IFS increases presence with expanding team

Gordon Peters
Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:52

IT People - People

Global enterprise applications company IFS has boosted its Queensland management team with two new appointments, hot on the heels of senior management appointments and the opening of its new offices in Western Australia.

IFS Australia and New Zealand managing director, Rob Stummer, announced the appointment of Duncan Robertson as business development executive and Ben Harkin as pre-sales and functional consultant.  Both Robertson and Harkin will be based in Brisbane and their appointments follow the appointments last month of Rob McCarthy and Kevin West to the company's Western Australia operation to coincide with the opening of its Perth office.

'As part of its corporate strategy, IFS is committed to growing its presence and customer base in the Asia Pacific region. I'm confident we can challenge the status quo and grow our market share further,' Stummer said.

Robertson previously worked in the SAP partner community at Extend Technologies, at IBM as a business development manager, and for 10 years at JD Edwards.

'IFS has a very strong applications suite which has come from many years of working with and listening to its customers. Based on open standards, IFS offers companies the freedom to mix technologies from different vendors which is very appealing, particularly to those who have been technologies from different vendors which is very appealing, particularly to those who have been locked into vendor agreements for many years. In a market that is relatively untapped, this is a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate to those companies that there is a real alternative,' Robertson said.

Harkin joins IFS from Visy where he worked as a reliability systems engineer for four years, responsible for implementing the IFS asset management system into Visy's Pulp and Paper plants. 

According to Stummer, IFS has a strong customer base in Australia and New Zealand in the manufacturing, asset management, aviation and defence markets, with Babcock the latest company to sign IFS up to support its Australian operation.