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SAS Names New Head of Canberra Operations

Announcement posted by SAS 14 May 2018

Appointment Positions Helen Barnsley as Company’s Federal Government Industry Leader

Media release – 14 May, 2018

SAS has appointed Helen Barnsley to head the company’s Canberra sales operations as its Federal Government industry leader. She assumes responsibility for driving continuing growth at all levels of the Federal and ACT Territory governments.

Canberra has long been one of SAS’ most successful markets for its advanced predictive analytics and related solutions, and government agencies are amongst the company’s longest held Australian customers.

Helen Barnsley has a 20-year record of success in selling to government, most recently with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and earlier with Cisco and Microsoft.

Announcing the appointment, Tony Timney – National Sales Director for SAS Australia – said, “Helen brings to SAS both her proven sales leadership skills and a deep understanding of Canberra’s highly innovative IT environment. I am very pleased to welcome her to the team.” News ends

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For further information:

Amar Vohra – Director, Corporate Communications, SAS Asia Pacific

Tel – 0417 686 135

Email – amar.vohra@sas.com

 

For an image of Helen Barnsley:

Derek Evans of Blackie McDonald

Tel – 0410 601 673

Email – derek.evans@bmcd.com.au