FEAR LESS, ACHIEVE MORE

At the helm of LAB³, David is an expert at making things happen. He took up the reins as LAB³ CEO in March 2022, to lead the continued emergence of the business as a global Product and Services company. 

David has deep experience in business creation and organising for performance, and is passionate to keep LAB³ at the forefront of technology. He has an impressive history of running major organisations including financial institutions and first joined LAB³ mid-2021 in a dedicated role to establish the New Zealand arm. He quickly led the business to make a significant impact in the enterprise market for cloud transformations.

With strategic insight, David has been instrumental in putting into action a fully leveraged business model across LAB³ which transcends geographic location and brings to life modern ways of operating. 

Fearless in approach, Chris is passionate to expand LAB³ into new markets on a global scale – to showcase LAB³‘s growing catalogue of unique game changing products.

Chris is a co-founder of LAB³ (together with Bob Cook and Andy Lyons) and as a natural born entrepreneur was the first CEO. He led the hyper-growth of LAB³ from start up in 2017 to becoming an established force in Australia and New Zealand. In March 2022, Chris stepped into the dedicated role as Chief Strategic Officer to lead the continued transformation of the business from being service-oriented to also become product focused.

The vision Chris and his co-founders originally set for LAB³ was to fear less and achieve more for clients through automation and cloud technology. This continues to drive the business today.

As a director with a corporate HR background, Tanya arrived at LAB³ at a critical time of company growth. She moved quickly to establish a governance framework to ensure best practices and to meet the increasing compliance requirements associated with hyper-growth and international expansion. 

Tanya ensures LAB³sters are empowered to fearlessly achieve as a team and in their careers. She was instrumental in setting core business values to guide our fearless approach. These continue to be embraced: Team Up, Think Ahead, Be True, and Stand Out.

Bob is one of the three founders of LAB³ and from the outset, brought with him expertise in building a solid business strategy and organisational framework.  

Bob’s extraordinary insight has continually positioned LAB³ ahead of the curve.

He possesses an extensive commercial, strategic and operational understanding of technology services. And he employs a collaborative, transformational leadership style to achieve successful organisational and stakeholder outcomes.  

Rich is an expert at turning the technology-enabled business ideas of clients into results. 

Passionate about applying technology to real-world problems, Rich achieves goals through using the full stack of Microsoft technologies combined with LAB³‘s proven ‘as code’ solutions.  

Rich has deep experience with enterprise architecture, methods engineering, IT operations, IT strategy, complex system delivery projects and professional service leadership.

Don has expertise in providing practical and cost-effective multi-cloud cyber advice and guidance to C-Suites and Boards including for Commercial and Government enterprises across the Australasian region.

He has more than 20 years’ experience within ICT security services ranging from consulting and penetration testing through to design, development, building and running secure environments leveraging multi-cloud and microservices.

Alex has been with LAB³ since the early beginnings, up for the challenge of helping grow the then start-up into a force.

Driven to achieve in all that he does, Alex has a deep acumen for business. At LAB³ he has led the explosive growth of sales and solution design.

In his approach, Alex works alongside industry leaders to nut out strategies to help them transform their businesses into client centric organisations that drive value.  

This is the philosophy that Bevan adheres to in spearheading the delivery of client engagements across LAB³ and to help position the business as a global product leader.   

Driven to achieve client success, Bevan leads an elite team of fearless problem solvers across all practice areas. Using a practice based and product led approach, Bevan maintains a strong focus on both innovation and client engagement. The goal is for clients to confidently invest in cloud adoption and modern cloud technology, with certainty of outcome and fast business value.

Reuben champions LAB³ engagements across federal government. He drives innovation to support organisations achieve their transformation goals, from legacy infrastructure to cloud services.

Located in Canberra, over his career Reuben has held leadership roles providing technology to government. He understands the pressures to provide better, smarter and simpler public services, within budget constraints and to meet high levels of accountability.

Anthony is a tenacious innovator who is driven to find new and better ways of doing things.

With a background in delivery, presales, and architecture, and across many industries, he understands both the common and unique needs and frustrations of organisations. 

Leading the security and network practices at LAB³, Anthony champions innovation. In developing game changing solutions, he looks outside the square to provide clients with improved value, total visibility, better speed and reliability, and the confidence to invest in transformation for improved business outcomes.

Alain champions data technologies at LAB³. He has overseen the growth of this innovative practice, including building a state-of-the-art electronics lab to enable the inhouse design, prototyping, testing and build of IoT sensor technology on Australian shores.    

Alain has extensive experience in the industrial space, having been involved with many significant projects in the mining and manufacturing sectors. He is an expert at linking operational technology to an IT world and leveraging AI to make incremental improvements in those processes.