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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 09 April 2007 |
Accounting software vendor Sage Software Australia has appointed Steve Orleow as new Partner Development Manager to support its Business Solutions group and its business partners. He will report to Mike Lorge, managing director of Sage Business Solutions. Orleow has a commercial and strategic background. He trained as a chartered accountant in South Africa and has spent the last decade in commercial and financial roles, primarily in the high tech sector. He has run his own venture capital company, focusing on IT businesses, and spent several years developing growth strategies for new companies, or turnaround strategies for ailing divisions of existing organisations. Before that, as finance and commercial director of iAfrica.com, he was responsible for taking this early Internet publishing portal in South Africa from the business plan to becoming listed entity. Three years ago, and before joining Sage, Orleow came to Australia to establish the local operation of Striata, an electronic billing (EBPP) solution vendor.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 09 April 2007 |
Australian specialist gaming usability firm UsabilityOne, has apointed US playability expert, Keith Steury. Playability refers to the ease with which users can negotiate their way through video games and interactive media; making the technology better for the user and driving sales for the publisher. In the past, Mr Steury. who holds a M.S. in cognitive psychology from the University of Washington, has worked on over a dozen Microsoft games, including the successful Halo series.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 09 April 2007 |
Dow Jones & Company has appointed Mark Hollands to the newly created role of Director of Sales, Asia Pacific, for the Content Technology Solutions unit of the company’s Enterprise Media Group. Prior to joining Dow Jones, Hollands was Vice President of Research Development at IT research organization Gartner. Prior to that, he was editor of the IT section of national daily newspaper, The Australian. Dow Jones has also appointed Andrew Rowe as director of marketing and channel sales for Content Technology Solutions in Asia Pacific. Rowe was formerly the sales director, Asia Pacific of Factiva, which Dow Jones acquired in December 2006. Rowe joined Factiva in 1999 from Reuters as Sales Development Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa. He established Factiva’s Asia Pacific operation and then ran its Customer Service and Customer Development Centre.
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by Stephen Withers
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Tuesday, 03 April 2007 |
Australian managed information security provider MailGuard has doubled its head count over the last 18 months, and four new appointments have recently been made.
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by Stephen Withers
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Monday, 02 April 2007 |
Polycom has appointed Michael Chetner as country manager for Australia and New Zealand. He was previously the director of Polycom sales operations for the Asia Pacific region, and has also worked for BHP Billiton and Vodafone.
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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 01 April 2007 |
Neoware, a provider of thin client computing solutions, has launched in Asia Pacific and appointed Michael McGrath as Asia Pacific managing director, based in Sydney. McGrath brings over 15 years of IT industry experience to his new role, including time spent working with Adobe, Compaq and most recently at Citrix Systems as both Australia and New Zealand alliance director and marketing director. In addition, he has previously helped other US-based IT organisations establish an Asia Pacific regional presence.
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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 01 April 2007 |
Tripoint Corporation, an Australian IT services company, has appointed industry expert Nick Davies as Business Development Manager, Tripoint Managed Services. Formerly running IDC’s benchmarking practice, Davies’ role with Tripoint involves growing the company’s install base of tier one applications and associated managed support services with enterprises nationally. He has more than 20 years IT industry experience in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom and joins Tripoint from IDC Australia and New Zealand, where he established the analyst group’s Benchmarking Services Practice. Prior to his time with IDC, Davies spent four years as the sales manager of Compass Management Consulting.
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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 01 April 2007 |
Wireless messaging dolutions provider Wavelink has appointed Richard Hudson as sales manager, Australia and New Zealand. Prior to his appointment, Hudson was employed at Able/Telenet where he managed its overall strategy in the development and expansion of its product portfolio and sales team. Hudson has also previously worked for NEC, Fujitsu, Alcatel, and Ericsson where he worked in the UK and Sweden. He began his career with British Telecom where he specialised in main and trunk exchange installation and maintenance before immigrating to Australia in 1979.
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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 01 April 2007 |
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Dimension Data has appointed Michelle Homes and Michael Harmelink as application integration practice managers for Queensland and New South Wales, respectively. Homes began her career at the SAS Institute Australia as a technical specialist, moving on to roles including Web developer for GIO, consultant and director at TekEds and Asia-Pacific pre-sales technical consultant for Intergraph. Most recently, Homes was the business development manager at Futrix Software Australia. Harmelink has worked in senior business development roles at IBM and Alcatel in Europe, with Microsoft in Singapore and both Avenade and Snapdragon in Sydney.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 29 March 2007 |
Technology services group EDS has recruited Dee McGrath as Director of Cards for Australia and New Zealand. Ms McGrath was previously general manager of consumer and commercial cards for National Australia Bank where she helped steer the bank through regulatory and payment system reforms. During her six years with NAB, she was also head of marketing and product solutions in the cards division. Ms McGrath has worked in general management and marketing across multiple industries over the years and recently served on the board of Loyalty Pacific.
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