Andrew Rohl will retire as director of the National Computational Infrastructure at the end of 2026, with recruitment now underway for his successor.
Mr Rohl took charge of the country’s third largest supercomputer – NCI’s Gadi – as interim director in March last year.
In a LinkedIn post, Mr Rohl said he had agreed to delay his planned retirement at the end of 2025 to stay on, but recruitment was now underway to find a successor ahead of his departure in December this year.
NCI received $34 million in national common research infrastructure funding in May, but experts have warned sizeable investments will be needed to grow Australia’s supercomputing capacity to clear a crowded backlog of access applications.
Scientists in 2025 called for a $2 billion investment over the next decade to build Australia’s next generation of supercomputing power as Gadi and its sister facility Pawsey neared their end of life.
Graduating Oxford with a PhD in inorganic chemistry in 1991, Mr Rohl was executive director at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre in Perth (then known as iVEC) for eight years through 2012.
He most recently worked six years as director of the ARC Training Centre for Transforming Maintenance through Data Science before joining NCI.
Tech sector association The Digital Industry Group (DIGI) will farewell its long serving managing director Sunita Bose in August.
Joining the not-for-profit as MD and its lone employee in 2019, DIGI said its industry membership had tripled under Ms Bose’s seven years of leadership.
Ms Bose has seen DIGI through a period of successive scandals and intense scrutiny for its members, which include Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft and TikTok, and was one of the industry’s principal voices of dissent to the Albanese government’s social media ban.
DIGI chair and director of government relations eBay ANZ Luke Aitken said the organisation would continue to work closely with members, governments and stakeholders during the leadership transition.
DIGI said recruitment for a successor would kick off shortly.
TechnologyOne on Thursday said it would further expand its leadership team, adding two new executive vice president roles across regulated industries and government as it accelerates its rollout of artificial intelligence.
Current chief financial officer Cale Bennett will transition into one of the new roles, becoming EVP regulated industries.
General manager of investor relations Giovanni Rizzo will assume the CFO position on an acting basis while recruitment for a permanent replacement is underway.
Mr Bennett joined TechnologyOne as CFO in 2023. Recruitment is also underway for the EVP government role.
Battery and life sciences developer AnteoTech has named Scott Waddell as its permanent CFO and company secretary, just over five months after he was appointed to the two roles on an interim basis.
A mining and energy sector veteran, Mr Waddell most recently worked as CFO at Metallica Minerals.
AnteoTech rebranded in 2019 as it sought to commercialise a suite of high performance silicon anode batteries.
Deep tech venture capital firm Scalare Partners have welcomed the return of its founding CFO Jenny Li, who will resume her role after a year’s parental leave
Herve Fievet who has been performing the role since May last year will exit following a handover period.
Data centre hyperscaler NEXTDC has appointed Robert Keegan as its AI & HPC solutions director. Mr Keegan was previously product solution architect ANZ at the developer, and joined the firm in 2024.
Australian founded social media platform Tiny Beans has stepped up Tracy Cho from interim to permanent CEO.
Ms Cho has been with the family photo sharing firm since February, succeeding Zsofi Patterson, who departed in April.
Semiconductor innovator BluGlass has appointed its CEO Jim Haden as managing director, transitioning him from an executive director role.
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