"The strengthening of our team represents a further investment in the ANZ market following the recent announcement of the establishment of a local data infrastructure, operated on AWS, to provide total visibility into organisation's data, and ongoing value," said Talend regional vice president of sales and ANZ general manager Mark Fazackerley.
"We're delighted to have the support of Melle and Julien 's senior experience in Talend's workforce. They will reinforce our commitment with Victorian and Canberra-based customers and support the development of a closer relationship with public sector organisations in both Federal and State Government organisations."
Melle Whiting brings more than two decades of IT industry experience to Talend.
She joins the company from Dassault Systemes, where she worked as an account director.
Whiting previously served as an account director at Oracle, a software client leader at IBM, and an account director at Perceptive Software.
Earlier in her career she held sales and business development management positions at Multitone Communications, Salmat, and Hospitality Marketing Concepts.
"Joining Talend is very exciting as we unveil our new vision of data health to enable organisations to regain confidence in their ability to deliver decision-ready data", said Whiting.
"I look forward to helping Victorian's customers and partners achieve their journey to a data health practice to establish confidence and total visibility into their data, and therefore a real quantification of value."
Julien Francia joins Talend as strategic account director with a focus on the Federal Government and other public sector customers.
He previously worked as account director at Oracle, business development manager at NEC Australia, strategic advisor at SugarCRM, and business director at Tibco.
He holds a bachelor's degree in business and IT from the University of Ballarat.
"My first priority is to articulate Talend's value proposition to Federal Government agencies, ensuring they understand how we can assist in their push to digital transformation to lay the foundations for Australia to be a leading digital economy and society by 2030," said Francia.
"Talend is already engaged in underpinning collaborative initiatives across data and information for federal agencies, and we believe we can assist agencies in improving experiences for all stakeholders, both within the agencies and for citizens."
