Speedy Circle has introduced in three senior professionals to its staff, together with IT trade veteran Rodney Hobbs to the agency’s C-suite.
Rodney Hobbs crosses from Wipro as Speedy Circle’s new chief expertise officer, bringing nearly three many years price of trade expertise. He follows within the footsteps of Cassandra Ashworth, who was appointed A/NZ CEO final month.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Rodney as our CTO in ANZ. His appointment is one other instance of how Speedy Circle is attracting and investing in prime expertise to strengthen our place in Australia and New Zealand,” mentioned founder and world CEO Harold Punter, who relies out of the agency’s Amsterdam headquarters.
Hobbs joins the agency in Melbourne after spending the previous eighteen months as Wipro’s core enterprise transformation CTO working alongside Ashworth, earlier than which he held senior management roles at ServiceNow, Vmware, Fujitsu, and DXC Expertise – the latter the place he as soon as served once more alongside Ashworth as A/NZ chief technologist for digital transformation.
“I’m actually excited to have Rodney be part of our staff,” Ashworth mentioned of Hobbs’ appointment. “His ardour and drive can be important in guiding this subsequent part of progress. His huge expertise and thought management will considerably profit our purchasers and significantly speed up how we may help them to modernise right this moment, to maximise tomorrow with the Microsoft platform.”
Punter added that technical experience of Hobbs’ degree was required to satisfy the rising demand the agency is experiencing from prospects for Microsoft-based AI and cloud options following its string of current acquisitions, which have included Insync, Undertake & Embrace, and vNEXT over simply the previous three years, together with Perth-based Microsoft supplier Seven Sigma.
In the meantime, in Perth, Speedy Circle has welcomed Azure resolution director Matthew McCahey, who spent the previous interval as a Microsoft cloud director at Telstra Purple acquisition Versent, earlier than which he spent half a decade as a cloud engineering director at Deloitte.
Having spent the sooner a part of his profession in IT roles for Egmont, CBRE and Rolls Royce within the UK, McCahey then joined Kloud Options in Melbourne, earlier than it too was acquired by Telstra.
In one other senior rent, Speedy Circle has recruited former Dell Boomi Asia Pacific & Japan advertising and marketing head Tania Mushtaq to supervise its personal regional advertising and marketing & relations operate. Mushtaq altogether spent six years at Dell, and has extra lately labored with Rimini Road and as world head of selling for AI and cybersecurity start-up Castlepoint Methods.
