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Bankwest staffer gets CIO promotion

Commonwealth Bank of Australia subsidiary Bankwest has promoted one of its own to replace its chief information officer Tony Clasquin, who resigned at the end of 2009.

According to his LinkedIn profile, the new CIO is Andy Weir, who was head of change management at the bank for four years from March 2006. He lists the CIO role as starting at January 2010. The news was first reported by ZDNet.com.au, who confirmed it with Bankwest directly.

Weir was also program director at former Bankwest parent HBOS for more than a decade from July 1995 until he took up the change management role. He holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom.

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