Tomas Varsavsky is an
independent consultant based in Melbourne, Australia. He is a trusted advisor to business and technology executives of companies with
digital ambitions. He's worked as a
product, technology and data executive in some of the most advanced technology organisations in Australia. His no fuss approach helps his customers leverage technology to accelerate
commercial outcomes.
Services
Strategic technology services for directors and executives.
Technology Review
Is technology holding you back from achieving your business goals? Tom can review your technology and data environment and diagnose key problems.
Op Model & Org Design
Is your technology team not nailing it? Tom can assess your current capability and operating model and re-design your organisation to align everyone to customer and business goals.
Tech Strategy & Roadmap
Not sure how to make progress? Tom can help you assess your options, determine the right strategy and design a strategic roadmap that makes real progress.
Cost Review
Is your technology costing too much? Tom can review your spend and benchmark it against peer companies to identify opportunities for optimisation.
Transformation
Are you on a technology, product or data transformation journey? Tom can define the transformation agenda, implement change and steer your progress towards impact.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Are you acquiring another company? Tom can do technology due diligence to surface key issues and prepare an integration plan.
Interim / Fractional Exec
Do you have an urgent technology leadership gap in your leadership team? Tom can step in on an interim or fractional basis to help you get through it.
Leadership Coaching
Are you a CEO or CTO that needs to level up your technology leadership skills? Tom can accelerate your progress with a tailored coaching and advisory program.
Technology Governance
Are you the chair of a board in need of better technology governance? Tom can advise your board, become a member of a relevant subcommittee or join your board as a director.
About Tom
Technology Executive, Advisor, Management Consultant
Tom is a technology executive with 25 years experience in building product, technology and data businesses. He is an expert in web scale systems, cloud architectures, progressive software engineering practices, data and artificial intelligence. He has a passion for building high performing engineering teams that employ the best technology and practices to achieve business results. He’s led organisational transformation programs to embed product-centric and agile ways of working. In 2018 and again in 2019 he was recognised as one of the top 50 CIOs in Australia.
Most recently he was the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Catch, a Wesfarmers owned eCommerce marketplace, where he was responsible for all aspects of product and technology including the website and apps, operational systems, fulfilment technology, data, artificial intelligence, platform engineering, corporate technology and security. He led a team of 200+ people locally and offshore through a critical scale-up phase for Catch.
Prior to that, he was the Chief Technology and Data Officer at REA Group, an ASX listed property marketing company. He led the technology and data strategy and was responsible for providing the technology and data platforms underpinning REA's products, services and operations. He was also responsible for data commercialisation. He led a team of 650 technologists.
Tom has worked and consulted for many other notable businesses such as ThoughtWorks, LonelyPlanet, IOOF, ANZ, National Australia Bank, Cbus Super, Sensis & Ericsson.
He is based in Melbourne, Australia and can service local clients as well as clients all over the world remotely.
Skills and Experience
Technology Native
- Software development
- Product development
- Distributed highly available architectures
- Cloud computing
- Open source
- Data platforms
- Artificial Intelligence
- Agile and DevOps
- Legacy systems migration
Diverse Industries
- Marketplaces
- Retail & eCommerce
- Real Estate & PropTech
- Financial services
- Media
- Advertising & AdTech
- Supply chain
- Data
- Telecommunications
Proven Leader
- Executive leadership
- Product, data and technology strategy
- Org design & culture building
- Agile transformation
- Scale-up and hyper growth
- Offshoring
- Governance, risk & compliance
- Security
- Mergers and acquisitions
Commercial Model
Flexible commercial models tailored to your needs.
Daily Rate
An agreed daily rate and number of days per week where Tom is fully dedicated to your company. Best suited to ongoing operational roles.
Fixed Price
Fixed price for a project with well defined scope, deliverables and timelines. Best for short and finite pieces of work.
Retainer
A very cost effective way to tap into Tom's expertise by agreeing on a fixed number of hours to draw down on. Best for ongoing advisory work which is regular but low number of total hours.
Equity
Tom gets on your cap table at an agreed low percentage stake. Best for early stage companies where payment of fees is not an option.
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