Managing Director – AI & Automation

Candidate Description

An accomplished technology executive and enterprise AI architect with over 25 years of experience guiding organisations in Australia, Asia-Pacific and the United States through large-scale cloud, data and AI transformations. Leveraging deep expertise in Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform and advanced AI platforms such as Azure OpenAI and AWS Bedrock, this professional excels at designing sovereign, governed and production-ready generative-AI ecosystems for sectors ranging from Government and Defence to Financial Services and Telecommunications. Their executive presence is matched by hands-on architectural credibility, enabling them to translate complex emerging technologies into commercially viable solutions that resonate with C-suite stakeholders.

Demonstrated technical breadth includes crafting enterprise reference architectures, orchestrating RAG and multi-agent systems, and embedding MLOps/LLMOps and Responsible-AI controls into modern engineering practices. Adept at Agile, DevSecOps, SRE and ITIL 4, they have led distributed teams to modernise more than 30 business-critical platforms on AWS, Azure and GCP, consistently improving reliability and AI-readiness. Notable accomplishments include doubling a Consulting Firm's AI-led revenue, winning AUD 200 million-plus in generative-AI deals and achieving 45 % MTTR reductions through AIOps-enabled managed services.

Beyond technical mastery, they bring strategic leadership, mentoring and ecosystem management skills, having built and guided practices of 20-plus architects while sponsoring upskilling programmes that certified over 375 practitioners across Azure AI, AWS ML and GenAI. Their ability to forge strategic alliances with Microsoft, AWS, OpenAI and Anthropic, coupled with active NV1 and NV2 clearances, positions them as a trusted advisor capable of driving transformative, secure and responsible AI initiatives. This blend of vision, execution and stakeholder influence delivers measurable value and sustained competitive advantage for clients and employers alike.