| February 5, 2010
Connxion restructures for growth
Connxion Ventures has made a number of changes to its executive team and board of directors in order to strengthen the company ahead of some major contracts and to align it for growth.
* Rod Olsen will become non-executive chairman, replacing Ian Smith, who will remain a director.
* Bill Brooks, general manager of Connxion Networks, has been appointed managing director of Connxion ventures and Andrew Phillips, CFO of Connexion Networks, has been appointed finance director of Connxion Ventures. Warren Riddell has resigned as executive director.
* At Connxion Ventures, Cha Loh has been appointed general manager of the company in Australia while Glen Grosic has been appointed general manager for China. Baden Wright, formerly a director of Sonnet, has been appointed director of strategy.
"Connxion is focused on becoming a leading data, networks, payments, and rewards business. There is a well-defined strategy in place to grow these services and deliver an integrated and seamless offering to our customers," Olsen claimed.
OnCard boosts leadership team
OnCard International, an ASX-listed provider of loyalty, rewards, and payments systems, has appointed Jeff Wilson and Joey Zhang to the positions of group general manager. Wilson will be based in Melbourne and Zhang in Shanghai.
Wilson was most recently with Customers Limited, and has also worked for Lifestyle & Rehab.
Zhang was previously the company's general manager for A/NZ and Shanghai.
Craig Gob heads Eaton A/NZ
Power management specialist Eaton Corporation has appointed Craig Gob managing director of its electrical business in Australia and New Zealand. He will be based in Sydney. Gob has worked for the company in the US for 15 years, most recently as regional vice president and director of sales in Texas.
Barnett plugs Bank-in-a-Box
Australian company Rubik Financial has appointed Philip Barnett to lead the sales push for the company's Temenos T24 product. He was previously with Temenos in a number of senior roles, and has also worked in large systems sales positions for Kindle and Misys.
Industry vet to head legal developer
Stephen Wood has been appointed managing director of Leap Searching, part of legal practice management software developer Leap Legal Software. He will be based in Sydney. With 23-years experience in the ICT industry, Wood has worked for a number of companies, most recently at Optus subsidiary Alphawest, where he was general manager of business solutions.
Prowse heads DiData division
Peter Prowse has been appointed general manager of data centre solutions at Dimension Data. He was previously with Hewlett-Packard South Pacific, most recently as manager of the director of the network solutions group. In his life before HP, Prowse worked for IT services provider Interim Technology, IBM, and training company Pollak Partners.
Before entering the IT sector in 1994 Prowse worked in the retail banking and insurance sectors.
Researcher nabs public servant
Industry research company Ovum, a Datamonitor company, has appointed Kevin Noonan research director for the public sector, based in its recently-opened Canberra office.
Noonan worked in public sector IT management for more than 28 years and has since worked as a government analyst.
* Teradata has promoted Noel Pettitt to the position of vice president South Asia. He was previously vice president for the company's South Pacific area and will move from Sydney to Singapore to take up his new position.
* Alasdair MacLeod has resigned from the board of REA Group to follow other business directions. He joined the board in February 2003.
* Richard Holcomb has resigned as a non-executive director of small-cap technology developer Mikoh to travel to the US. He had been on the board for more than three years.
* Dynamic Logic, an online research company operated by Millward Brown, has appointed Adam Hayes manager for digital solutions. He was previously with the company's operation in Europe as senior client services manager.
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