Australian Start-up Digital Renewal Appoints Paul O’Rourke as Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Sydney – February 9, 2021 – Australian cloud services start-up, Digital Renewal (DigiRen) has welcomed former Amazon Web Services (AWS) director of APAC professional services Paul O’Rourke as their chief executive officer (CEO) to bolster the founding team.  

O’Rourke has over 25 years of IT leadership experience across APAC in cloud transformation and consulting practices. His most recent tenure of seven years inside AWS saw him move from leading the professional services business in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) to director of the APAC professional services team. Prior to AWS, O’Rourke worked for Accenture in their technology consulting business. 

“Commercial enterprise and public sector customers today are seeing increasing pressure to leverage cloud; whether that be to accelerate time to market for their products and services, improve their customer experience, increase their business agility or to reduce the cost and risk of legacy IT infrastructure. DigiRen supports complex organisations to realise the value of the public cloud by implementing cloud operating models that drive sustainable change and business value.” O’Rourke said. 

From AWS origins, DigiRen was founded in 2019 to meet the growing demand for cloud operating models from commercial enterprise and public sector organisations. With a focus on their customers people and leadership, DigiRen takes a new consultative approach, working jointly with customers and their delivery partners to drive improvements to the user experience of using cloud, and making cloud the best place to get work done.  

Welcoming the appointment, George Watts, chief technology officer (CTO) and founder of DigiRen, said "It is incredibly exciting to have Paul join the team to build and grow a new cloud consulting business.  He brings tremendous cloud leadership experience that only a few in Australia have. Coronavirus has accelerated cloud roadmaps for some companies; and more than ever, the availability of data, applications and reliable e-commerce platforms has fuelled the demand for cloud to become the best place to get this critical work done and completed fast."  

Since the creation of DigiRen in 2019 the current team of 11 will grow rapidly to meet customer demand. At its inception, DigiRen gained AWS Select Consulting Partner status and has a strong partnership with Australia’s leading cloud provider.  

“We’ve built an exceptional team of some of the most talented people in the market and are partnering with leading cloud providers such as AWS and this is just the beginning." O’Rourke says. 

The DigiRen team has led cloud transformations on behalf of some of the largest Australian and global organisations including AWS, KPMG and IBM.  The Founding team at DigiRen has talent recruited from the ASX, PWC and AWS, with several of the leadership team founding, directing, and providing strategic advisory services to a diverse range of other companies and start-ups.  

About DigiRen 

DigiRen understands that organisation change is one of the toughest challenges that large enterprises face. To deliver the full potential of organisational change the focus must first be on people, leadership and changing the way people work together. That is the DigiRen difference - we help our customers enable and transform their people and the way they work, to realise the full potential of cloud, making it the best place to get work done. Whether that be new cloud projects and migrations or reinvigorating stalled projects; DigiRen provides customers with a high quality, low-friction experience as they modernise their technology landscape and operating models.  www.digiren.com.au