Capgemini has appointed Melissa Osborne as vice president of Defence & Defence Industry in Australia, the Canberra-based executive shared in a LinkedIn post on Saturday. Osborne joins the company from GuardWave, where she recently served as a nonexecutive director. GuardWave Australia offers an information risk management suite that helps clients facilitate how they secure, track and organize their data assets....
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