Accelera
Strategic Disruption Specialists
Accelera is a business-first digital transformation consultancy for mid-market companies. We help private and government organisations get ahead of change and lead disruption by improving their digital capability. Our founders carry 25 years of real-world experience creating and helping mid-market businesses leverage digital transformation. Our purpose is to enable businesses to not only cope with change, but to become innovative disruptors.
We put strategy before technology and results above all. Get ahead of change and start your journey with us today.
Anthony Woodward, Founder and CEO
For more than 20 years, Anthony has built, scaled and run mid-market companies in the Internet and cloud services space. By helping businesses to understand how to use technology to transform and develop strategic initiatives, he has converted new market opportunities into leading businesses as a CEO, executive director and entrepreneur.
Anthony’s career path has led him to be part of innovative companies that forged new ground for businesses wanting to use technology to serve their customers better. Some of the highlights include:
- Founding Zip World in 1995, creating a market-leading retail and wholesale Internet provider, which was sold to NASDAQ listed Pacific Internet (now Telstra) in 1999.
- Founding Bulletproof in 2000, which grew to be the leading end-to-end Cloud Services provider in A/NZ, and he took the company public through a listing on the ASX in 2014, leading to almost $50m annual revenues until its acquisition by AC3 in 2018.
- A mentor of a number of startup businesses, including as a contributor to the Macquarie University Incubator and UNSW Founders program.
Conversant in a wide range of leading-edge technology and business operating environments, Anthony understands how to identify business-level customer pain points and then turn transformative technologies into value-add business propositions that solve them with a unique blend of broad technical knowledge and business management experience.
Anthony’s passion is the power of technology in enabling businesses to serve their customers better. Accelera Group, which drives meaningful business outcomes from Digital Transformation for medium sized enterprises across Australia and New Zealand, is the latest chapter in this life-long mission.
Franck Demoiseau, Principal Consultant, Digital Transformation
Franck is transformational consultant with more than 15 years’ experience in C-Level roles, across many industries. He has sat on the boards of banks, startups, technology companies and NGOs.
Most recently, as the CEO of Offis, he led Offis to pivot from a standard hosting company into an automation and digital transformation consulting firm, focused on enabling companies to become agile and innovate faster.
Prior to this, as the Asia Pacific CIO for global banking giant BNP Paribas, Franck managed a business unit with 250 staff and 10 country CIOs as direct reports. He turned Asia Pacific into BNP Paribas’ most effective IT division, as measured by leading global technology research and advisory firm ISG / Compass. Previously, Franck was a PwC consultant.
Franck holds an Executive MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Computer Engineering (with Honours) from the University of New South Wales.