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• Australia's longest-serving CIOs on the changing role and staying engaged

  CIO Australia speaks to three such CIOs on what keeps them at their companies, how the role has changed and why sticking at it reaps big benefits.

• ASX poaches CBA’s CommSec CIO

  Dan Chesterman — currently CommSec and Private Bank chief information officer at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia — has been appointed CIO at ASX.

• Reborn QLD construction regulator seeking CIO

  ​Queensland Building and Construction Commission (QBCC) is seeking a chief information officer.

• A look back at last year’s CIO50: #23 Michelle Beveridge, Intrepid Group

  Intrepid Travel's Michelle Beveridge discusses why she has planted "three seeds" of change which have become the key drivers for a major digital transformation.
  

• Mike Schuman leaves Townsville City Council

  Mike Schuman has left his position as chief information officer at Townsville City Council.

• Edith Cowan CIO to take on new Vic education IT role

  Edith Cowan’s chief information officer, Elizabeth Wilson, is preparing to depart the university and return to Melbourne to take up the newly created CIO role at Victoria’s Department of Education and Training.

• Edith Cowan CIO to depart

  Edith Cowan’s chief information officer, Elizabeth Wilson, is set to depart after more than half a decade at the university.

• New CIO takes reins at Aurora Energy

  Philip Lane has taken the top IT post at Tasmanian energy retailer Aurora Energy.

• National Blood Authority recruits new CIO

  The National Blood Authority has recruited Simon Spencer to take charge of IT at the government agency.

• Tourism Australia recruits Microsoft veteran for CIO role

  Tourism Australia has tapped Microsoft’s local enterprise mobility and security lead, Jason Flynn, to be the organisation’s new IT chief.

• ASX CIO Tim Thurman to return to Canada

  Australian Securities Exchange chief information officer Tim Thurman will return to Canada in early 2017, with the ASX confirming it has begun searching for a new CIO.

• University of Western Australia revamps top IT role

  The University of Western Australia has created a new chief digital and information officer (CDIO) position to replace its existing CIO role as part of a broader restructure process at UWA.

• William Angliss Institute creates CIO role

  William Angliss Institute has created a chief information officer position following a review of IT management at the Melbourne-headquartered vocational training organisation.

• Qantas CIO takes IT gig at Airbus

  Qantas chief information officer Luc Hennekens will next month take on the CIO role at Airbus and Airbus Group in France.

• HSBC Australia CIO moves to COO role

  HSBC Australia IT chief Katie Docherty will move to a chief operating officer role later this year, with the bank in the process of recruiting a new CIO.