Responsibility for IT at the retailer has now been handed to Steve Binns, who was given a wider remit to his existing role as CIO at Country Road.
Bale subsequently scored a gig as the CIO of GE Capital’s A/NZ consumer finance business, which has since split off from its US-based parent company and been renamed Latitude Finance.
During her two and a half years at the ACC, Milosavljevic and her 70-strong information branch developed a five-year information and technology strategic plan, covering technology, analytics and knowledge management.
In April, Curran again turned to the CBA when he appointed Tim Whitelely as Westpac’s new head of application development. The leadership team was rounded out by former ANZ Bank divisional CIO Jayne Opperman, who later in the year became Westpac’s new general manager of business integration.
Following the promotion, Myer subsumed the CIO role into the new chief digital and data officer position, hiring Mark Cripsey from UK retail giant Tesco.
As part of the restructure, the utility giant appointed three new tech execs, including Brett Redman as executive general manager of finance and technology. In September, AGL reinstated the CIO role by hiring former Commonwealth Bank IT exec Simon Moorfield into the position.
Meanwhile, JB Hi-Fi poached Australia Post's head of retail technology Simon Page to become its first official chief information officer, filling a vacancy left by the departure of former IT head George Papadopoulos.
Within months of the appointment, Aurizon CIO Peow Goh, who reported into Purdie, informed the company he would leave the company after two years in the job.
But Yannopoulos soon after decided to take up a new position as the CIO at the federal Department of Health. However, just five months later, Yannopoulos moved into a new role overseeing the agency's finance division.
The restructure is being overseen by Paul Oppenheimer, who was appointed RMIT’s director of IT in January. Oppenheimer’s official title was changed to CIO ahead of the restructure.
Later in the year, after Harmer was promoted to CEO, IAG split its ICT operations into three new divisions focused on customer experience, technology and operations.
Under the new structure, Rawlins became the 'group executive, digital and technology' and takes over responsibility for the Digital Labs division.Queensland Health eventually promoted chief technology officer Colin McCririck, who had previously been Suncorp’s divisional CIO, into the super CIO role. McCririck has been tasked with delivering a state-wide electronic medical record, and beginning work on the implementation of the health system's new 20-year IT investment plan.