In 2024 the tech industry experienced significant changes to adjust to a changing economic climate and corporate readjustments. As a result we saw a number of key leadership changes at tech vendors across the region.
Here are some of Australia's most notable tech leaders who stepped into new leadership roles in 2024, poised to drive their growth into 2025 and beyond.
Notable moves in 2024 and a big congrats to all below and those not mentioned:
- Marie Holmes, joined Alteryx as their Country Manager, ANZ.
- Joe Arcuri recently joined Zero Networks to lead them as their ANZ Country Manager.
- Kristen Pimpini (KP), joined Neo4j as their Vice President & GM APAC.
- David Burke, joined Workiro as their Vice President, Revenue and Operations ANZ
- Anthony Panuccio, joined ProcessUnity as their VP Sales, APAC
- Benjamin Weldon, joined WalkMe as their Country Manager, Australia & New Zealand
- Andrew Manners, joined Rimini Street as their Group Vice President & Regional GM, ANZ.
- Brett Stephenson, joined Earlytrade as their Senior Vice President APAC
- Steve Singer, joined Anaplan as their Area Vice President for ANZ
- Dino Beverakis, joined Cubic Transportation Systems as their Vice President & GM APAC
- Simon Howe, joined ExtraHop as their Area Vice President ANZ
- Barry Dietrich, moved to ServiceNow as their ANZ Group Vice President and Managing Director
- Stuart O'Neill, joined Sitecore as their Area Vice President ANZ
- Kane Fraser, joined CrowdStrike as their Regional Sales Director - Enterprise
- Andrew Foot, moved to leading vendor Dynatrace as Regional Vice President of Sales, ANZ
- Daniel Lodge, joined Seismic as their Vice President, APAC
- Andrew Phillips, moved to Freshworks as their ANZ Country Manager & Vice President!
- Kendal Watt, joined Adaptive Shield as their Country Manager for ANZ
- Will Drysdale, was promoted at ActiveCampaign into their Director of Sales APAC
- Rich McCrum, joined eClerx as their VP of Sales ANZ
- Michael Pyliotis, joined Taxilla as their Managing Director, APAC
- Simon Horrocks, moved to Talkdesk as their Vice President APAC
- Paul Hadida was promoted again this time to Managing Director, APAC GTM at SevenRooms!
- Davinia Simon, joined Accenture as their Industry X Alliances Lead, JAPAC & LatAm
- Mark Hilton, joined Accenture as their Infrastructure and Capital Projects, IndustryX Asia Pacific
- Steve Shaw, joined the Mastermind Group as their Director of Sales!
- Nathan Brown, joined Director GitLab as their Director, Regional Sales
- Peter Synnott, joined Juniper as their Regional Sales Director Service Providers
- James Robertson, joined Lenovo as their Sales Director Public Sector & Enterprise
- John Biviano, moved to Skydio to become their Vice President for APAC & Japan
- Alex Nemeth, moved to Qualtrics to land them as their Country Manager, Australia & NZ!
- Damien Fox-Read, joined VAST Data as their Sales Director ANZ
- Jon Gamble, joined Mav3rik as their Managing Director
- Andy McInnes, joined Barhead Solutions as their Sales Director
- Jose Reboredo, joined Unisys as their Senior Director, Customer Acquisition Asia Pacific
- Matthew Hanmer, is now Regional Director and Managing Director South Pacific at Radware!
- Simo Jovovic, is leading sales as a Snr Sales Director at Ciena Blue Planet
- Andre Carpenter, joined Wasabi as their Managing Director, Australia & New Zealand
- Sam Salehi, leads Qualys as their new Managing Director ANZ
- Clarence Cheah, joined Trellix as their ANZ Country Manager
- Michael Evans, joined Denodo as their Vice President & General Manager ANZ
- Helen Masters, joined Smartsheet as their Managing Director and General Manager!
- Angela Colantuono, was promoted to President and Managing Director at SAP
- Brett Waters, joined Copado as their new Managing Director APAC
- Paul Henaghan, is the new Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand at Cohesity!
- Gareth Williams, moved to Pegasystems as their new Director of Sales
- Anthony Meogrossi, made the move to Avaloq as their new Sales Director ANZ
Congratulations to everyone who moved in 2025!
For those still looking our team at Halcyon Knights is back on 6th Jan, we look forward to talking with you then!
