DTA loses more digital leaders and gains one

The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has reportedly lost two of its most senior digital executives and appointed a new chief digital officer.

The agency's digital marketplace chief Catherine Thompson has resigned suddenly just a year into her two-year contract, InnovationAus reported. The resignation leaves the fate of the agency's Digital Marketplace program in the air, the report states.

Meanwhile the agency's head of service design and user research, Leisa Reichelt, will leave the agency to become user research chief at software company Atlassian, the same report claims.

Reichelt was a key member of the DTA's UK equivalent of the Government Digital Service before returning to Australia to join the DTA.

Thompson and Reichelt were the last of the senior team from the DTA's predecessor the Digital Transformation Office, as assembled by the former agency's CEO Paul Shetler.

A separate report in IT News states that the DTA has appointed current COO Peter Alexander to the role of chief digital officer. The position has been left unfilled since Shetler, who had been relegated to CDO after the agency's rebranding to the DTA, left the role in November last year.

According to the report, the agency also plans to appoint a CTO within the agency's delivery area as part of a wider internal reorganisation led by current DTA chief Gavin Slater.

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