Tech Talent Tracker - Pax8, Cythera, Rapid7 and more

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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Microsoft's Sarah Bowden joins Pax8

She will lead the region’s sales and marketing strategy and partner engagement, reporting to Lindsay Zwart, EVP and GM of APAC at Pax8. 

Cythera appoints Jason Whyte as MD for Australia

Whyte will oversee the group’s overall Australian operations, including the strategic integration of recent acquisitions Seamless Intelligence and Phronesis Security into the Cythera brand - the group’s flagship identity in the Australian market.

Simon Ractliffe to lead Rapid7 in APJ

Most recently, Ractliffe was at Secureworks as regional managing director for Australia, New Zealand, and South East Asia.

Diana Drury joins Dijital Team

She will be working directly with partners to provide practical education, insights, and frameworks that aim to help IT business owners run better, more resilient, and more profitable businesses.

Schneider Electric's Astrid Groves departs

Groves re-joined the company in 2021, having originally come onboard at Schneider Electric in 2005 as a channel manager and worked with the organisation for more than five years.

Christian Petrocco becomes Vanta's APJ channel head

He was previously at SentinelOne for over three years, where he held the role of director of managed security services for APJ.

Intelliworx adds Jas Chawla as head of growth and client relationships

Chawla will focus on strengthening client partnerships, identifying opportunities for growth, and ensuring Intelliworx’s solutions continue to meet the evolving needs of mid‑market businesses.

AWS' Jeremy Cooper joins Databricks

Prior to AWS, he held senior global marketing leadership roles at Salesforce, Google and LinkedIn, where he helped build brands and scale global go-to-market programs.

George Farah joins Tech Data

Farah was previously the channel sales manager for GuardWare.

DNX Solutions names KPMG's Rebecca Sebastian as national sales manager

Sebastian has also held senior sales leadership roles at Microsoft, where she was responsible for leading specialist enterprise sales teams, growing Dynamics CRM and ERP revenue across Australia, and driving partner-led growth through the Microsoft channel ecosystem.

Cloud comms platform Telnyx names APAC channel chief

Jerry Ng joins from Aussie Broadband-owned software company Symbio, where he was business development manager.

ServiceNow specialist Mazing adds risk and cyber security lead

Divya Saxena was previously a senior manager at Cognizant for just over a year.

Novigi adds Devan Naidoo as senior partner

Naidoo joins Novigi from MUFG Pension & Market Services (formerly Link Group), where he most recently served as global technology director of retirement solutions, leading technology strategy and major transformation programs in highly regulated environments.  

Zebra Technologies announces APAC leadership appointments and expanded roles

Tom Christodoulou has been appointed as sales vice president, overseeing Australia & New Zealand (ANZ), Southeast Asia (SEA) and Korea. Based in Singapore, he was formerly the VP of sales for Australia, New Zealand, and India Subcontinent.

Christanto Suryadarma is stepping into the newly formed role of head of partnerships for APAC. Previously, Suryadarma was the sales VP of Southeast Asia, Korea and Channels for Asia Pacific (excluding China). In his new strategic role, Suryadarma will lead Zebra’s partnership strategy and expand a partner ecosystem that delivers asset visibility, connected frontline workers and intelligent automation solutions for the retail, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, and healthcare industries. 

Subramaniam Thiruppathi has been appointed country lead for India Subcontinent (ISC). and Joelle Booi has been appointed country lead for Singapore. 

Ryan Goh, previously SVP and GM of Asia Pacific, will now also lead Zebra’s Global OEM business, driving the worldwide strategy for Zebra’s OEM portfolio, enabling customers to embed Zebra’s solutions like scan engines into their specialised market solutions.