John Cassidy

Founder, Investor and Technologist

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

About

John is the APAC Chairperson for Tquila International Ventures, an investment management firm, investing in Consulting and Technology start-ups. In the past twenty five years John has operated in over 30 countries. He is a regular speaker in the press contributing articles in journals such as SMH, Sky Business News, Financial Review, BRW, ARN, Financial Times, Mobile Europe and Total Telecom. Prior to a career in Technology, John was an academic, specializing in product innovation and the author of numerous research papers on the subject. .

Experience

  • Chairperson at AgileJourneys
    Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

    AgileJourneys is built for AI from the ground up organization specialising in providing skilled engineers and developers empowered by AI to solve the most complex problems in government and corporate Australia.

  • Founder at Brumby Systems
    Feb 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

    BrumbySystems is a Pega Ventures supported boutique specialising in the implementation of complex Pega deployments using modern methods and tooling.

  • Co-Founder at MyCloudLive
    Jul 2021 - Present · 5 yrs

    Co-founder of a Salesforce Industries boutique focused on delivering beautiful and elegant solutions for helping telco, public sector and financial services organisations make the most of their SFI investments.

  • Chairperson APAC at Tquila
    Nov 2020 - Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Tquila Ventures is an investment management firm, investing in Consulting and Technology start-ups. We co-invest and build stand alone or integrated technology consulting practices utilising our years of knowledge and relationships within the global IT professional services industry. Once pre-agreed milestones have been achieved, full control can be transferred to the partner resulting in a method that brings a higher ROI than acquisition and greater speed to market than organic growth. Projects include: * Brumby Systems- Founder of a Pega Ventures backed Pega Software boutique * TquilaANZ- Sold to Publics Sapient in December 2022

  • Accenture (17 yrs 3 mos)
    • Head of Platforms
      Nov 2019 - Nov 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

      John runs the Platform business for Accenture in Australia and New Zealand. He has accountability for growing the business around major platform partners and building Accenture's capability to support this growth

    • Salesforce Global Service Cloud and ANZ Business Group Lead
      Jul 2016 - Nov 2020 · 4 yrs 5 mos

      John runs Accenture's Global work in Service Transformation using the Salesforce platform, as well as running the Salesforce Business Group in ANZ. This involves working with clients and these innovative software providers to drive transformational change that delivers real business value from Salesforce.

    • Managing Director- Accenture Strategy
      Jul 2014 - Jul 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Accenture's Stragtegy Group is responsible for working with clients in identifying and implementing change to help them become or remain high performing businesses at the intersection of technology and business. Focused on deliverable outcomes, Accenture Strategy interacts as appropriate with the other dimensions of the firm to bring a combination of functional, industry and technical skills to bear for the benefit of our clients. John runs the Digital Strategy work that Accenture Strategy delivers in ANZ.