Technology is not a black-box
We work with the C-suite and their Boards, private equity firms, investment committees, due diligence teams, and investors to look under the hood of technology, draw data insights and correlations, assess risk and propose remediation.
Our Foundation
Your tech
We help you understand what works and what doesn’t, where you can save money and where you can stimulate growth, through your technology platforms and data.
Our Focus
Long-Term Value
We work with your future in mind, delivering solutions that will serve your business into the future and beyond. We use bleeding edge technologies in cloud infrastructure, data analytics and data engineering to give your business the tools it needs to flourish.
OUr Goals
Unbiased & Confidential
We take pride in our deep knowledge of all aspects of technology and our independence from vendors and resellers. Our work is completely confidential and we never share any of the findings outside the audience specified by our clients.
Pragmatic Solutions
No lingo consultancy
Your future is our prerogative. Whether you’re conducting due diligence for a M&A deal, developing a new digital product or restructuring your internal digital strategy, TechDD makes it simple and cuts to the core of the issues.
Our Team
Dr Anna Cicognani
Principal Adviser
Anna is the principal and founder of TechDD and her experiences as a C-suite executive for companies like Fairfax Digital, PMP, APN Online, OzEmail, and a number of start-ups have conditioned her into a sharp strategic operator. Anna holds a PhD from the University of Sydney, is a Honorary Professor at the University of Wollongong, and an adviser to ANU College of Engineering and CS. She is also an avid sportsperson and on the Board of Basketball Australia.
Rajat Kulshsrestha
Associate - Engineering
Rajat’s experience spans from a senior technology, product and research leader at Microsoft to being early senior executive of 3 startups helping raise $100M in funding and building products that scale to 20M mobile users. He has managed P&L across multiple international markets and building large diverse product and engineering teams. Most recently at booodl, he led the team that a built search engine and discovery product platform for retail. Rajat is an aerospace engineer and his currently pursuing his PhD in Bioengineering.
Celso Milne
Associate - Data Science and Computing
Celso is a data scientist and software engineer with a background in computer vision and computational modelling. His expertise as an engineer has seen him work at TAL and Cochlear as a data scientist and received the Dean’s list award for academic excellence four years in a row. Celso is a current student at the University of Sydney, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering and computer science.
Oliver Dolk
Associate - Data Science and Cloud Infrastructure
Oliver is one of Australia’s finest young software engineers. He has worked for Microsoft in Seattle developing cloud software on Microsoft Azure, and as a data engineer at TAL, Ricoh and Alinta Energy. He is a current honours student at the University of New South Wales where he studies software engineering.
Prof Hugh Bradlow
Associate - Computing
Hugh, previously CTO and Chief Scientist at Telstra, is President of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, an independent NED of Silicon Quantum Computing Pty Ltd, joint 2009 Australian Telecom Ambassador of the Year, one of the most 100 most influential telco executives in the world (Global Telecom) and one of the 12 most influential people in Australian ICT (Smart Company). Hugh is a graduate in electrical engineering from the University of Cape Town and received the D.Phil. degree in experimental nuclear physics from Oxford.
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