| March 5, 2010
Tales takes control of Hostech
Ilkka Tales has been appointed CEO of ASX-listed IT services and telecommunications company Hostech. He takes over from Carlos Perez, who remains with the company as executive director responsible for Hostech's telecommunications business.
Tales is an industry veteran who was a founder of Engin, and remained CEO of that company until 2007, when he stepped aside to take a strategic role (Rust Report, Aug 3 2007, p8). He was also CEO of direct marketing company Mobile Innovations, and has been a director of Hostech since November 2009.
Synergy Plus appoints Henley CEO
IT services integrator Synergy Plus (once known as ComputerCorp) has appointed Garry Henley CEO, taking over from acting CEO Peter Cappendell, who will become COO.
Henley was a founder of Alphawest and led that company during its acquisition by Solution 6, through a subsequent management buy-out, and then through its purchase by Optus in 2005. He resigned two years ago (Rust Report, Feb 8 2008, p8).
Colopy becomes COO at Panviva
Jack Colopy has been appointed COO of Melbourne-based business process guidance (BPG) specialist Panviva. He will be responsible for the development, deployment, and support organisations for Panviva's BPG solutions, and will split his time between the company's offices in Victoria and Massachusetts.
Colopy was most recently CIO of Accent, a developer of customer lifecycle management solutions, prior to which he was CIO at Harte-Hanks Shoppers.
Adobe builds PR group
Adobe Systems has appointed Julie Cleeland Nicholls and Andy Sommer to its Asia/Pacific communications team.
Cleeland Nichols has been appointed senior group manager for corporate communications for Adobe in Asia/Pacific. Prior to joining Adobe she was with Sun Microsystems, initially as senior communications manager for Asia/Pacific before specialising in the emerging markets division.
Sommer will report to Cleeland Nicholls. He has worked in PR for more than 10 years.
Coleman joins Huawei media team
Luke Coleman has been appointed media relations manager for Huawei. He was previously editor of the CommsDay newsletter.
Chris Miller becomes CIO at Avanade
Business technology service provider Avanade has appointed Chris Miller CIO. He spent the past 16 years with Accenture, where he was a senior director of the Collaboration 2.0 program. From 2003 Miller led a large portion of Accenture's business application portfolio, said Adam Warby, CEO of Avenade.
Bank COO to take charge of ICT
Bank of Queensland has created a chief operating officer's position and filled it with its CFO, Ram Kangatharan. While the COO's responsibilities are to oversee the day-to-day operations of the bank, he will also have accountability for IT and operations.
Rockman chairs fast-growing Nitro
Australian company Nitro PDF Software has appointed Matt Rockman chairman. Rockman, a co-founder of Seek, has not had a corporate engagement since 2006. As chairman he will aim to provide strategic and cultural guidance for the fast-growing company, which was formed in 2005 and recently moved its head office from Melbourne to San Francisco. Nitro is now pushing into Europe following the release of French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, and German versions of its software.
* Andrew Plympton has been appointed chairman of Intermoco following the retirement of Bob Gestro. Plympton was recently appointed a director of Newsat (Rust Report, Feb 26, p8) and is also non-executive chairman of ASX-listed Beyond Sportswear International.
* John Lemish, a founder of Webjet, plans to cut his direct ties with the company by announcing that he will retire from the board at the end of this month and from executive responsibilities at the end of the financial year.
* Jeff Pope, described as "a career IT professional" has joined the board of Hyro. He first worked in the IT industry in 1975, and was vice president of Rational Software from 1997 until 2003. He was with Agitar Software from 2004 until 2008 when it was sold to McCabe Software, and is now on the board of Software Traction.
* Ian Mutton has resigned as chairman and a director of Digislide. He said the move was in recognition that the company has outgrown his "level of involvement", which was to lead it to its IPO.
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