Oxygen makes two senior appointments to head New Zealand operations
Friday 30 July 2010, 4:05PM
By Oxygen Business Solutions
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Oxygen Business Solutions, the largest specialist SAP provider in New Zealand and Australia, has appointed Damian Swaffield to the position of New Zealand General Manager, Consulting, and Datta Supomo to the position of Business Development Manager, New Zealand.
Oxygen Chief Executive Mike T. Smith, says Swaffield brings a significant level of leadership experience and business knowledge to the position, having worked in the professional services industry and fulfilled CIO and CTO roles across a diverse range of businesses.
“He has considerable expertise in managing very large and complex business transformation and IT related projects. He also has significant sales and business development experience gained during his time working at KPMG and as an independent consultant.
Prior to joining Oxygen, Swaffield’s previous roles included CIO at SKYCITY and CIO / CTO at TVNZ.
“He brings a strategic thinking approach to business issues, markets and technologies, which will provide customers with plenty of ideas on how they can best maximise the value and use of their SAP solutions.”
An internal appointment, Datta Supomo was previously Oxygen’s Business Manager for Australian Government projects. Based in Canberra, he has successfully created a well respected reputation for Oxygen’s SAP delivery over the last three years.
“Datta will relish the role of business development manager, having established start up sales offices for IT services organisations internationally on three separate occasions during his career,” says Smith. “He has great knowledge of the SAP product set, markets and competitors and is the perfect candidate to continue building on our strong growth in the New Zealand market.”
Both roles are effective immediately.
About Oxygen
Oxygen Business Solutions – a UXC company – is the leading specialist SAP consulting and services company in Australasia. Oxygen’s key point of difference is its ability to deliver a complete lifecycle of SAP capabilities including Planning, Implementation, Enhancement and Support services.
Oxygen is a certified SAP services partner and an SAP Customer Competency Centre. Oxygen is a consistent winner of SAP ‘best implementation’ awards. In 2007 it earned ‘Best SAP Innovation’ for a strategic consulting project at Alinta Limited, one of Australia’s leading energy infrastructure providers, and ‘Best mySAP CRM Project’ for the implementation of a Customer Interaction Centre at SCA Hygiene Australasia, the leading hygiene products company in the region.
Oxygen is a foundation sponsor of the SAP Australian User Group, contributing resources and expertise to share knowledge and experience to the benefit of SAP users everywhere. Oxygen’s 200 highly-skilled and experienced consultants work from offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Auckland and Wellington, supporting 3,000 SAP users at 200 customer sites.