Troy Bebee and Brooke Cushing join Kablamo to lead our Google Cloud practice

Two appointments today, both connected to our growing partnership with Google Cloud Platform.

Troy Bebee joins as Kablamo's first Head of Google Cloud. He arrives from NTT DATA Asia Pacific, where he led the Google capability. Before that, his career sits at the intersection of two careful decisions. The first was made in 2018, when he bet that Google Cloud was about to mature into a serious enterprise platform and joined Kasna as CTO. He spent five years building Kasna into Australia's premier Google solutions partner, and continued that practice at Mantel Group as CTO Google Cloud. The second decision was a short detour into GenAI customer engineering at Redactive, which taught him that the most interesting questions in enterprise AI sit beneath the models, in the platforms they run on.

That is the centre of gravity Troy brings to this role. He has the engineering depth to architect at-scale GCP solutions, and the patience to talk a customer through the choices a roadmap requires. People who have worked with him over the years describe a rare ability to translate technical decisions into language a board can act on. That combination is the reason we created this role for him, and the reason we scoped it as a player-coach. He will architect, he will lead the practice, and he will manage the relationship with Google directly. We are not separating those things.

Troy's particular focus is the cloud foundation underneath AI and agentic systems. Most of the interesting client questions we field this year sit in that area, and his depth with Gemini Enterprise, Vertex AI, and the wider Google data and AI suite is exactly the experience the market is asking us for. He is also a builder by instinct. A story we like: he ran a home machine-learning project on a Raspberry Pi to stop his cats jumping onto the kitchen counter, prototyped over a weekend. The instinct behind it, that the use case is the entire point and prototyping is non-negotiable, is the right one for the work in front of us.

Brooke Cushing joins as our GCP Partner Manager. She brings more than ten years of partnership and programs experience across the technology and digital agency sides of the industry. At Rackspace she built the ANZ digital partner ecosystem from scratch. A former colleague there describes her as one of the most connected people he knows in the segment. At Campaign Monitor she ran APAC Customer Success across two and a half years, including a period as APAC Head of Customer Experience. At Salesforce she sat inside ANZ Sales Programs and Productivity, where she ran strategic pipeline development across cross-functional teams: sales development, partners, marketing, product, solution engineering, and strategy.

That breadth is the point. Good partner management is operational discipline at its core. It means knowing where your pipeline gaps sit, having a plan to close them, and bringing the right people from the right teams into the same conversation at the right moment. Brooke does that for a living. She returned to work earlier this year after a deliberate career break to support her family, and we are glad she chose us.

We are already in the work. Kablamo's Google Cloud practice runs across two of Australia's largest media and publishing groups, the national public broadcaster, and a market-leading ASX-listed property technology business, with a joint sales pipeline that is filling out steadily. We are a confirmed sponsor of the GCP Sydney Summit in 2026. We are continuing to invest in the team in Australia and in Canada.

There is a pattern worth naming behind all this. Google Cloud is no longer the third entrant in the Australian enterprise market. The competitive frame has changed. Gemini, the agent infrastructure that surrounds it, and the data platform underneath it are the questions clients are putting to us this year. Our job, and the job we have hired Troy and Brooke to lead, is to give those clients answers that work in production once the deck is closed.

Troy is Sydney-based and spends a good amount of his week in Melbourne. He is there with me next week. Brooke is also Sydney-based. They are both already in the work. We are glad to have them on the team.