RickMVosila

Rick M Vosila
Vosila Pty Ltd

Rick Vosila is seasoned campaigner in the IT industry. He commenced in this business in 1982 with IBM Australia Limited as a Computer Operator, and his most recent permanent appointment has been as Chief Information Officer for Chubb Security Holdings Australia Limited, concluding in early 2005.

Rick currently holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing) from the University of Western Sydney; an MBA from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management; and is a Member of the Australian Computer Society.

In his last three permanent roles, Rick has served as Chief Information Officer for both Chubb Australasia and Unilever Australasia, and as Chief Technology Officer for Goodman Fielder Limited. All these multinational businesses have revenues in excess of $ 1 billion. Rick also Project Directed a major ERP implementation whilst at Unilever Australasia.

Rick is experienced in working with organisations in the development of IT strategy, having done this at both Unilever and Chubb. He is a proponent of the Hax Methodology(1) – a structured approach to strategy development.

In his recent appointments Rick has focused heavily on process discipline, and so has a strong IT Governance bias. This includes the deployment of IT Service Management disciplines; IT Project and Program Management processes; KPIs and Metrics, and where required, Sarbanes Oxley Controls (for US SEC Registrants and their subsidiaries).

Rick has been involved in several large Organisational Change and Major System Implementation initiatives, having successfully navigated significant changes of this type at Unilever, Goodman Fielder and Chubb.

Today, Rick leverages his experience as an independent IT consultant, helping businesses get the most out of their IT investment, particularly in the areas described above: IT Strategy; IT Governance; Strategic IT Sourcing; Large Scale System Implementations; and Project and Program Management.

1 The Strategy Concept and Process – A Pragmatic Approach; Arnaldo C Hax and Nicolas S Majluf