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Nathan Kroenert

Technology Executive & Strategic Leader

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A passionate, energetic, and results-oriented technology executive with 25+ years of experience. Recognised for building and scaling high-performing teams, navigating complex regulatory environments, offering dual fluency in both leadership and technical arenas and for driving strategic technology transformation at scale across multiple businesses, most recently in the FSI space.
$130M+ Budget Managed
150+ Organization Size, spanning 3 countries and 10 teams
25+ years FSI, Telco, Vendor, Channel
Build/Operate/Professional Services

Core Competencies

Technology Strategy, Vision and Team Inspiration
Large-Scale Infrastructure Leadership
P&L Management ($130M+ Budget)
Enterprise Risk & Regulatory Governance
Organisational Design & Talent Development
Cloud, Container & AI Adoption
Delivery Optimisation, Roadblock Clearing
Customer and Team Relationships

Executive Experience

I have a history of growing both my own, and my organisation's capability over time as the business develops. My track record speaks for itself, showing continual growth in my time at Frontline, NTT and ANZ Bank, consistently taking on larger roles with greater impact. As a technically capable leader, I understand the support my teams require to accelerate delivery, automate and bring operational excellence to the platforms, applications and businesses they support.

Head of Infrastructure - Unix, Storage, iSeries & Database

Sept 2023 - Oct 2025

Internal Title: Product Area Lead - Unix, Storage, iSeries & Database

ANZ Bank
  • Led a 150+ person multi-national organisation delivering core infrastructure platforms critical to ANZ's banking operations.
  • Directed $130M+ annual budget with full accountability for structural strategy, service health, and governance.
  • Achieved zero P1 customer-impacting incidents attributable to the team across the tenure.
  • Reduced pre-operational footprint by 35% through strategic governance and goal setting.
  • Appointed 'Copilot Champion' - driving AI skill growth and adoption across the enterprise.
  • Drove the deployment of platform services in New Datacentres to migrate the 10,000 managed OS instances, the storage and databases my team supported
  • Drove the technical architecture and organisational adoption of Exadata to provide a long term, first class platform for critical Oracle workloads
  • Led platform security and governance for Unix, iSeries, Storage and Database

Head of Infrastructure - Unix & iSeries

Feb 2021 - Sept 2023

Internal Title: Product Area Lead - Unix & iSeries

ANZ Bank
  • Managed $50M+ annual budget and a team of 75+ engineers and leads.
  • Drove over 50% reduction in incidents through automation, monitoring improvements and rigorous review.
  • Rebuilt the leadership team across Unix and iSeries, establishing a culture of technical excellence.
  • Achieved zero P1 customer-impacting incidents caused by team actions across a two-year tenure.
  • Delivered major uplift in monitoring and management stack, introducing Configuration as Code via Puppet and GitHub.
  • Led integration of security and compliance tooling: CyberArk, MDE, Illumio, and Centrify.
  • Managed governance for 20+ internal applications covering backup, recovery, and automation.

CPaaS Product Owner - Kubernetes & SRE

Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
ANZ Bank
  • Product Owner for the platform underpinning ANZ Internet Banking, ANZ App, and ANZ Plus
  • Managed $5M+ budget and negotiated 30% reduction in core software licensing costs
  • Rearchitected the core offering to run on bare metal, delivering a further 20% saving on hardware and licensing costs
  • Championed Config as Code and continuous delivery via ArgoCD for platform reliability
  • Lifted team capability across multiple countries from Kube focussed skills to overall platform excellence

Senior Unix Consultant and Scrum Master

Feb 2016 - Feb 2019
ANZ Bank
  • 3 years re-sharpening technical skills as part of the Enterprise Unix team, managing a fleet of 10,000+ hosts
  • Executed technical role delivering key software platforms to support Murex, ControlM and others
  • Participated in and presented to CAB, planning and executing changes on ANZ's most critical assets
  • Late in the role, filled the Scrum Master function as part of ANZ's move to Agile, and worked closely with the PO to scope, breakdown, plan and manage work delivery
  • Worked closely with Red Hat, HP, Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, EMC, Cisco and more in deeply technical escalations
  • Co-managed the SPARC Utility footprint and delivered multiple new projects of capability in the automation, scheduling, markets and availability space

