Appen Limited announced the appointment of Armughan Ahmad as Chief Executive Officer of the company, effective from no later than 30 January 2023. Appen's current CEO Mark Brayan, will remain with the business until 28 February 2023 to ensure a smooth transition. Armughan brings over 25 years of global experience in the technology industry having led product, sales, and services organizations at KPMG, Dell Technologies, and Hewlett Packard in the past.

In his most recent role as President and Managing Partner of Digital at KPMG in Canada, Armughan oversaw the firm's innovative services to product shift by delivering exponential technology-based market offerings to accelerate industry sector focused digital transformation for customers. Prior to KPMG, Armughan served as the Senior Vice President of Dell Technologies where he led Dell EMC Cloud, High Performance Computing, Workload Solutions and Alliances businesses. Armughan previously held executive positions at Hewlett Packard, 3Com and other technology companies across US, Europe, an Asian markets.

Armughan will be based out of Appen's offices in North America.