IT&T recruitment firm, Greythorn, has appointed a new general manager to run its business in New South Wales.

Microsoft has appointed Laura Ipsen as corporate vice president of its worldwide public sector organisation.

By the end of last year Australia had around 700 too many ICT managers, and 2,700 too few ICT professionals. It’s the classic case of too many chiefs and not enough Indians.

IT services giant CSC has announced that Mike Lawrie will take up the reins as president and CEO before the end of March this year. It’s a case of CEO revolving doors as Mr Lawrie’s previous employer is being taken over by another company which wasn’t planning to make him CEO.

Global e-commerce SaaS provider, BigCommerce, has a new chief engineer of its Australian operation who will oversee the design, development and testing strategy with a team of more than 25 engineers at the company’s Sydney headquarters.

At a time when banks are shedding IT roles by the dozen, it seems counter-intuitive that 83 per cent of the nation’s chief information officers should report they are confident about the future of their business to the extent that 45 per cent expect to hire IT staff in the first six months of the year. The question remains – is this a dead cat bounce?

Australian media group, Yahoo!7,  has boosted its management team with the appointment of former E*TRADE managing director, Stuart Sayer, in a newly created role of chief operating officer.

NICTA has issued a press release celebrating the award of  the Officer of the Order of Australia (AO to its former CEO, Dr David Skellern, but without mentioning his contribution to the development of Wi-Fi technology.

There has been a boardroom shuffle at Australian-listed IT services company, CSG in the wake of Denis Mackenzie stepping down as managing director but remaining a major shareholder of the company and his intention to return to the business later this year in a part time executive role.

The Information Technology Contract and Recruitment Association (ITCRA) has warned of a contraction in Australia’s ICT job market in the next 12 months, after a slowdown in employment towards the end of last year.

Enterprise software provider TechnologyOne has appointed Paul MacRae as general manager for human resources and payroll - not to run those internal functions, but to lead the strategic direction of research and development, customer support, sales, marketing and consulting services across the human resources and payroll business line.

Communications systems integrator, NEC, has appointed a new chief of its maintenance and support services business, NECare, with the company pursuing a goal of becoming the ‘leading ICT services provider of choice’ in the Australian market.

Managed hosting services provider, BlueCentral, has promoted Simon Oliver to the role of general manager – clients and strategy to oversee all client services teams and with responsibility for driving the company’s product and service offering.

Melbourne based consulting firm, 1st Executive has launched an internship opportunity program for businesses and young professionals, including IT graduates, looking to gain experience in the workplace.

ComOps has appointed Don Fletcher as its general manager of development.

Salesforce.com has appointed Vivek Kundra as its executive vice president of emerging markets.

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Optus has appointed Kevin Russell, the founding CEO of Hutchison Telecommunications (3) in Australia to the newly created role of chief operating officer.

The CEO of Ericsson Australia, New Zealand & Fiji, Sam Saba, has been appointed to head Ericsson in Indonesia.

Australian-listed software and IT services company, Sirius, has appointed a new chief to head up its group of companies which include subsidiaries, intelligence software systems provider, Infomaster (IFMA) and its help-desk and operator services provider to government, Sirius Managed Services (SMS).