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Movers and shakers: New CIO, post-CIO and CEO roles

Movers and shakers: New CIO, post-CIO and CEO roles

A look at the latest business technology executive appointments in New Zealand and Australia.

Pam Nobbs moves to manufacturer The Comfort Group as head of IT.

Scott McCool
Scott McCool
Scott McCool has been promoted to group vice president of information technology and CIO at Polycom. McCool joined Polycom in July 2013 as vice president of information technology and chief information security officer. Prior to joining Polycom, McCool directed global infrastructure engineering at Brocade.

Gavin Jones
Gavin Jones

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Gavin Jones is appointed managing director Australia and New Zealand for Pivotal. It is a newly created role, and he will report to Melissa Ries, vice president and general manager for Asia Pacific region. Before joining Pivotal, Jones was the vice president and general manager for Good Technology.

Cigna New Zealand appoints Lance Walker as its new CEO based in Wellington, succeeding Gail Costa who was promoted to CEO for developed and developing markets for Cigna International in Hong Kong. Walker was most recently CEO of Loyalty New Zealand which operates Fly Buys.

Quentin Long, cloud solutions engineer at Fronde, is the first winner of the “My PRTG Dashboard” competition by network monitoring solutions provider Paessler AG. The contest recognises the most extraordinary and creative PRTG dashboards. Long uses the PRTG Dashboard to offer a visually appealing display for Fronde’s partners including Amazon Web Services and its customers.

Ruslan Kogan
Ruslan Kogan
Kogan.com, a major online retailer in Australia, launches in New Zealand. “Most retailers sign exclusive distribution agreements with their suppliers. We don’t do this," says its founder and CEO Ruslan Kogan in a statement. “We have built a proprietary cloud based system that makes the leading distributors from around the world bid on a daily basis to win our orders. As a result of this, our distributors know that no matter how many football games and concerts they offer to take us to, they’ll only win our orders if they are the cheapest for that product on that day.”

Data security provider Vormetric launches in Australia and New Zealand and appoints Damian Harvey as country manager.

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Damian Harvey
Damian Harvey

As a digital economy and society, we urgently need to adopt a ‘data-centric’ model and move away from the illusion that perimeter security is working.

Damian Harvey, Vormetric

"Data is the new currency. Whether you’re talking personal records, credit details, medical records, blueprints to a proprietary device – data is valuable to criminals and other actors. Everything from Snowden to the major retail breaches is confirming that cybersecurity has been focussing on the wrong thing, working from the outside to the inside, instead of the other way around,” says Harvey. “As a digital economy and society, we urgently need to adopt a ‘data-centric’ model and move away from the illusion that perimeter security is working.”

He joins Vormetric from Oracle, where he most recently served as ANZ sales leader for Oracle virtualisation and specialist security products.

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