Clear Dynamics steps up sales and partner play with Neil McMurchy hire

Australian artificial intelligence (AI) scale-up Clear Dynamics has hired Neil McMurchy to its board of directors. 

His first priority will be advising on the company’s sales and partner program overhauls.

McMurchy spent more than two decades at global analyst firm Gartner and was most recently its research vice president for growth strategies. 

He joins former NTT CEO Steve Nola, former Deloitte global chief strategy officer John Meacock, Colinton Capital Partners founder Simon Moore and OIF Ventures partner Jerry Stesel, on the Clear Dynamics board.   

Clear Dynamics CEO Dimitri Lanssens said McMurchy’s appointment was a coup as it looks to scale the business 10 years after it was founded in Bendigo, Victoria.

“Neil is an expert at scaling emerging technology firms and understands the nuances in the various go to market strategies,” Lanssens said.

“Having someone of Neil’s stature join our board, knowing he could have joined just about any board, really validates our approach. Neil shares our dedication to breathing new life into old systems and unshackling organisations from the complexity that has been holding them back.”

Lanssens said McMurchy’s initial priority would be advising the company on building out a partner program that would serve as the “engine room” of its scale-up strategy.

“Our future is partner led,” Lanssens said. “We’ve spent the past decade perfecting the technology, securing some of Australia’s best-known brands, but it will only be with a strong partner ecosystem that we reach the next phase of our journey.

McMurchy said he was drawn to the company as its technology helps solve a “black hole” in enterprise IT – modernising business-critical legacy applications. 

“After three decades in the IT industry I thought I’d seen it all, that was until I saw Clear Dynamics,” McMurchy said. 

“The problem they help solve is one that plagues almost every major enterprise and public sector agency, one that until now has never had a simple solution – transforming the truly business critical applications that organisations live or die on.”