Our Tech Talent Tracker rounds up all the people movements within APAC's technology industry this past two weeks. Send your appointment news to editors@techpartner.news
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Allen Kim appointed Tanium's ANZ director of channel and alliances
He previously spent seven years with LogicMonitor, holding positions including strategic enterprise MSP sales lead and APAC service providers sales leader.
Matt Moore joins Veeam as director of alliances for ANZ
He joins after a stint as channel director at Cohesity, having served as vice president of channel sales at SnapLogi, and senior manager ANZ for global software ISVs at AWS prior to this.
Kurt Euston joins Everpure as director of alliances APJ
He previously spent nearly ten years with Telstra in various head of and GM roles, focused on leading teams in telecommunications and technology services.
Her most recent role, based out of Singapore, was chief growth officer for APAC and EMEA, a role she held for around 18 months.
Alex Nehmy appointed Dragos APAC field CTO
The move comes following Dragos' acquisition of xIoT security and management platform Phosphorus Cybersecurity, where Nehmy spent nearly two years as regional CTO.
Marcus D’Castro named CEO of Enigma Global Technologies
D’Castro spent nearly 16 years at NRI Australia and New Zealand, where he held roles including GM of transformation, GM of strategic capabilities and EGM of capability.
Dr Prins Ralston appointed as ACS chief executive
His appointment formalises the role he has been serving in an interim capacity since March, following the departure of Josh Griggs.
Adam Hu takes on head of transformation role at Centorrino Technologies
He has been with the company for just over three years, having held the role of head of solution design since the end of last year and, prior to that, serving as solutions architect manager.
David Masters joins Anthropic as ANZ head of policy
He previously spent nearly five-and-a-half years with Atlassian as its head of global public policy.
Anthony Birrell departs Dell
He has served as global alliances manager for Asia Pacific/Japan/Greater China since August of 2021, having first joined the company in 2014. Prior to this, he was a systems account director at Oracle, sales manager for Victoria at Interactive and state sales manager for corporate and government at PIPE Networks.
Robert Schwarz named regional VP of sales at Sailpoint
He was previously MD of ANZ for Nuance Communications between 2014 and 2023. Prior to this, he was at SAP Australia for close to six years, holding such roles as director of ecosystem, director of sales for the southern region, GM of commercial customers and GM of Victoria.
Joe Campbell wraps up a decade at Planview
He joined in 2016 as enterprise account executive before going to serve as regional sales director of APAC, VP of sales for ANZ, and since the start of 2024, country manager for ANZ.
Infotrust hires Michael Higgo as head of assurance
He joins after having served as head of offensive security at Triskele Lab. Prior to this, he was at CyberCX, where he held the role of team lead, and at Orange Cyberdefense, where he was lead security analyst and lead penetration tester.
Pru Loon takes on new challenge
Having served as the head of demand generation for Macquarie Technology Group for close to five years, she now departs to focus full-time on Fractional Growth Partners, her business started in 2025 that aims to helping MSPs scale with fractional CXO expertise. Since 2025, she has also served as the head of demand generation at WinDC.
Santhan Naidoo named MD of Blue Pearl Pacific
He joins the cloud and AI solutions provider after serving as COO of Av-Comm Space & Defence. Prior to this, he was program director consultant of Airservices Australia at Jacobs and the head of delivery for global government at Inmarsat.
Manpreet Brar jumps from Riverbed Technology to VECTEC
He joins as national sales director after nearly five years as regional sales manager for NSW at Riverbed, including a seven-month stint as acting ANZ country manager. Prior to this, he was at Optus for 23 years, holding such roles as client director of strategic accounts for Optus Enterprise, executive deal lead for enterprise sales and acquisition director for enterprise sales.
Michael Henry takes over as GM of sales for data and integration A/NZ at Atturra
He joins after serving as senior director of client solutions of data and AI at Avanade. Prior to this, he was managing partner of data and AI at DXC Technology, director of data and analytics at NTT and director of EY Analytics, Asia Pacific advisory at EY Analytics Asia-Pacific.
Mark Micklefield moves on from Datacom
Based in Auckland, he has served as the associate director of security consulting since April of 2022. He joined in December 2017 as GM of cybersecurity services for the NZ commercial and enterprise segments.
Kevin Kennedy takes on new role at AWS
Based in New Zealand, he is now the partner solutions architect for MSPs across APJ. He was previously the senior solution architect in the AWS partner team since the start of 2023, and prior to that, an enterprise technical account manager for AWS, based in London.
