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Executive Search · Technology, Consulting & Senior Appointments · Australia

Executive search for leadership that shapes enterprise value.

Immergex is a retained executive search practice built for CIOs, CTOs, GM, VP and Head of Sales-level appointments, and senior consulting leadership across Australia — led by a search partner who has sat on both sides of the hiring table, including inside global consulting at DXC.

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15 Years
In technology and consulting recruitment — both building internal talent functions and running search from the agency side.
C-Suite Network
A working network across technology, consulting and senior commercial leadership throughout Australia.
Retained Model
Exclusive, staged engagements — built for confidential, senior-level searches.
Iain MacHattie
Executive Search Partner, Immergex
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About

A search partner who has stood on both sides of the hiring table.

Iain has spent 15 years in technology and consulting recruitment — building and running internal talent functions, leading search from the agency side, and working inside global consulting himself at DXC. That mix of vantage points shapes how Immergex operates: search that understands what a leader actually needs to succeed once they start, not just what a brief says.

Over that time, Iain has built a genuine network across the C-suite of technology in Australia, along with the GM, VP and Head of Sales-level leaders who sit around them and the senior consulting partners who advise them — giving clients access to leaders who aren't actively looking, and giving candidates a search process run with discretion and respect.

Iain's approach is deliberately consultative. He understands how pivotal a single appointment can be to a business's broader strategy — the right hire, or the wrong one, can materially shift where a company ends up — and he treats every search with that weight in mind. That network, and the platform Immergex is built on, runs on trust and integrity first: it's the reason senior leaders across the market engage with him directly, and it's what Iain prides himself on above all else.

The experience working with Iain and Immerge is best described as the ‘executive-experience’ for an executive role. It was professional, clear, and respected everyone’s time on the journey to a great outcome.
— Nadav, Fintech CTO
How We Understand These Roles

A brief is only the starting point — the role itself is more complex than that.

Senior technology, consulting and commercial appointments carry a level of structural complexity that doesn't show up in a job description. Understanding that complexity — not just sourcing against a title — is what a genuine network and direct operating experience are for.

A network built inside the room
Relationships across the C-suite, GM, VP and consulting partner level built over 15 years of actually working alongside these leaders — not cold outreach against a database.
Role and reporting-line breakdown
How the role actually sits in the business — reporting lines, decision rights, and how its scope shifts with the company's market cap and organisational structure.
Remuneration structure
Reading base, bonus, equity and LTI structures against market cap and sector — and the complexities that come with negotiating each of those elements at senior level.
Our Approach

A bespoke network, run as a disciplined process.

Immergex is built on relationships and referral — a network earned over 15 years across technology, consulting and senior commercial leadership, not a database cold-called on demand. Every mandate runs through the same disciplined process, regardless of seniority or sector.

01
Deep-Dive Discovery
Before any outreach, we sit with the hiring leader to understand what the role actually needs to deliver, and how it complements the team already in place.
02
Confidential Search
We go to market discreetly through our own network, building an extensive shortlist of leaders who fit — whether or not they were already looking.
03
Shortlist & Interviews
We run the shortlist through you directly, then guide and manage the interview process end to end, keeping momentum on both sides.
04
Offer Management
Once you've found the right fit, we manage the offer and negotiation closely, to bring the search to a close as quickly as possible.
The Questions We Start With
Enterprise Value
What are the two or three decisions you could make in this role that would have the greatest impact on enterprise value over the next five years?
Capital Allocation
If additional capital became available tomorrow, where would you deploy it — and what would you stop funding to make that decision credible?
Strategic Judgement
What assumption underpinning the current strategy would create the greatest destruction of value if it proved wrong?
Markets & Shareholders
If the business consistently traded at a discount to its peers, how would you determine whether the market was wrong — or management was?
Transformation & Technology
Where do you believe technology and AI can create genuine competitive advantage — and where is the market currently overestimating its value?
Coverage

Technology, consulting and senior commercial leadership.

Technology Leadership
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Chief Information Security Officer
Chief Data / Digital Officer
VP / Head of Engineering
Senior & Consulting Appointments
General Manager (GM)
Vice President (VP)
Head of Sales
Consulting Partner / Practice Lead
Non-Executive Director
CEO Forum

A room for senior leaders to think out loud with peers who get it.

Alongside search, Iain runs closed-door roundtables for CEOs, CFOs and CIOs — each session built around a different agenda and guest speaker, giving peers a platform to compare notes on the problems that rarely make it into a board pack: talent strategy, team structure, vendor pressure and the pace of change.

It's where Immergex's search work and its network reinforce each other: the relationships built in the room are often the same ones that produce a shortlist someone else can't reach.

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Contact

If you're building or replacing senior technology, consulting or commercial leadership, let's talk — in confidence.

Phone — 0466 278 777
Email — [iain@immergex.com.au] — domain pending purchase
Office — Level 4, 388 George St, Sydney NSW 2000