Stuart holds two senior executive positions at DXC Technology. These roles recognise his ongoing success helping customers achieve greater business agility with SAP’s world class application platform and his enthusiasm for DXC’s mission to help New Zealand organisations embrace digital transformation excellence.
His appointment as DXC’s Country Leader for New Zealand sees him draw on DXC’s extensive global network of technology partners to offer local organisations independent digital innovations that not only simplify IT but deliver real business advantage.
As Director and General Manager for DXC Oxygen, Stuart leads the DXC SAP team across Australia and New Zealand.
Stuart was appointed CEO at Oxygen in 2012 after fulfilling the role of General Manager – Consulting and Solutions in Australia for four years. He has undertaken several key executive roles for Oxygen since the company’s inception in 2001, following one of the first ever SAP implementations in New Zealand at Carter Holt Harvey.
Over the years, Stuart has been instrumental in shaping Oxygen’s business strategy and service delivery model. Following the GFC he helped reimagine Oxygen’s go-to-market capabilities, building out the depth and breadth of its offerings with strategic acquisitions of specialist SAP consultancies. This activity ensured Oxygen met customer demand for emerging technologies and new deployment methodologies, leading the market in the delivery of cloud-enabled solutions, e-commerce and customer experience applications.
Stuart understands the organisational and operational issues that large enterprises face and brings a clear focus on the technical change programs that must be adopted in order for businesses to reach new levels of performance and productivity.
Stuart has an MBA and a Grad Dip Bus (Admin), both from the University of Auckland.