Software program testing and clever automation consultancy Innovo has appointed IT entrepreneur Hamish Leighton as its new CEO, succeeding Nick Finlayson after a decade constructing the enterprise.
Finlayson established Innovo – initially ENEX Consulting previous to its 2020 breakaway and rebrand – alongside COO Abdullah Aksuin in Sydney in 2015, with the pair having each beforehand served as senior leaders at Capgemini following its acquisition of their earlier enterprise, Nu Options.
In the meantime, Leighton co-founded Revolution IT in 2004 and helped develop the standard assurance specialist to a headcount of 500-plus workers earlier than promoting to Pemba in 2019 after which overseeing the agency’s subsequent merger with Shelde to type Ampion, which in flip offered to Wipro the next yr for nearly $120 million.
“Hamish’s strategic perception and confirmed management make him the right option to construct on Nick’s legacy and drive the corporate ahead, reaching Innovo’s imaginative and prescient,” acknowledged Paul Thorley, Capgenimi’s former Australia and Asia Pacific CEO who joined Innovo as chairman on the time of its ENEX break up, and in addition serves as a strategic advisor to shut companion Enov8.
By way of an additional Melbourne base and supply centre in Manilla, Innovo offers a spread of companies grouped round high quality engineering & testing, clever automation, shopper knowledge proper compliance, and digital transformation, with federal & state authorities businesses and organisations in monetary companies, telecom, retail, and transport sectors among the many agency’s clientele.
Talking with business publication ARN, Finlayson, who will now give attention to buyer improvement and gross sales, mentioned consideration had turned to bringing in a brand new CEO as soon as the corporate reached the eight-figure income mark, with a perception Innovo might double in dimension once more over the approaching yr. The six-month search landed on Leighton, with the 2 events already well-acquainted.
“There comes a time in each founder’s journey when stepping apart for an skilled CEO is the most effective resolution for the enterprise,” Finlayson commented. “Given Hamish’s outstanding observe file of scaling and remodeling firms, and with Paul’s strategic steering as chairman, I’m assured Innovo will obtain our formidable targets.”
In response, Leighton mentioned the possibility to work with Finlayson once more was one of many sights of the function, and that the intention was now for fast development; “I’m fortuitously coming in at a extremely thrilling time for Innovo and there’s a big pipeline of alternatives. We’re going to have a shift in focus within the subsequent twelve months and actually scale the enterprise rapidly. It’s a improbable problem.”
