Online search marketer Overture Services has appointed Craig Wax as regional managing director for the company in Australia, India and South East Asia. Mr Wax joined Overture Australia from Yahoo! Search Marketing where he was the senior director of US and Corporate International Marketing.  In this role Wax launched Yahoo! in 20 international markets.

Singapore-based Asia Pacific ISP, Pacific Internet, has appointed Teck Moh Phey as president and chief executive officer effective 16 January 2006. Mr Phey will take over from Hai Chwee Chew, a director of the board and member of its executive committee, who was appointed interim chief during the search for a CEO. Mr Phey has two decades of leadership and management experience in the IT and telecommunications industries. He is currently with Motorola where he served in various senior roles in the Asia Pacific region over the last 10 years, including Asia Pacific vice president and general manager for its government and enterprise mobility solutions business. He is a member of Motorola’s worldwide steering committees for radio products and wireless broadband. Prior to Motorola, Mr Phey rose through the ranks at Compaq to become the youngest general manager in Asia.

Global internet security company SurfControl, has appointed Australian Dr Richard Cullen to chair the company’s new Technical Strategy Council. Located in Melbourne and reporting directly to SurfControl CEO Pat Sueltz in Scotts Valley, California, Dr Cullen will drive the technology direction for the US and UK based company. Cullen, who moved to Melbourne to take up the role, was most recently SurfControl’s technical manager of email products and technology. He has also held positions with Autodesk in Switzerland and Sophos in the UK.

Indian offshore outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has appointed Neville Roach chairman of TCS-FNS, the Australian company established to acquire Sydney-based Financial Network Services (FNS) in October 2005. He will also be an Advisor to TCS Australia.

SAS Institute Australia has appointed Adam Stott as general manager, Financial Intelligence (FI), SAS Australia & New Zealand, a new role based in the Sydney office. Stott joins SAS from Vignette, where he was instrumental in growing the local operations in his five years with the company.  Prior to Vignette, Stott was CFO for PeopleSoft Asia Pacific.

Konica Minolta Australia has appointed David Cooke to the position of general manager, direct sales, Australia.  He will be based at the company’s North Ryde head office. Cooke brings 20 years of business imaging industry experience to Konica Minolta. Prior to joining the company he was with Canon Australia for 13 years and most recently held the position of State general manager for NSW / ACT within the Business Imaging Solutions Group.  Cooke was responsible for more than 70 staff from the sales, marketing, professional services, administration and field services teams. He also worked for Rank Xerox for eight years where he held the position of state manager.

Capgemini Australia has appointed Phil Mottram as organisational change management leader. Prior to joining Capgemini Australia, Mottram was principal of his own change management consulting company for three years.  Previously he was account manager for NSW Government with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young and managed IT transformation projects while with Ernst & Young Management Consulting.  He has also worked with GIO as National Learning and Development Manager for the Risk Management and Compensation Insurance Division.

Networking technologies vendor D-Link has appointed Tony Hospes to the newly created position of consumer business manager. Hospes will join the established D-Link Australia and New Zealand consumer team and report to Marcus Amor, consumer division manager. Prior to joining D-Link, Hospes held sales manager positions with Swann Communications and Targus.

Enterprise applications provider, Technology One, has appointed Rick Anstey to its board of management. mr Anstey has over 30 years experience in the IT&T industry and in associated investment banking roles. He has built and managed a number of his own companies, including the Tangent Group, and several subsidiary companies both in Australia and overseas. Mr Anstey is also the co-founder of InQbator, a Queensland based investment group which provides all facets of venture capital investment and corporate advisory with early stage technology companies, and manages a portfolio of more than 20 companies located across Australia.

Contact centre technology specialist Touchbase has appointed Mark Smallwood as practices leader for Australia and New Zealand. Prior to Touchbase, Smallwood was the NSW CIS manager with Dimension Data.  Previously, he was a senior product manager and manager of Voice Services Customer Care with Telstra Managed Services Products.