Today I am very pleased to announce Mr John Ball as the inaugural independent Chief Executive Officer of Scyne.
Mr Ball is an incredibly experienced leader spending the past decade leading Google’s customer solutions business in Australia and New Zealand. Prior to this John spent nearly 20 years with Microsoft in multiple roles through Australia, South-East Asia, China and the United States. In addition to his professional experience, John has shown great commitment to serving his community through his board and fundraising for Cure Cancer Australia.
The Board considered John’s commitment to organisational culture, innovation, creating client excellence and a deep understanding of the power of technology as stand out qualities for the first Scyne independent CEO.
John showed genuine passion for the impact of the work that Scyne undertakes in support of Australia’s public purpose.
The Board conducted a thorough process using globally renowned recruitment agency Derwent to assist us with the search. The shortlist contained a number of very high-quality individuals from diverse backgrounds, and we were pleasantly surprised by the depth of talent interested in this role.
To recruit someone of John’s experience and background is a real feather in the cap for Scyne.
This appointment meets a key undertaking made to the Department of Finance to recruit an independent CEO to lead Scyne.
I am very excited at the skills and experience that John brings to the role. As Scyne moves into the growth phase and begins the journey of implementing its five-year strategy, John’s depth of knowledge of the technology industry as well as his skills as a leader are a potent mix for the business we have established. Scyne is purpose driven with ethics at the core and we are driving to be the public purpose advisory business in Australia.
Quote from John Ball
‘I am genuinely excited to join Scyne and lead the team into its exciting future. I was incredibly attracted to Scyne’s purpose led vision and the opportunity it presents to do advisory differently for public purpose in Australia.’
Scyne has nearly a thousand dedicated employees across Australia focused on serving Australia’s public purpose. We are conflict free from the private sector and have established corporate governance principles that differentiate us from our competitors.
Mr Richard Gwilym who has been acting in the CEO role, will now focus on his substantive role as the Advisory business leader.
I want to thank Mr Gwilym for the task he has undertaken in the past 15 months to establish this business. He has undertaken the task with distinction and created the opportunity for the business to be very successful.
Mr Ball will join Scyne on 5 November 2024.
