Rapid Circle, a leading Microsoft-based solutions provider and consultancy, has bolstered its Australian leadership team with key appointments to support booming revenue growth and customer acquisitions.

Rapid Circle ended fiscal 2024 (July 2023 to June 2024) with 50 per cent year-on-year growth in managed services as it converted on demand for intelligent workplace, generative AI, cloud migration and security solutions. It expects to close the 2025 financial year with a further 30 per cent year-on-year growth.

During this period, the company completed its acquisition of vNEXT, and signed more than 10 new high value enterprise contracts and expanded existing customer agreements by 27 per cent. This included high profile wins in the energy and utilities, education, manufacturing, financial services and entertainment industries with companies such as Toyota, Hunter Water, Judo Bank and the University of Sunshine Coast.

To support Rapid Circle’s sustained expansion, Brian Williams and Frederique Dennison have been appointed into the newly-created roles of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Alliances Director, respectively, bringing with them a combined 55 years’ IT industry experience.

Brian Williams as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Williams is an information and cyber security veteran, having led technical and security teams at Telstra, Optus, NEC, NTT and Wipro Shelde. At Rapid Circle, he is tasked with accelerating growth across key verticals, including government, where recent transformations have triggered new investment to meet rising business expectations, address risk in legacy technologies and technology debt, and navigate the potential of AI.

Dennison, who is renowned for her vendor, distributor and partner management, joins Rapid Circle following a three-year stint Avanade, prior to which she held senior roles for over a decade at both Microsoft and NTT. In her new role, Dennison will lead Rapid Circle’s critical relationship with Microsoft and preferred distribution partner Dicker Data.

Cassandra Ashworth, CEO for A/NZ at Rapid Circle, said, “Rapid Circle has climbed to new heights by investing in seasoned experts who allow us to be large enough to deliver but small enough to care.

“Our growth is the culmination of on-shore talent, deep expertise in Microsoft products and services, and strategic acquisitions. These factors have combined to enable us to help CIOs and decision-makers overcome major business and governance challenges amid challenging macro- and micro-economic conditions, and simultaneously drive new innovation – including cloud, AI and security projects – to deliver better, risk-free outcomes to their stakeholders.”

Williams and Dennison’s appointments expand a leadership team that includes Rodney Hobbs (Chief Technology Officer), Daniel Baird (Head of Delivery), Tania Mushtaq (Head of Marketing) and Tania Trajkovski (Head of People and Culture).

As an award-winning Microsoft partner, Rapid Circle employs 11 Microsoft MVPs, and co-designed the Power Platform ‘Kickstarter Program’ with Microsoft, reflecting its proven and trusted expertise in not only the Microsoft environment, but across intelligent workplace, data and AI, governance and security, cloud transformation, and application modernisation.