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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 22 AUGUST 2021 14 COMMERCIAL Ipsyon Ltd appoints Gabriel Sultana as new Chief Technology Officer IPSYON Ltd, a subsidiary of Harvest Technology plc, has ap- pointed a new Chief Technolo- gy Officer, Mr Gabriel Sultana. With more than 23 years of experience in the IT Software world, Gabriel was exposed to and contributed to different business sectors ranging from Government Digital Identity and Online Payment Systems, to Performance Marketing and IOT. His professional growth journey shows consistent build up in covering roles such as Quality Assurance Engineer; Technical and Enterprise Archi- tect; Head of Architecture and Technologies and Chief Tech- nology Officer. Gabriel has earned a master's degree in Information Tech- nology and Management with specialization in Cloud Tech- nologies. His journey in edu- cation also exhibits growth and diversification. After finishing his studies in the Electronics Engineering field at Fellenberg Training Centre, he continued his stud- ies in Computing and Informa- tion Systems, with several pro- fessional certifications along the way. This covering special- ized Software Engineering and Data Science topics like Big Data and Statistics. "Privacy, Security and Reg- ulatory shifts have become increasingly frequent and disruptive to the extent that businesses nowadays are be- ing pushed to become nimbler and more innovative to remain relevant," said Gabriel Sultana. He continued to emphasize that "combining a continu- ous change mentality with the right technologies and modern engineering practices can help accelerate the process. Ultimately the focus should always be the end custom- er. Hence during the change journey, it is important that the aim remains to bring con- tinuous value in the products and services being offered… this means being closer to our customers, being aware of the competition and have full un- derstanding of the data being collected and its potential use. Internally this means a strong collaborative team that is ready to harness continuous learning and that is vested in the success of its customer. I would like to welcome Gabriel Sultana to Ip- syon Ltd. I am sure that he will provide great technical leader- ship as the Chief Technology Officer. His skills and experi- ence will be essential for taking forward the company's techno- logical roadmap," said Dr God- win Caruana, CEO and CTO Harvest technology plc. For more information, visit https://harvest.tech/ EY and Microsoft to drive a US$15b growth opportunity and technology innovation across industries EY and Microsoft this week an- nounced the expansion of their strategic relationship to further align EY business ingenuity with Microsoft's cloud technol- ogies to create long-term value for their respective clients with an incremental US$15b growth opportunity over the next five years. The increased collaboration will focus on launching new solutions and platforms that help organisations address business and societal chal- lenges at scale through digital transformation. The relationship concentrates on helping clients reinvent back office operations and in- novate in key regulated sectors like financial services, energy, health, government and man- ufacturing. In addition, the collaboration will create man- aged services that fuel client transformation, unlock value and develop a first-of-its-kind, enterprise-scale, trusted data fabric. EY teams will further extend the operation of the EY Micro- soft Services Group to provide clients with deeper access to more than 40,000 experienced EY technology consulting pro- fessionals to meet changing demands. Microsoft will work with EY teams to train more than 150,000 EY professionals on Microsoft technologies and is dedicating engineering talent to accelerate the development of key solutions over the next five years. Kevin Mallia, EY Malta Con- sulting Lead and Partner, said that over the last few years, the strong global relationship between EY and Microsoft had been leveraged locally to provide businesses with better quality services and to increase their digital capabilities. "We are excited to announce further expansion of collabo- ration and look forward to in- creased opportunities for our people, clients and society," he said. "The power of the EY and Mi- crosoft relationship is deepen- ing as we help people around the world, and support clients to do more with their data in areas previously underserved by technology, such as tax and finance," Andy Baldwin, EY Global Managing Partner for Client Service, said. "We are building on our col- laborative success in multiple domains to help businesses and governments save costs, mon- etize data, realize long-term value and create agility. With this significant expansion of our relationship, we will lever- age Azure, Power Platform and combined EY and Microsoft engineering capabilities to sup- port organizations and busi- nesses to modernize back office operations, leverage the cloud and accelerate transformations with new Microsoft-enabled solutions and platforms." Judson Althoff, Executive Vice President and Chief Com- mercial Officer at Microsoft, said that the announcement is the next step in the compa- ny's long-standing relationship with EY. EY teams will continue to fo- cus on reinventing back office operations with the technical provision of managed servic- es across various areas such as tax, supply chain, risk and compliance and other managed services. EY and Microsoft teams are helping clients orchestrate a cloud for business. As part of this approach, EY and Micro- soft are collaboratively devel- oping the EY Trusted Data Fabric – a first-of-its-kind en- terprise data offering that will automate the processing and adoption of data and provide access to data with advanced artificial intelligence (AI)-pow- ered data management capa- bilities across multiple EY plat- forms. Combining EY Trusted Data Fabric with Microsoft's Pow- er Platform allows both teams to add more capabilities to EY Azure-native managed servic- es platforms offering access to the most advanced technolo- gies and helping clients create products to quickly innovate.