By Nicholas Greene
Kerry Purcell has been named managing director, Australia and New Zealand, for IBM, replacing Jeffrey Rhoda, who was acting in the role following the retirement of Andrew Stevens in August 2014.
Previously, Purcell served as managing partner of IBM Global Business Services in Japan, where he led and grew IBM’s consulting systems integration and applications for more than three years. Prior to this, he held senior roles in Australia and Asia Pacific with Xchanging, HP Enterprise Services and Telstra.
“I feel very privileged and excited to be appointed the IBM lead for Australia and New Zealand,” said Mr Purcell. “It’s clear that both Australia and New Zealand are undergoing rapid change as the forces of cloud, mobile, social and analytics transform industries.
“Locally we are executing a strong strategy that will meet this pace of change for our clients, and deliver the higher value solutions and services they need to grow and adapt their businesses. IBM continues to make significant investments locally that better enable our clients to take advantage of these market shifts.”
