Category Archives: Whatever Happened To?

Steve Pretzel, once of Pretzel Logic, the dot com that whizbanged in 2003 has kept on keeping on with Supplybase VRS, a venture, acording to WA Business News

all your base belong to us

“The launch of First Point Supplybase later this year will give Western Australian businesses the opportunity to secure a bigger slice of lucrative contracts in the global oil and gas sector. This global online platform for oil and gas suppliers to pre-register, or stake their credentials for work in this booming industry, is the result of UK-based procurement services group Achilles’ acquisition of Perth-based operation Supplybase. ” No, I have no idea what they are refereing to either. The good news is that Steve discarded this jumper after 2004.

The lovely and talented Wendy O’Keefe is now Executive Vice President, Asia Pacific, Westcon Group – Wendy was appointed to her current position in April of 2009. Prior to that, she was Managing Director, Westcon Group Australia and New Zealand. She joined the Company as Vice President of Sales for Westcon in January 2001. Before that, she held several senior management roles for Tech Pacific (Ingram) Australia and New Zealand, and was the General Manager for NJS Technologies, an OEM components distribution business. She has extensive IT & T distribution experience as well as a comprehensive knowledge of channel sales and marketing. Many of us recall her with great fondness from her days in Perth in the emergence of the market, and still miss her bubbling nature. Singapore here I come !

Whither Wendy ?

Mic Henderson, well known for his flair as a sales executive and thoroughly nice individual has joined the Borg Cube known as Cisco, where he will advise all client sites that Resistance is Futile and you will have Cisco implanted in your collective.

Comply.

Mic is ex Lan Systems, and Nortel, and can be found here.

Len Daw has been one of our more successful placements,having joined Beacon Technology in 2001 and managing to fit in quite well. He moved to Objective Corporation in 2009 but has been persuaded by the new executive at Beacon to come back to the future and rejoin the new collective. Do we get another fee ?

Back in 2007 Change Corporation was bought by Darwin based CSG Corporation for approximately $26 million dollars. You see CSG got real giddy after winning some deals,especially that $30M deal with the NT Department of Education at the time. The word is that 2010 sees what was Change Corporation worth a duck egg to CSG with retrenchments and grim tidings. Forbes magazine, however, have a different slant.

Its orright I'm not at work

Perth lost a stalwart at Cognos Perth when Simon Yates  moved to Melbourne. IBM swallowed Cognos later on anyway, and now Simon is now the SAP Business Objects Sales Executive at Clarity Consulting on St Kilda road.  Shame really, I like his jokes. LinkedIn have him here.

Winners are Grinners

After years of grovelling Graham Mosdell has finally been made the Perth manager of Oracle. Previous to that was a Pythonesque Autonomous Collective. Previous to that they had a “Hood Ornament” who was naturally promoted, and thankfully sent East to wreak havoc. (We miss Ian terribly). Nevertheless Mozzie is the General Manager, Western Region, and is sticking. Oracle are hiring, but are DIY-how thrifty! One would think they like shared services….

Bill Cox had a lot to grin about..Execom lives!

Dragging the gutted remains of his old business back from the dead, Execom has killed many fat pigs, and now trades as an Employment Agency-hey but doesn’t the web site frighten the chooks ?