Leigh Gibson

Leigh is a technology executive who has delivered multiple global and Australian innovation ‘firsts’. She has extensive experience delivering complex and high profile tech outcomes at scale while also building and maintaining happy and motivated teams. Experienced in delivering seemingly impossible outcomes where others have failed. Leigh loves to learn, absorbs information quickly and enjoys using her creativity to challenge herself and her teams to continuously modernize technology as they build.

Starting out as an engineer, Leigh quickly worked out that architects had more influence on what was built. While working as a architect, she saw that Project Managers could have influence over architecture, and this drove her career in the direction of leading teams to deliver tech solutions. Career highlights include delivering 5 world first 850UMTS wireless devices for Telstra in 5 months while the network was being built in 2006 (typical device development time is still 18 months today!), working for the Organising Committee for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games and collaborating with MI5 to protect systems that had international profile and were a significant target for terrorists. She joined ANZ Bank in 2014 and delivered Australia’s first mobile payments platform within her first year. She later successfully migrated ANZ’s legacy Internet Banking platform from the oldest version used globally, to the newest and on private cloud within 18 months. Joined Telstra in 2022 and has significantly transformed employee device connectivity from a security perspective while also leading the work to introduce Microsoft Copilot. Currently leading tech work needed to support Telstra’s new Data and AI joint venture with Accenture. Co-founder of Technology Executive Women which started in 2023.

Awards

• CIO50 Australia 2020
• Red Hat APAC Innovation Award Winner 2020 - Categories: (1) Digital Innovation, (2) Cloud Native Development