The Department of Defence has found its last missing chief information officer group (CIOG) deputy, ending a year-long period in which it was without a full five-member leadership team. Dean Welsh joined as the department’s ICT delivery first assistant secretary in April, completing CIOG’s line-up of senior executives. He replaces former head Paul Cazaz, who left the department after two-and-a-half years in July 2019 to become ME Bank’s core banking (IT) general manager.
Cazaz’s departure came just two months after Defence’s long-time chief technology officer Aiyaswami Mohan also left CIOG.
Welsh joins Defence from Australia Post, where he spent almost two years as the head of strategy and architecture, as well as enterprise architect for the chief technology officer...MORE
