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Anna Clive is the former CIO of Aussie Broadband. Anna thrives on on leveraging technology to drive innovation and enhance customer experiences. With a track record spanning various industries, including fintech, media and telecommunications, she excels in strategic planning, product development and operational excellence. Known for her strategic, consultative, and data-driven approach, Anna has a knack for building high-performing teams and fostering inclusive working cultures. Her superpowers lie in developing and implementing business strategies aligned with stakeholder objectives, enhancing competitive advantage and championing innovation. With expertise in leading diverse functions such as product, marketing, operations and technology, Anna brings a holistic understanding of business dynamics and customer needs. Her key capabilities include strategic leadership, technology innovation, post-merger integration and data-driven decision-making.

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Joanna Dalton is the Head of Cyber Defence at REA Group where she is responsible leading the operational security strategy for Australia’s largest proptech company. She has over 17 years of experience in digital forensics and incident response and has a PhD in artificial intelligence, data mining and network file systems. Joanna loves analysing large data sets to uncover malicious activity and is driven by helping to make the worst day in IT security just that little bit better.

Joel enables a team of amazing talent to drive quality leadership across Planit’s practices, innovative offerings, and technology services. In his 20+ years within the quality industry, Joel has covered a range of roles including consulting, team management, technical innovation and driving organisational strategy. Joel’s technical experience and enables him to rapidly comprehend complex issues, and his business background helps him to understand requirements and devise quality solutions and outcomes.

Joshua is a methodical and outcome-oriented enterprise sales professional with 10+ years proven success, helping customers drive transformational outcomes through the adoption of operationally-critical technology solutions.

Skilled at multi-threading and cultivating executive engagement across large organisations. Adept at building compelling economic justifications and translating technology risk into business outcomes for a diverse stakeholder audience.

Innovative thinker with robust business acumen and customer-centric principles.

As an executive in Planit’s business, Alex’s focus is on the implementation of the company’s vision and strategy, focusing on quality of delivery and exceptional CX and QX. He has over two decades of testing experience. Since joining Planit in 2008, he built the company’s technical testing division and held key roles of Technical Test Director, CTO, CTIO, and now COO.

Zeeshan is the Lead Cybersecurity Solution Engineer at Delinea with over 15 years of experience in IT security, specializing in Privileged Access Management, identity security, and compliance. He has worked with multinational financial institutions, large enterprises, and government agencies, delivering security solutions and conducting assessments.

With 20+ years experience in relationship, sales and team management, I have focused on driving successful customer outcomes and generating significant revenue streams. Working with some of the globe’s largest and most trusted technology vendors and premier global enterprises.

Customer relationships is my passion and delivering meaningful outcomes has been my core strength. Earning and maintaining trust from a client is proven in my ability to listen, understand and identify the deliverable necessary to provide a positive business outcome. My experience as the economic buyer persona within enterprise has provided a wealth of benefits in a relationship management capacity as a vendor.

Major highlights of my career have included executive sales management in both an acquisition and development capacity for the most valued Customer businesses across ANZ including all layers of government and enterprise for my employers. I thrive in a capacity to deliver results.

My experience includes a broad portfolio of SDDC capability including Cloud, SaaS, IaaS, infrastructure and data security solutions. My deep knowledge of the industry and emerging technologies enables me to grasp new concepts quickly and engage customers directly to assist with strategic outcomes.

Scott Hesford has over a decade of experience in IT security. Before joining BeyondTrust in 2019, he worked as Principal Consultant for CA Technologies and other large enterprises in Australia and New Zealand. A trusted cyber security advisor to enterprise customers, his experience spans across several industries such as banking, insurance, energy and utilities, in addition to state and federal governments. At BeyondTrust, Mr Hesford is an essential contributor in the regional security engineering department, helping enterprises and government agencies improve their security posture against internal and external threats.

Passionate technology evangelist focused on successful outcomes for customers throughout the Asia Pacific Region.