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Data centre provider NEXTDC has made two new executive appointments as it moves to enhance government relations in Australia.
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Matt Holden has been announced to take up the position of head of government and Scott MacLeod as head of government strategy, under the changes announced by the company on 15 November.
Both appointments are designed to form part of the company’s investment in supporting key government and Defence agencies and meet demand across federal and state governments as well as local government areas and the defence sectors.
MacLeod, formerly with the Royal Australian Navy, Australian Public Service, and head of the national security and defence solutions architecture at AWS, brings more than 40 years of experience across intelligence, cyber security government, information and communications technology to the Canberra-based role.
Holden, formerly with CBRE and Hewlett Packard, brings more than 30 years of experience in technology infrastructure and cloud systems knowledge to the role.
“NEXTDC welcomes Matt as head of government and Scott as head of government strategy,” according to NEXTDC chief customer and commercial officer David Dzienciol.
“Their appointments signal our ambitions to meet the significant demand within these key target sectors.
“Led by our NEXTGOV offering, we are looking to partner with government and Defence, and deliver our highly secure, national digital infrastructure to meet the needs of Australia’s digital-first strategy.”
Both the executives are tasked with actively progressing the company’s approach to supporting the Australian government and Defence organisations’ ongoing and emerging digital infrastructure requirements, ensuring solutions at NEXTDC are compliant, secured to the highest government standards and future-ready.
“I am excited to be joining NEXTDC at a pivotal time in the business,” said NEXTDC head of government Matt Holden.
“As government customers consider continued investment across cyber strategies and grapple with new technologies like Gen AI and machine learning, NEXTDC is uniquely positioned to provide the critical infrastructure required for the management and sovereignty of secure government systems from our locations that provide national coverage.
“We have a firm vision to augment the government specificity of what NEXTDC has already built and grow the most complete ecosystem in the industry to keep Australia’s government and citizen data secure right across the country.
“Our goal is to listen and respond to our customers’ needs, while continuously enhancing NEXTDC’s government offerings at each of our facilities.”
NEXTDC head of government strategy Scott MacLeod said: “NEXTDC’s facility coverage across Australia and New Zealand offers government specificity and optionality on security, network, engineering and operational excellence, demonstrated by our Uptime Institute certification, which is unique to NEXTDC in this market.
“This compliance aligns with the state, federal and defence requirements for their digital strategies both today and well into the future.
“NEXTDC has invested and built an integrated digital infrastructure network which combines the largest ecosystem of partners with government level security, certifications and operational excellence, a truly unique, nationwide infrastructure capability to meet the security and resiliency levels required for Australia’s digital economy.”
