Tristan Sternson

Tristan Sternson is an Australian tech industry pioneer and the global co-lead of Singtel’s global digital, data, and cloud services consultancy NCS NEXT (formerly ARQ Group in Australia).

Tristan Sternson
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	Swinburne University of Technology
Organization	NCS NEXT

Background

Sternson studied at Swinburne University of Technology between 1998 and 2001, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Information Technology. During his time at university, Sternson made and sold computers and tech solutions, including a Y2K bug fix kit which he then on-sold to people during the transition to Y2K.^[1] He received the Swinburne University of Technology's Alumni Impact Award for the ‘Technology Impact Award’ category.^[2]

Career

In 2008, Sternson founded data and analytics firm InfoReady, where he was managing director for 10 years and led complex and cutting-edge information management and business intelligence projects across Asia-Pacific and Europe. The company was later acquired by ARQ (formerly Melbourne IT) for $35 million in 2016.^[3]

In 2014, Sternson was named as a Finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.^[4]

His next move saw Sternson as executive director at Melbourne IT, where he remained for nearly four years, before he was appointed CEO of ARQ in December 2019. Sternson took the underperforming former ASX-listed company and led the private sale by Quadrant Growth Fund for $35 million in February 2020.^[5] Sternson's transformation of the company led to ARQ's $290 million acquisition by Singtel subsidiary NCS in April 2022.^[6][7] He become the global co-lead of NCS NEXT.^[8]