Business technology optimisation software vendor, Mercury Interactive, has appointed David De Laine as sales director for Australia and New Zealand. He has 20 years' experience working for global IT companies in senior sales and management positions, most recently with IBM Software.

Enterprise CRM vendor, StayinFront, has appointed Eric Moore as sales director for Australia. Moore was previously national business development manager at Copyright Agency Limited. Prior to that, he has worked with large organisations such as Canon, Macquarie Bank, Nestle, News Limited and Toshiba and consulting firms Arthur Andersen Consulting and BearingPoint.  Awarded a Australian Institute of Sport scholarship, Moore also rowed for Australia in the early nineties.

Chip maker AMD has appointed Iain Walker as OEM Manager for the Australian and New Zealand OEM and government markets. Walker joins AMD after five years as a business development manager in the OEM Microsoft Windows team at Microsoft Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Business degree from University of Technology, Sydney.

Business management applications vendor, Sage ACCPAC Pacific, has appointed Santiago Solimei as professional services manager, based in Sydney. Solimei has been involved with business systems for more than a decade in numerous countries. After commencing his career as an assurance consultant at Arthur Andersen in Argentina, he moved to Melbourne with Moor Stephens Technology seven years ago, where he worked as a risk management and internal audit senior consultant for three years. He then progressed into IT consultancy with the organisation in London, Edinburgh and Costa Rica. Most recently he headed the Microsoft Axapta division in Melbourne for three and a half years, where he was involved with assignments in the Australian, New Zealand, Chinese and Japanese markets.

Telecorp Limited today announced the appointment of  Ian Adams as Group General Manager Sales & Customer Marketing for the fast growing, full service, telecommunications company. Adams, has worked in the ICT sales and marketing area since arriving in Australia from the UK in 1986. His management experience includes periods as corporate sales manager at AAPT, several  years at Optus managing strategic corporate accounts and Lexmark International  where he was General Manager Alliances Australia and NZ.

Web hosting services provider, WebCentral Pty Limited, a subsidiary of  WebCentral Group (ASX:WCG), has appointed a new chief information officer, Alec Lawson, based in Brisbane. Before his appointment as CIO, Lawson had been providing consulting services to WebCentral over the past two months.  Prior to that, he also provided consulting services to the not for profit sector in Queensland.  Lawson spent three years as CIO of Queensland utility, Energex, and prior to that was the IT Manager at the City of Sydney during its preparation for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Lawson has also spent more than 13 years in senior IT executive positions in the UK financial services sector. During his time in the UK, Lawson was a member of the Information Systems Examination Board and an executive member of the IT Service Management Forum which developed the global IT industry service quality framework (ITIL) which WebCentral is currently deploying.

Security management solutions provider, PatchLink Corporation, has appointed Corey M Smith as president and CEO. Smith has more than 25 years of senior management experience, including roles as president and CEO of several technology companies. Most recently, Smith served as president of XcelleNet, Inc. Prior to XcelleNet, Smith served as president and CEO of Central Point Software.  He has also served in the post of president and CEO of Creative Multimedia. Smith began his career at Hewlett-Packard where he spent more than 12 years in marketing and sales development for emerging markets. Smith has also served on several boards for software companies including Previo, Crystallize, WellMed and Accelent.