Matthew McCormack will step into the role at UST, moving into the position from Cognizant where he served as head of consulting for Cognizant Digital Business and Technology across the Asia-Pacific and Middle Eastern markets.
UST has highlighted Mr McCormack’s experience in leading some of the region’s largest digital transformations alongside building diverse teams across APAC to support clients to design, build, and scale meaningful experiences to transform their organisations as critical to the hire.
In particular, it was of note that these efforts have spanned a number of industries, including banking and finance, logistics, education, telecommunications, government, and defence.
“Matt’s deep knowledge of the Australian and New Zealand markets, along with his ability to align business objectives, technology investments, and customer outcomes, will be the cornerstone of our accelerated growth in the market,” said Krishna Sudheendra, UST chief executive on the appointment.
“His appointment reflects our focus as we rapidly expand our business across the region. UST is helping our clients into faster adoption of digital transformation, which in turn will help them with faster time to market in new product offerings, expand their business, and improve their revenue and margins.”
UST had recently announced that it is hiring over 10,000 new staff globally, with a focus on acquiring expertise in the digital transformation space, alongside proficiencies within cyber security, cloud infrastructure, java, data science and engineering, application development and modernisation, AI/ML and automation (RPA/IPA).
“Matt brings to UST deep expertise in strategy and operations and building a high performing consulting business,” said UST COO Alexander Varghese.
“Matt joins us at a time when we are investing heavily in the ANZ market and bringing our solution capabilities from across the globe to benefit our customers in the region.
“Matt will lead our business expansion, client relationships, talent growth, industry and academia partnerships, brand building, and social impact initiatives in Australia and New Zealand. I look forward to working closely with Matt as we take the business forward.”
Speaking on his appointment, Mr McCormack said he was excited for the new opportunity, emphasising how UST’s values align with his own.
“I see a huge potential for UST to be the market leader in the human-centered digital transformation space in Australia and New Zealand, especially with the breadth and depth of offerings and the global partnership ecosystem UST has built over the past 22 years,” he said.
“For me, joining UST is more than seeing the potential in its people, products, and platforms. It is about the importance of purpose – transforming lives – and how it is embedded in the DNA of the company.
“UST’s focus on positive social impact deeply resonates with me, and offers an ideal environment to incubate and reinvigorate meaningful careers of top-performing talent.”
