Open Universities Australia’s chief information officer Michelle Beveridge has quit her post and will be moving to a newly created CIO role at Peak Adventure Travel Group. Beveridge – who has been in the role since July 2010 – finishes at the organisation on May 9 and will start her new role in Melbourne on May 26. Anthony Russo, the organisation’s current ICT director, is the interim CIO. Prior to this role at Open Universities, Beveridge was CIO at IDP Education, and general manager, information services at insurance firm OAMPS Limited. She is currently chairman of the Victorian branch of the Australian Computer Society, and was chairman of the Victorian ICT for Women Network from 2007 to 2009. Read: Open Universities pushes distance education to IT majors Read: Leadership’s tug of war Recently, Beveridge oversaw the roll out of a learning management system – Open2Study – which enables universities to offer free online courses; as well as the Salesforce Sales Cloud, which representatives use to help students find the most appropriate courses. The data is shared with call centre agents who already know the details of each student when they first contact a customer service representative for support. Beveridge has also moved all of all Open Universities’ production systems into public and private cloud infrastructure. Related content brandpost Resilient data backup and recovery is critical to enterprise success As global data volumes rise, business must prioritize their resiliency strategies. By Neal Weinberg Jun 01, 2023 4 mins Security brandpost Democratizing HPC with multicloud to accelerate engineering innovations Cloud for HPC is facilitating broader access to high performance computing and accelerating innovations and opportunities for all types of organizations. By Tanya O'Hara Jun 01, 2023 6 mins Multi Cloud brandpost Survey: Marketers embrace AI at expense of metaverse investments Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has quickly rocked the world of marketing. Sitecore polled B2B marketers on their perceptions of GAI. Here’s what they said. By Dave O’Flanagan, Sitecore Jun 01, 2023 4 mins Artificial Intelligence news Zendesk to lay off another 8% of its staff, cites macroeconomic issues The new tranche of layoffs comes just six months after the company let go of 300 staffers and hired a new CEO in order to navigate its operations through macroeconomic distress. By Anirban Ghoshal Jun 01, 2023 3 mins CRM Systems IT Jobs Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe