
A brand new know-how consultancy – Nexifi – has been launched in Melbourne by former Versent executives Robert Frendo and Carl Rigoni, with a group of over 30 professionals already in place.
Nexifi will provide a variety of technique, product improvement, and optimisation companies grouped round CX and digital, knowledge & AI, cloud & DevOps, and CRM (buyer relationship administration), with a group crossing from Rigoni’s 2018-founded digital consultancy SixSix. .
“After seven years as CEO of SixSix, I’m thrilled to announce the launch of Nexifi,” Rigoni said. “Beginning a brand new enterprise is rarely simple, however with a tremendous group behind us, Rob and I couldn’t be extra assured in what now we have got down to obtain collectively.”
Along with his CEO function for SixSix, Rigoni has additionally been serving as a product and buyer expertise director at Versent, the place Frendo has been companies managing director for the previous 5 years. Earlier, the pair additionally labored collectively in senior positions at Sensis and Australia Publish.
Talking with CRN, Frendo mentioned Nexifi addresses a necessity within the Australian marketplace for nimble, outcome-based suppliers; “There’s lots of consultancies on the market, however we place ourselves as an outcome-driven enterprise. We don’t see ourselves as a project-based organisation that flies in and flies out – we’re an answer, not an ingredient.”
With the SixSix product & digital expertise group transitioning to Nexifi, its twin managing administrators have additionally made the purpose that by way of recruitment (the corporate presently has 15 open roles), it will be concentrating on high-level expertise, however can even have a powerful concentrate on folks & tradition and place an equal emphasis on worker and buyer expertise.
To date, these to have joined the fledgling advisory embody SixSix COO Peter Barclay in the identical function, and Kroum Klutchkov as head of digital engineering, the previous who likewise held senior positions at Sensis and Australia Publish and the latter ex-Versent. In accordance with experiences, Versent, which offered to Telstra for $267 million in 2023, will proceed its sturdy affiliation as a consumer.
In the end, Nexifi champions the nexus of product, consumer expertise and engineering; “We do not divorce the three, and what we have a tendency to search out after they come collectively is that we get the optimum end result for the client,” mentioned Frendo. “We definitely spend lots of time, maybe greater than different tech organisations, engaged on our product structure, companies ladder, and validation course of.”