Atturra’s CEO Stephen Kowal Speaks at Automic Invest 2025

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2025 has been another big year for Atturra, despite some challenging market conditions. In this video at Automic Invest 2025, Stephen is interviewed by Automic Group’s Senior Manager, Dylan Mark. He urges us to tighten our seatbelts for the year ahead, as the business is set to see larger enterprise deals and accelerated organic growth.

They also discuss:

  • Atturra’s unique position of being a true end-to-end sovereign provider, with over 90% of our business carried out onshore. In several of our key sectors sovereign procurement is important and it’s a big factor in winning business.
  • Industries where Atturra dominates, including Federal Government and Defence, where we have a strong heritage and are a Veteran Employer, Education where we have strong industry knowledge, Manufacturing, Local Government and Utilities.
  • Our acquisition strategy of buying businesses that are built to last not to sell. Atturra acquires companies that have been around for at least 5-10 years, with consistent growth rates of 10-20% over this time period.
  • Atturra’s growing portfolio of IP – including our K-12 Education product ScholarionTM, where we have a large pipeline of deals, and a significant market need and opportunity, with Australian schools changing school management systems on average every 13 years.
  • With 95% of AI programs currently failing in organisations, Atturra has a leadership position in setting up the data environment for successfully embedding AI in organisations.

Interested in the detail? Watch the full video below.

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Stephen Kowal
Stephen KowalChief Executive of Atturra

As the Chief Executive Officer, Stephen is accountable for overall leadership and direction. Since joining Atturra in 2019 he has rapidly grown the business organically and via strategic acquisitions. Stephen has extensive executive management experience across IT software and services, including an ANZ sales director position for a US multi-national IT company and several CIO roles locally and overseas.

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