Damien Minehan has spent more than twenty years placing technology leadership in Australia. He founded Galileo Search in Sydney in 2009 and ran it through every major shift since: ERP modernisation, the cloud migrations, digital transformation, and the data platform build-out that followed.
Then generative AI arrived, and a familiar pattern accelerated. Australian businesses were funding pilots, buying tools and announcing strategies, and the initiatives kept stalling. Not because the technology failed, but because nobody accountable owned the outcome. AI adoption was failing for want of accountable leadership.
So he rebuilt Galileo Search around one desk: find the AI leader, then build their team. The Head of AI, Chief AI Officer or AI Transformation Lead comes first. Then the seats around them: the lead GenAI engineer, the solutions architect, the platform engineer, the governance lead. One accountable search partner across the whole build, permanent and contract.
The firm is evidence-led by design. We track live Australian AI demand posting by posting and hold more than 22,000 salary data points across 74 roles and six cities. That data sits underneath every shortlist, every salary band and every fee conversation, so decisions are grounded in what the market is actually doing, not vibes.
