Logicalis Australia has strengthened its technology assurance and advisory capability with the appointment of Luke Gardiner as principal of its Technology Assurance Services (TAS) group, a move aimed at supporting organisations operating in increasingly regulated environments.
Announced in Melbourne, the appointment forms a central part of technical services director Peter Cardassis’s strategy to evolve Logicalis Australia’s managed services portfolio toward what the company describes as regulatory-ready solutions. The shift comes as regulatory scrutiny intensifies across financial services, critical infrastructure and other highly regulated sectors.
In his new role, Gardiner will lead advisory-led engagements across the financial services sector, helping organisations translate regulatory obligations into practical, executable uplift programs. Logicalis says the focus will be on strengthening both cybersecurity and operational resilience, while ensuring compliance requirements do not hinder business performance.
Logicalis Australia general manager Lisa Fortey said the appointment comes at a critical time for regulated organisations. She said Gardiner brings deep expertise in technology assurance and a strong understanding of how to meet rising regulatory expectations in a practical and business-focused way, strengthening the company’s ability to guide clients through increasingly complex compliance landscapes.
Cardassis said the integration of Technology Assurance Services into Logicalis Australia’s core transformation, managed services, security operations centre and private cloud offerings reflects growing customer demand for compliance-by-design. He said appointing Gardiner to lead the practice ensures the company’s commercial models and service delivery are inherently defensible against rigorous regulatory standards.
Gardiner brings more than 20 years of experience across solution sales, pre-sales architecture, consulting and transformation delivery. His career includes senior advisory and leadership roles at Dell Technologies, NTT and Ethan Group, where he built and scaled consulting-led sales practices and delivered outcomes for large enterprise customers.
Earlier in his career, Gardiner led complex resilience and outsourcing programs at Siemens, including major transformation initiatives and merger and acquisition integration and separation activities. He later joined Dell Technologies, where he headed cyber resiliency and security consulting, supporting financial services, federal government and enterprise organisations operating under strict regulatory regimes.
Commenting on his appointment, Gardiner said Australian organisations need a clear and defensible view of risk to assess readiness and their ability to respond to major incidents. He said this requires moving beyond policy and frameworks to focus on how technology, suppliers and operating models perform in practice.
He said regulated organisations do not need theoretical models, but practical guidance that identifies current gaps and prioritises uplift in a way that stands up to regulatory scrutiny.
As obligations such as CPS 230 and the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act continue to be enforced, organisations are facing increasingly compressed timelines to achieve compliance. Logicalis Australia says these pressures drove the development of its Technical Operations and Readiness Assessment (TORA) methodology, which will underpin future TAS engagements.
TORA is a workshop-based discovery and assessment program designed to help regulated organisations accelerate cyber resilience. It delivers a roadmap to uplift technology operations and align them to a unified control set tailored to each organisation’s governance, risk and compliance obligations.
Gardiner said Logicalis Australia plans to host a series of industry-aligned roundtables in the coming months to explore governance and compliance challenges and to gather feedback on how the TORA methodology can be further refined for organisations operating in highly regulated sectors.
