IXUP advises that Alastair Watson has been appointed Chief Executive Officer, effective 1st June 2024.
Alastair has more than 20 years of experience working in and scaling SaaS based businesses across a range of business life cycles, from start up to established/mature operations. Alastair has also been integral in overseeing significant revenue and profit growth at several of his prior appointments.
Alastair holds a Master of Laws from the University of California Berkeley, a Bachelor of Laws (Honors) from Macquarie University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New England. He has been appointed to the role of CEO of IXUP after an extensive search.
IXUP Board Chair, Julian Babarczy, commented;
“The Board is delighted to announce Alastair’s appointment as CEO of IXUP, which comes at a time of significant growth for our Company. Alastair has the ideal leadership qualities and experience that are suited to the next important phase of growth at IXUP and we look forward to his valuable contribution in leading our team as we look to commercialize our world leading technology on multiple fronts”.
Alastair commented;
“IXUP has created an incredible product that delivers competitive advantage to organisations across both existing and emerging high growth verticals. I am incredibly excited to be given the opportunity to join and lead a business that is so well positioned to take best advantage of some of the biggest trends in technology today.”
Prior to joining IXUP, Alastair held the role of CEO – Software (Oceania) at Global Payments, where he led a payments focused software business across Oceania for a US-based Fortune 500 technology company, responsible for strategic leadership and with full P&L responsibility across the region. While in this role, Alastair drove both organic and inorganic growth across a portfolio of software companies which saw significant and consistent revenue and margin growth. Prior to this role, Alastair held senior roles at fintech business Inloop, was Head of Corporate Development at Tyro Payments and worked in senior strategy roles both domestically and internationally with Telstra.
The key terms of Mr Watson’s appointment are summarised in Attachment A, with an Appendix 3B relating to the Long Term Incentive Plan released separately.