
Chris is a senior IT executive with 30 years’ experience in the IT industry and 25 years’ direct experience in Australian Federal Government and Public Sector. He has held senior leadership positions with established managed service providers: HCL, Computer Sciences Corporation (now DXC), Unisys, Volante and Datacom. In these roles, he led large managed services businesses, involving senior internal and external stakeholder engagement in building and managing all aspects of the client relationship, service delivery, operations, contract and commercial management.
He has also held Senior Account Director; Client Executive and Business Development roles with Computer Associates, Oracle, CSC and Avanade and currently HCL. His industry experience encompasses Government/Public Sector, Corporate, Telecommunications and Utilities.
He completed Post Graduate Professional Practice Management studies at Charles Sturt University in 2011 and in 2018 he completed an “on campus” Client Executive Business Program at the UCLA School of Executive Management, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Christopher J Cohen, Associate Vice President, Federal Sector, Australia and New Zealand