Vocus appoints Nikos Katinakis as CTO

Vocus has appointed Nikos Katinakis as CTO, effective 1 July 2026.

Based in Melbourne, he will oversee network, security, customer operations, and work health and safety at Vocus, as well as driving the evolution and scaling of the company’s extensive subsea, inter-capital, and metro fibre networks, and build out intelligent automation across Vocus’ networks and operations.

Leveraging his experience in North America, South Asia, and Australia, Katinakis will also oversee Vocus’ design and construction of next-generation, high-capacity metro and inter-capital fibre routes to meet surging demand from data, cloud, and AI workloads.

Most recently, he served as CTO at Zayo Group, a builder and operator of fibre-optic networks in North America and one of the largest global internet backbone service providers.

Prior to that, he held the position of group executive for global networks and technology at Telstra, leading wireless, fixed, transport, and international networks, as well as IT, cloud, data, AI, and cybersecurity functions. 

“As the only scaled builder and operator of fibre networks focused primarily on business-to-business, fixed solutions in Australia, Vocus’ strategy is to leverage our decades-old track record of success and deep expertise to meet today’s escalating demand for fibre networks to enable and power AI," Vocus CEO Andrés Irlando said.

"Nikos has spent his career building and operating fibre networks at scale in the world’s most demanding markets, including North America where AI is driving exponential growth in digital infrastructure demand. Having worked closely with Nikos over the last few years at Zayo in North America, I am confident he will be a game changer for Vocus—and our digital infrastructure strategy.” 

“I am convinced that Vocus has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to be at the centre of the digital infrastructure tailwinds sweeping the globe, including Australia, a market I know well," Katinakis said.

"AI is fundamentally raising the bar for what fibre networks must deliver for customers in terms of design, capacity, reliability, and latency. Vocus uniquely possesses the foundation and expertise needed to build and deliver the next-generation digital infrastructure customers will need to compete in an AI-driven economy.

"Among my priorities at Vocus will be elevating the customer experience end-to-end, making networks easier to order, faster to deploy, and more reliable to operate and support. The combination of digital infrastructure excellence and customer experience will be a powerful differentiator for Vocus. I could not be more excited to join the team and get to work.”

Last year, Vocus completed its acquisition of TPG Telecom's fibre assets and enterprise, government and wholesale business for an enterprise value of A$5.25 billion.