Pictured from left to proper: Michael Simkovic and Wayne Gowland.
Following their current strategic merger, Australian expertise consultancies CSO Group and xAmplify will now relaunch below the title MARQ1 from the start of subsequent month.
Perth-based CSO Group and xAmplify of Canberra joined forces in late June, in what the companions described because the creation of Australia’s largest home-grown built-in cybersecurity and AI consulting and companies supplier.
Now, the mixed entity will forge forward below the MARQ1 banner, boasting a workforce of 160-plus cyber, automation and AI specialists led by CSO chief Michael Simkovic as CEO, whereas xAmplify’s Wayne Gowland takes on the COO function.
“MARQ1 represents the synergy and shared imaginative and prescient of CSO Group and xAmplify and demonstrates our dedication to delivering unparalleled worth to our prospects,” Gowland said. “We now have bold objectives each by way of the degrees of excellence we ship to our shoppers in addition to for our personal progress and contribution to the Australian digital consulting and expertise ecosystems.”
Along with Gowland and Simkovic, who will respectively deal with operations & gross sales and total strategic route, MARQ1’s govt group will embody recently-appointed IT veteran Howard Fyffe and xAmplify COO Tom Scicluna as twin chief income officers, splitting their duties between state authorities & personal sector shoppers and federal public sector & ACT ones.
MARQ1’s high technique management function has additionally been divided down the center, with CSO chief technique & expertise officer Hank Clark to change into head of technique for cyber & intelligence, and former Division of Well being chief info officer Daniel Keys – who joined xAmplify in 2022 as Head of Futures & Innovation – to be given technique oversight for AI & automation.
“We’re delighted to unveil MARQ1,” Simkovic said. “Our new identification signifies our shared dedication to delivering distinctive companies to our prospects, whereas our new administration construction is a testomony to our nice management expertise and can assist seamlessly combine and streamline each side of our enterprise as we come collectively to create one thing really distinctive.”
Whereas the merger companions have revealed their new title, MARQ1’s contemporary branding gained’t be unveiled and rolled out throughout the agency’s web site, social media and different advertising platforms till the first of October following the anticipated finalisation of the deal on the finish of this month – which as soon as full will create a enterprise with revenues probably above the $100 million mark.
“We see an unlimited market and progress alternative to disrupt and problem the massive international service suppliers,” Simkovic stated upon the merger announcement. “The combination of the 2 corporations will create an amplifier impact, enabling us to ship a brand new era of revolutionary and built-in options with the convergence of cybersecurity, automation and AI applied sciences.”