Oracle Practice Director

Nov 2013 - Nov 2015
Frontline / NTT ICT
  • Owned the executive relationship with Oracle, aligning sales and solution architecture teams.
  • Created SPARC cloud services and developed and recovered critical customer relationships.
  • Presented at conferences on behalf of both Oracle as a customer, and NTT as a service provider
  • Owned the HDS executive relationship for both hardware a services delivery
  • Scoped services to deliver across multiple vendor products including HDS, Oracle and Sun

Services Manager (multiple roles)

Nov 2010 - Nov 2013
Frontline / NTT ICT
  • Direct managed a team of 17 engineers, before restructuring to 3 team leads with a total of 24 engineers plus contract engineers
  • Managed hiring and the full ongoing lifecycle of line management functions
  • Worked closely with the PMO to dramatically improve PMO / Delivery function, capability and relationships
  • Owned the Professional services delivery teams across Australia (Vic, NSW, ACT, SA)
  • Responsible for validating job scope, directing presales and developing services
  • Managed the many certifications required to maintain partner status with HP, Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, HDS and more
  • Delivered an ongoing profitable capability to the business in a challenging environment
Full Work History
Period Organisation Position
Sept 2023 - Oct 2025ANZ BankProduct Area Lead - Unix, Storage, iSeries & Database
Feb 2021 - Sept 2023ANZ BankProduct Area Lead - Unix & iSeries
Feb 2019 - Feb 2021ANZ BankCPaaS Product Owner - Kubernetes, Containers, DevOps & SRE
Feb 2016 - Feb 2019ANZ BankSenior Unix Consultant / Unix Engineer / Scrum Master
Nov 2013 - Nov 2015Frontline / NTT ICTOracle Practice Director
Apr 2011 - Nov 2013Frontline / NTT ICTNational Service Delivery Manager & Systems/Storage SBU Manager
Apr 2009 - Apr 2011Frontline SystemsPresales Consultant & Vic Services Delivery Manager
Mar 2008 - Apr 2009Sun MicrosystemsSenior Systems Engineer - Solaris & SPARC Architecture
Nov 2003 - Mar 2008Sun MicrosystemsPTS Server ESG Senior Engineer - L3/L4 Support
Mar 2001 - Nov 2003Sun MicrosystemsEducation Services Instructor & Infrastructure Co-ordinator
Sept 1997 - Jan 2001ANZ BankSenior Unix Consultant / Team Leader - HP-UX & Solaris
Mar 1995 - Dec 1999Siggah InternetManaging Director & Technical Leader (Side business)
Mar 1992 - Sept 1997Earlier RolesSystems/Network Administration & PC Technical Management
Education & Training History
Period Education / Training
2026AI self-training focused on Claude, Gemini and self-hosted models, along with OpenClaw configuration and management to better understand agentic workflows and agentic capabilities. This included building out secure networks, and all systems configuration required to self-host both the agent and the models. Built games in Roblox using Claude and Android using Gemini and Android Studio
2025Multiple ANZ Internal leadership courses
2020 - 2024Agile Product Management (Pretty Agile); Scrum Master training; ongoing Linux, OpenShift and container-based lab work.
2016 - 2020Puppet Fundamentals; Splunk Fundamentals; hands-on exploration of multiple container platforms (e.g., Rancher).
2010 - 2016Team & Business Management focus. Maintained SPARC/Solaris currency; experience with various OS, Hypervisors, storage arrays and embedded Linux.
2011Management and Leadership training
2002 - 2010Solaris & Systems courses (F15K, F6800); HDS 9900 series hardware administration; Sun Global Resolution (SGR) training.
2001 - 2002Grad Dip in Computing Studies - Completed 4 of 8 units.
2000Sun E10000 specific training; Sun Solaris Admin I and II (self-administered); ANZ internal Train the Trainer.
1999Open VMS Systems and Network Management I, II and III; ANZ internal technical change training.
1997HP Systems Administration course.
1992Monash Gippsland - Bachelor of Applied Science (Computer Programming) - First year completed.
1991Ringwood Secondary College - Successful completion of VCE.