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• Matt Gurrie joins Simplot as CIO

  ​FMCG food company, Simplot Australia, has found itself a new CIO with Matt Gurrie taking up the role in January.

• Brett Wilson new McDonald Jones CIO

  Brett Wilson is the new CIO at home designs and building company, McDonald Jones.

• University of Sydney hires new CIO

  The University of Sydney has hired Mike Day as its new CIO. Day started in the role this month and has taken over from Bruce Meikle, who is now director, enabling technologies at the university.

• Barry Simpson moves into global CIO role at Coca-Cola

  Barry Simpson, former group CIO of Coca-Cola Amatil (Asia Pacific bottling partner of Coca-Cola), has moved into a global CIO role at The Coca-Cola Company.

• Colin McCririck moves into CIO role at eHealth Queensland

  eHealth Queensland has found itself a new CIO and chief executive – Colin McCririck, who was CTO at Queensland Health for about a year.

• Ex-CIO Rafaela Salzer on making the leap from corporate to startup

  From stringent processes to Agile, from big budgets to small ones, from wearing only the IT-business hat to wearing all hats – there is a lot to learn when leaving the corporate world to build a startup.

• The data and digitally driven CIO

  Samir Mahir reflects on his career following his departure as CIO of Tennis Australia, an organisation that is hungry for technology innovation.
  

• Simplot on the hunt for a CIO

  FMCG food company, Simplot Australia, is in need of a CIO who can find opportunities to improve business with customers and internal operations through technology.

• Claire Howlett grabs CIO role at Dept of the Environment

  Claire Howlett has taken on her first CIO role, moving up the ranks at the Department of the Environment.

• Former Dept of the Environment CIO now in analyst role

  Al Blake has begun in his new role as principal analyst, public sector at Ovum, having left his role as CIO at the Department of the Environment in January this year.

• Ex-Foxtel IT chief becomes Fairfax CIO

  Fairfax has announced it has a new IT chief coming on board this month – Foxtel’s ex-CIO, Robyn Elliott.

• Still long way to go to close IT gender gap

  The gender gap is still pretty wide in the IT industry with the number of women working in the most popular technology fields not even coming close to 50 per cent, according to IT recruiter, Greythorn.

• Fairfax CIO: IT-business collaboration requires customer and external focus

  The tools necessary to fostering a collaborative culture are sitting outside your company’s four walls and in the hands of your customers, according to Fairfax’s outgoing CIO, Andrew Lam-Po-Tang.

• CIO Vito Forte leaves Fortescue Metals

  CIO of Fortescue Metals Group, Vito Forte, will leave Fortescue Metals at the end of January, a company spokesperson has confirmed.

• CIO year in review

  2014 was an eventful year for CIOs, with many starting new initiatives in mobility, wearables, machine learning and tapping into open data. Many CIOs also decided to change jobs and move to greener pastures.