new leadership structure

The change results in two newly created roles of Executive Vice President, Regulated Industries, and Executive Vice President, Government. 

Fuse Technology appoints Scott Allen as director of QLD

He joins after close to four years at Aussie Broadband, where he held such roles as senior product manager and national manager for presales solutions

Infotrust promotes Klaus Crean

He previously held the role of strategic partner manager after joining the company just over a year ago from ctrl:cyber, where he was client partner.

DNX Solutions' Kelly Griffin departs

He joined in 2023 after a three-plus year stint at AWS, where he was a senior partner sales manager.

V2 AI grows senior team by four

Owing to what it said is a five-fold increase in demand from enterprise customers for its AI strategy, engineering and industrial-scale delivery services.

Joanna Lescai promoted to director of project management at CyberCX

She has been with the company for close to four years, with her previous roles there including senior manager, principal project manager and senior delivery manager.

Avalara appoints Nikita Khatri to senior marketing role

Based in Melbourne, Khatri will be responsible for increasing brand awareness of the company’s range of AI-powered tax and compliance solutions, managing partner and alliance marketing, and working closely with the regional inside sales team.

Australia's WiseTech co-founder Richard White steps down as executive chair

Shares ‌of WiseTech were up as much as ⁠10.6% at the time of the announcement hitting their highest level since June 15.

Verena Siow named new SAP Regional President, Asia Pacific

Based in Singapore, she will focus on driving customer success, accelerating business transformation, and helping organisations across Asia Pacific realise the full value of their SAP solutions.

With almost three decades of technology sector experience, Siow has served in multiple capacities during her fifteen-year tenure at SAP, most recently as the Business Suite Leader APAC, driving cloud growth and the end-to-end customer value journey. Prior to that, she was SAP’s Southeast Asia President and Managing Director. 

Fortinet appoints Luca Simonelli as Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific 

Based in Singapore, he will lead Fortinet's Asia Pacific sales organisation, overseeing the company's businesses across Japan, North Asia and South Asia (Southeast Asia, India & SAARC, Australia and New Zealand). He will be responsible for further driving regional strategy, strengthening customer and partner relationships, and accelerating Fortinet's continued growth across the region.

Simonelli brings more than 30 years of international technology leadership experience spanning cybersecurity, networking, SASE, cloud security, and managed services. Most recently, he served in a senior leadership role at GCX Managed Services. 

Zoom appoints Carlos Quaderi as head of APAC

Effective August 1 and reporting directly to Graeme Geddes, Zoom’s Chief Sales and Growth Officer, Quaderi will lead Zoom's go-to-market strategy across APAC: Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), Asia, India and Korea, excluding Japan.

Quaderi previously served as Zoom's Head of Asia where he drove regional strategy, sales execution and go-to-market initiatives for Southeast Asia, Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan. He will now oversee the broader APAC region, working closely with regional teams and global leadership to advance the company’s strategic priorities, with a focus on the customer experience (CX) business, small and medium-sized business (SMB) segment, and channel expansion.

A seasoned industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience, he previously held senior leadership roles at Workday, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, where he led go-to-market strategy and enterprise growth across Asia Pacific and Japan. Quaderi will remain based in Singapore, and will continue overseeing Zoom's Asia business through the transition.

Robyn Woodley takes on new challenge at Kyndryl

She joins as the leader of Kyndryl Consult and Practices across Australia and New Zealand. She was previously at EY for over 14 years, with her final role being managing partner of the Asia Pacific managed services markets.

Jacki McKinnon promoted at Westpac

She is now head of the company's data and AI practice, having previously served as executive manager, data and analytics transformation and executive manager, data strategy and transformation. Prior to this, she was the strategy and tansformation lead at Woolworths Group 

Ericsson's John Haig relocates to Texas

Having served as customer security director since 2019 in Melbourne, he has now moved state-side to lead Ericsson's cybersecurity and investigations function across the Americas, with responsibility for cybersecurity incident response, digital investigations, and the continuous enhancement of the company's security posture throughout the US, Canada, and Latin America.

Bev Carroll named CRO at CoreBiz

She was previously at NCS Group Australia as senior account executive for Microsoft Solutions and prior to that, at Dialog Information Technology as the national sales and marketing manager for the company's Dynamics ERP practice. She has also previously served as the GM for Australasia and Africa at InfoPOS Software.

