| February 8, 2008
CEOs coming . . . and CEOs going
The new year continues to bring a prodigious turnover among CEOs of Australian companies. Following last week's list (Rust Report, Feb 1, p8) have come reports of several more significant moves.
* Garry Henley has resigned as CEO of Alphawest Services with no particular place to go to. Henley said he intends to spend a few months in Asia and Europe before deciding which direction to follow next.
* Joe Calavassy has been replaced as CEO of Hyro by the company's former COO Bill Votsaris. Votsaris was previously CEO of Synergy Software Holdings, which Hyro acquired in May 2007. At the same time, Nathan Brumby has been promoted to the new position of deputy CEO. Brumby joined Hyro last month.
* David Burden has been appointed CEO of Ansearch. Burden was founder of Legion Interactive in 1994 and was CEO until 2006. Dean Jones, who was appointed Ansearch CEO in May 2007, went to the US to launch Ansearch's subsidiary there and departed soon after.
* Glenn Fielding has resigned as managing director of DWS Advanced Business Solutions. He had been with the company for about seven years, and was at the helm when it launched on the ASX. Danny Wallis will become both CEO and managing director.
* John Lupton, a former CEO of Medcare Systems, has joined IPscape to develop strategic partnerships. He will kick off with the AIIA India NASSCOM Leadership Forum in February.
* Graham Matthews has resigned as CEO and executive director of QuikTrak Networks, which he had joined in June 2007 (Rust Report, June 8 2007, p8). Matthews will be replaced as CEO by Mark Pallister, the company's largest shareholder.
Col Rennie takes role at DiData
Col Rennie has joined Dimension Data as national services director, based in Sydney. He has spent the past 10 years with Avaya, most recently as Asia/Pacific director of quality and customer advocacy, and has also worked for Samsung, Wang, and ICL. At Dimension Data Rennie replaced Mike Patroni, who took the position of NSW solutions manager last year.
Vasic heads Websense A/NZ
Phil Vasic has been appointed Websense A/NZ country manager, based in Sydney. He was previously general manager of sales at SurfControl, which Websense acquired in 2007. He has also worked for Axient and Hewlett-Packard.
Integ takes on two managers
Integ, a company within the UXC group, has appointed Frank Nola state manager for Victoria and Jason Fuller manager of the contact centre solutions group.
Nola was most recently with both Business Integration Solutions and the Convergence Group, while Fuller, who will be based in Brisbane, was most recently contracted to Genesys Laboratories.
Around the Traps
* Allen Taylor moved from E2E Technologies in November and has now joined Utilisoft (formerly FormFill) as commercial director. Utilisoft is a specialist developer of software to manage energy market connections to the national electricity market.
* Kevin Ryder has joined Microsoft as services marketing and communications manager. He was previously general manager of marketing and corporate affairs at KAZ.
* Nicole Schubert has been appointed a senior business consultant with SimCorp Asia. She was previously with Bravura Solutions, which she joined by way of its acquisition of Garradin.
* Bryan Wang has been appointed research director for connectivity research at Springboard Research. He will be based in Beijing. Wang has previously worked for In-Stat and Frost & Sullivan.
* Industry analyst Chris Morris has joined IDC Australia after operating as an independent research consultant for five years.
* BMC Software has promoted Paul Arthur to head of channels for the Asia/Pacific region. He has been with the company for 10 years, most recently as EMEA marketing director.
* Compuware Corporation has promoted Franco Flore to district sales manager for Australia and New Zealand North. He has been with the company for 11 years.
* Michael Game has resigned as a director of Mooter Media and has been replaced by Dale McCarthy. McCarthy is head of corporate development for Fairfax Digital, a subsidiary of Fairfax Media, which is a "substantial shareholder" in Mooter.
* Richard Bevan, an M&A specialist, has been appointed a non-executive director of recently-listed IT services provider Empired. Bevan has also held a number of CEOs' and managing directors' jobs in ASX-listed companies.
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