James Way returns to CrowdStrike
He joins as regional alliances manager for the MSSP business in NSW and QLD after serving as territory manager for NSW at Check Point Software. Prior to this, he was at CrowdStrike for five and a half years, with his final role in his first stint being corporate account executive.
Microsoft's Aung Maung leaves after 25 years
He has taken up a role as strategic advisor at DataAIT Technologies. His career at Microsoft saw him serve as regional sales leader of Microsoft Tech for Social Impact ANZ in his most recent role, based in Canberra, as well as acting country GM for Vietnam.
Trio of moves at Extreme Networks
Amanda Spencer joins as senior director of APAC systems engineering after two years at Cloudflare as director of solutions engineering. Prior to this, she was senior manager, solution architecture at Broadcom, as well as senior manager solutions engineering at VMware and Aternity.
James Penton announced his departure, having served as business development account executive for the federal government since October of last year. Prior to this, he was at NTT for close to six years, where he was senior director of strategic accounts for NTT DATA Asia Pacific and ACT sales manager at NTT.
Jayshil Parmar also announced his departure, moving from an account executive role in Auckland to return to Melbourne to join Genetec as a channel account executive. Prior to joining Extreme Networks in 2023, he was at STM Goods in a state manager and OEM projects role.
Vantage Data Centers appoints Emma Chau as director of marketing for APAC
Prior to this, she was head of marketing APAC for WorkForce Software. Her previous roles include senior marketing manager at Equinix and head of marketing for ANZ at AT&T.
Kent Plummer calls time on Aussie Broadband
He has served as wholesale partner manager since 2023, having joined in 2021 as presales engineer. Prior to this, he was wholesale partner manager at Polyfone, Extreme Networks national sales lead at Computers Now and account manager at Optus.
Barry Brown named senior solution engineer for Avepoint
He joins after a year as global enterprise architect at Paratira. Prior to this, he had a close to decade-long stint at Logicalis Australia, holding such roles as lead architect, solutions architect and senior consulting engineer.
Pam Fleming promoted to principal customer success manager at Dynatrace
She joined in December 2024 as lead customer success manager after five years at Cisco. Prior to this, she was at Fuji Xerox Australia for over 12 years, with her final role there being manager of customer and market insights.
Shane McFarlane becomes technical account director at Mycelium 365
Since 2017, he has served as MD and principal consultant at K2 Computer Technology. He has also held roles such as operations manager at Byte, head of service operations at Linktech Australia and service delivery manager at blueAPACHE.
Greg Brindle wraps up at Arista Networks
He joined the company at the start of 2022 as territory manager following two years as an account executive at OpenText. Hs previous roles include account director at Huawei Technologies and cloud engagement manager ANZ at Vocus Communications.
Craig Mulhearn returns to Telstra
He joins on a fractional basis in a product and GTM advisory role, focusing on products within the data and connectivity portfolio. He was previously at Telstra for close to 40 years before departing in May 2021, having held such roles as technology advisor, principal consultant of networks and manager of business development for network solutions. After this, he joined Vocus, where he was GM of network and connectivity products.
Adam Carli swaps SAP for Snowflake
He joins Snowflake as enteprise account executive after serving as senior account executive - enterprise, growth markets at SAP for close to four years. Prior to this, he was an enterprise account executive at WalkMe and a BDM at Thomson Reuters.
Greg Newbegin moves on from Lenovo
He has served as a software and security domain specialist for the last five years. Prior to this, he was a cyberSecurity BDM for VIC/SA at Exclusive Networks Pacific, an endpoint security BDM for ESET and a BDM for A2K Technologies.
David Snaidero's VITG career comes to a close
He came to VITG by way of the company buying Flexible Solutions in 2021, where he had served as an account manager, IT retail store manager and IT system consultant after joining the company in 1990. He served in an account manager role at VITG for the last five years.
Chorus Cyber adds Darren Bennett
He joins as channel solutions lead after six years at Dicker Data, holding such roles as partner strategist, practice lead for Microsoft Modern Work and Security and technical pre-sales lead. Prior to this, he was cloud strategy and enablement specialist at rhipe.
Infotrust's Sumit Singh joins Chillisoft as technical manager
He joined Infotrust at the end of 2020, holding such roles as senior security consultant, lead security engineer and cyber security engineer for pre-sales and implementation. Prior to this, he was at Cisco as technical consulting engineer - professional services and solutions support.
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