Amir Bansal hired as AVP of strategic sales at Cognizant

He joins after close to four years as strategic sales lead at Accenture Australia. Prior to this, he was practice head of Cognitive Automation for ANZ at IBM and sales director at Infosys.

Jesus Jimenez takes on new role

He takes over as senior director of customer experience for Asia Pacific and Japan at GitLab after having spent the last 10 months as leader AMS, Applied AI Solutions APAC at AWS. He has also previously served as director of the customer success group for APAC at PagerDuty and the director of the enterprise collaboration group for APJC at Webex.

Pax8's Aidan Clifford joins inforcer 

He takes over as head of business development for ANZ. In his four years at Pax8, he held such roles as manager of Microsoft Alliances APAC; Microsoft Business manager team lead; Microsoft Modern Workplace and Security business manager; and senior channel account manager.

Will Graham becomes DataMasque's sales director for ANZ

Based in NZ, Graham was previously GM of enterprise sales at One New Zealand. He has also held such roles as director of sales and marketing at Devoli, an NZ full-service carrier and telecommunications infrastructure wholesaler, as well as director of technology consulting at PwC New Zealand.

Simon Dawson appointed head of delivery at Mazing

His previous roles include delivery manager at Wesfarmers Health and implementation manager at Scope. He was also at nbn Australia for over six years, holding such positions as delivery manager, implementation manager, IT service manager and project manager.

Scott Parry promoted to COO at Commuserv

He joined the Adelaide-based IT partner over four years ago in the role of business development manager. Prior to this, he was at Telstra for five years, primarily as a business manager.

Meg Santos moves on from Fujitsu

Since September, she served as executive director of the Fujitsu ServiceNow Practice for Oceania. Prior to this, she was at Enable, a Fujitsu company, for over six years, holding such roles as head of Fujitsu ServiceNow for APAC and APAC director of operations.

Ankita Moses promoted at TPG Telecom

She takes over as GM of strategy product and wholesale after serving as head of mobile wholesale since joining in March of last year. Prior to this, she was at nbn Australia for 12 years, holding such positions as executive manager, segment strategy and growth; executive manager, strategic partnerships; and executive manager, commercial and deals.

Thanh Nguyen to tackle new role at IBM

He is now an IBM Technology Leader working with the Australian Federal Government to transform citizen services across Services Australia, Health, the DTA, and broader citizen services. He joined in 2022 and has since served in roles including account technical leader, senior architect and associate partner of data and transformation.

Emma Clark is Versent's new head of marketing

She joins after over seven years at Brennan, where she worked her way up to the senior marketing manager in September of 2023. Prior to this, she was at Canon Australia for over three years.

Kate Wellard departs as Nintex marketing director

She joined just over a year ago, having previously served as head of marketing of Telstra Enterprise. She has also been the CMO at Versent, the APJ growth, marketing and BD director at LivePerson and and the marketing director at IAG.

Anna Christensen swaps Cloudian for Honeywell

She takes over as channel manager for NSW and ACT after four years at Cloudian, where she held such roles as head of channel, MSP business and alliances for Asia Pacific and Japan and head of marketing for APJ. She has also served as head of channel marketing for APAC at NEXTGEN Group and marketing manager (APAC) for UC at Exclusive Networks.

Ali Karnoub wraps up NetApp chapter

For the last five years, he has served as manager of customer success for APAC. He joined following a seven year stint at Telstra, where he held such roles as manager of enterprise service delivery and service delivery manager for business and enterprise.

Matt McManus hired as solutions architect at Vanta

For the last 18 months at SafetyCulture, he lead technical architecture for enterprise integrations across ANZ. Prior to this, he had an 18-year stint at Apple, holding such positions as senior solutions architect for ANZ Enterprise and senior partner engineer for ANZ Enterprise.

Jamie Ellis becomes CSOC manager at Australian Public Service

He joins after nearly 18 months as cyber security operations manager at Digital61. Prior to this, he was at AUCyber for four years, holding such roles as security operations centre manager and cyber security consultant.

Krishna Mandalika takes on new role

Paul Aitken opts for retirement

He closed out his career with a nearly 20-year stint at Data#3, where he held such roles as  national sales excellence specialist, VIC sales manager and account executive.