Konica Minolta Australia has appointed Paul Dutch to the position of national dealer manager, Australia, based at the company's North Ryde head office. He will report to Frank Mellish, general manager, sales and marketing. Mr Dutch joined Konica Minolta in 1994 and, prior to being promoted to the new role, he was sales manager for the Adelaide branch.

Business Intelligence and interoperability specialist, Information Builders, has appointed Andrew Johnson as a senior sales executive based in its Melbourne office. With more than 30 years experience in the software industry, Mr Johnson has worked with Oracle, Intentia and Axs-One (formerly Computron). He also has extensive experience with the UK Government as a thought leader for the development of their e-commerce initiatives.

Security specialist Cybertrust has appointed Joe Lombardo as Asia Pacific marketing manager. Lombardo was formerly Asia Pacific marketing manager with MessageLabs and his expertise includes strategy development, financial modeling, direct marketing  including direct mail, DRTV, telesales, events, customer management and retention, segmentation analysis, new product development, project management and team leadership. Former Cybertrust marketing manager Jennie McLaughlin has been promoted to general manager commercial sales with responsibility for all non-government customers in the Asia Pacific region. Before joining Cybertrust in 2004, McLaughlin worked jointly for ActivCard and VeriSign in business development, and was also previously employed by Optus in product marketing.

Mobility and security solutions provider SonicWALLhas appointed Chris Barton as regional manager for the Australia and New Zealand region, effective immediately. Barton has worked for the past eight months as the company’s channel manager for the region.  In his new expanded role he will report directly to Antony Chapman, senior director, SonicWALL, APAC/MEA. Prior to working with SonicWALL, Barton worked as the NSW state business development manager for online security firm Sophos Pty Ltd.

Web hoster destra Corporation Limited (ASX:DES) has appointed for Netscape Australia managing director Clive Mayhew to the newly created role of General Manager of its media subsidiary, destra Media. Mayhew is known in Australia for his high profile roles as Netscape’s founding managing director and Solution 6’s group marketing director. In 1999, he was recruited to work in America with Internet Music company CDNOW running the international operations. He also launched the Chello iTV commercial relationships within Europe. Since his return to Australia in July 2005, Mayhew has been consulting to internet company Realestate.com.au helping develop its New Zealand operations.

Demand for senior IT people surged in final quarter of 2005 pushing the the number of jobs on offer in December to a level nearly 40% higher than for the same period in 2004, according to newly released survey.

Consumer electronics company LG Electronics Australia has aappointed a new managing director, Daniel Shin, who commences his role on 30 January. Mr Shin was previously director of sales and marketing, Appliance Division, LG Electronics USA and has spent 15 years in overseas markets including Korea and Spain. Mr Shin's appointment follows the departure of Mr UC Hwang, who returns to Korea after his two year tenure as managing director of the Australian office.

Business optimisation software vendor, Mercury Interactive, has appointed Graham Sowden as president of Asia Pacific, based in Sydney. Sowden has served as managing director for Mercury's Australia operations since 2000. He has more than 16 years of experience in the enterprise software and technology industry. Prior to Mercury, Sowden was managing director of Progress Software, a provider of embedded database software technology, for two and a half years. Prior to joining Progress Software, Sowden was a ten-year veteran at Fujitsu (UK) where he headed up various customer support, sales management and general management roles. He joined Mercury in 2000 to lead its Australian operations. In his new role, Sowden will oversee the APAC region, not including Japan. He replaces former Japan and Asia Pacific president Wilson Tan.

Storage vendor, Hitachi Data Systems, has appointed Scott Familton as the new practice manager for managed services in the Asia Pacific region. Familton previously worked at Veritas and IBM, where he managed several large customers as strategic account manager.

Enterprise applications provider SSA Global has appointed Graeme Riley as managing director, SSA Global Pacific Region. Mr Riley will report to Jeremy Goddard, vice president, South Asia Pacific, SSA Global. Mr Riley held the former position of general manager for SSA Global New Zealand. He joined SSA Global in January 2004 as general manager for SSA Global New Zealand and has over 30 years of experience in IT management.  He began his career at Computer Consultants where he was the operations manager providing national Mitsubishi dealer networks with IT solutions. From there he established his own computer bureau company called Valley Computers.  Mr Riley then joined GEAC Computer Corporation as managing director, Asia/Pacific. He replaces Jeremy Goddard, who has been promoted to SSA Global’s regional vice president for the South Asia & Pacific region.

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.