G’day, I'm Andy Fitzsimon



a multi-disciplinary technology leader
with proven global impact.

Ops, Tech, Creative, & Sales combined,
a fanatically dedicated polymath.

Mantra

Do justice
to good work

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Values

  • Kindness
  • Energy
  • Gratitude
  • Trust

A listener, doer, & fixer
having worn many functional hats

Enterprise pedigree plus scale-up hustle.
Email me about your crusade

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Accolades

For making money, saving money, being likeable, staying formidable


President’s club

Chairman’s Award

Global Citizen

BEAST MODE

Sales Excellence


Strategic Execution

When it came time to sell Outfit, I read the market,
wrote the pitch, & picked the buyer.
The result got praise from the street, highlighted in every earnings call since.

I was Outfit's technology founder and first user. Revolutionizing brand operations


At Red Hat, I set the tone across regions,
making the field experience scalable and world-class


Servant Leadership

Team Satisfaction

360°

Top Reviews

Performance & Retention

Nothing is beyond us,
no task beneath me

If it needs to be done, I do it well & with pride.
I offer help, asking when it counts.



Globally Online

Early mornings & late nights are my most productive times.
My preference is to collaborate real-time so I slice my week to suit commitments and have done so for decades

Neurodivergent

Focus, empathy, & pragmatism.
Superpowers that get results!
I obsess over quality, war-game competitively, & stay realistic during volatility.

Testimonials

Real, Relevant, Recommended.


Bruce Stronge
Founder & CEO outfit

Managed Andy directly at Outfit

I met Andy as my client 10 years ago when we partnered to solve his global brand challenges at Red Hat. Andy’s vision, deep knowledge of the problem, combined with his market intuition and technical experience was critical to us building the right solution for the enterprise.

Staying close for the following 7 years; Andy eventually joined Outfit for 3 years and worked even closer with me. After helping us find, negotiate, and navigate our sale to a public US company, he remains my very good friend.

When he isn’t helping tech leadership with strategy, or partnering with sales to close our biggest deals, Andy is a technology servant-leader. All of his teams rated him incredibly highly as a manager to work for, and consequently they built and released working product quicker than any others I’ve worked with.

Andy is the most passionate technologist I’ve ever met, with deep and useful knowledge across current and emerging trends in tech, brand, design and marketing. He’s very very good at what he does. As important; he is kind, reliable, and hardworking. I truly hope to work with Andy again - be it as my client, a co-founder in a startup, or as a team mate in a global tech company.

James Lee
Product Manager

Directly managed by Andy at Outfit

I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Andy for my 7 years at Outfit. Over that time, I’ve known him as a customer, manager, and mentor. Andy has a talent that takes business to the next level, his strength is that he does so while caring deeply; lifting up all around him.

As a customer, Andy gave crucial feedback, innovative advice, and set the vision that pushed Outfit to maximize our full potential. In doing so, he created a virtuous cycle between driving business ROI for Red Hat and enabling sustained growth for Outfit through those early stages. Over the following years, we spent many a day (or the occasional long night) building products and solving problems. His commitment to technical excellence and great user experiences always rubbed off on those with whom he collaborated, making outcomes better for it.

As a manager, up until that point in my career, I had never had a manager who cared more deeply about me and what made me tick than Andy did. He knew when he needed to be hands-off and when he needed to be hands-on. His commitment to his reports was that of a true servant leader.

Finally, as a mentor, I’ve never met someone who is as adept at understanding and articulating the 10,000-foot view of the technology landscape, and then being able to zoom straight into the weeds on some truly complex and challenging problems. Andy helped me (and many others) navigate that world. I say it to many people I meet, and I’ll say it here: Andy Fitzsimon is one of the smartest dudes you’ll meet. Harness the energy, and great things will happen.

John Q. Adams
VP, Corporate Brand Marketing

Managed Andy directly at Red Hat

In short, Andy Fitzsimon is a genius. Some have even called him a unicorn, because he is a rare and magical breed.

Never before have I had the pleasure of working with someone who is equal parts brand champion, design whiz, digital renegade and technical rock star.

His creative instincts are on point and his engineering chops are undisputed.

Combine all those things and you've got a kick-ass technology brand professional for the 21st century.
You'd be lucky to have a unicorn like Andy on your team.

Manh Quoc Anh Nguyen
Lead Sofware Developer

Directly managed by Andy at Outfit

Andy cares for team members as a big brother / great buddy rather than as a boss.

I am indeed proud of working with Andy, which helps me unleash my innovation potential.

I would recommend Andy to any team that needs an advocate for innovation, strategy, brand and marketing.

I hope that we can have a chance to work together in future.

Tim Brown
CA Marketing Lead

Leadership team peer at Outfit

Working with Andy Fitz has been a joy and an absolute privilege.
I have never worked with anyone who is so far ahead of the curve.

If I ever wanted to know what marketers, designers, creatives, brand managers and techies will be thinking about in the future I could count on Andy already being there, thinking about it and solving for it.

Andy is a great creative thinker, amazingly hard worker, super smart technologist and a compassionate colleague.

We have worked directly together on many initiatives where he has stepped up to speak at conferences, been a massive contributor to rebrand projects, and been a huge advocate supporting GTM activities.

Anyone who gets to work with him or have him work for them should consider themselves incredibly fortunate.

Paula Weigel
VP, Brand & Client Experience

Red Hat Brand Teammate

How do I define someone who fuses a technical background with high design to reinvent brand consistency and innovation? There are no words.

Andy uses his unique skill set to challenge, innovate, refine, and rebuild.

He has changed the way our team looks at brand consistency and automation, but has done so in a way that's organic and true to our Brand and to our company.

He is uncompromising in his pursuit of quality in every thing he touches. Andy is not content to simply discover (or even build) a solution to a problem; he seeks out ways to scale that solution so it is impactful and beneficial to a larger audience.

Every organization should have an Andy Fitzsimon on their team; I can't wait to see what he does next.

Kyrsten Musich
Innovation Studio Lead

Worked with Andy in Marketing at Red Hat

Andy is a dream to work with. He is direct and kind in his feedback, wildly creative and excellent at building on ideas. He is amazing at keeping up with the trends in the marketplace and his creative talents surpass his technical and many other talents. He is brilliant to interact with and a true friend through and through. He has your back but is willing to tell you "when you have food in your teeth" when it comes to feedback.

He is one of my favorite people to jam on ideas with and then is someone who actually wants to make them happen with you. His understanding of a brand, the customer audience and his "internal clients" needs are well balanced when producing a piece of working or creating a new idea to move the organization forward. He is a true visionary with the right level of passion and commit to great work to get things done.

Akhil Bhaskar
Head of Compute SA, APJ

Collaborator-stakeholder at Red Hat

Andy is one of those guys that you want to and need to know
- incredibly energetic, very talented, and just a fun guy to be around.
He's one of those rare unicorns who is both creative and technical at the same time!

His knowledge and capability around brand strategy, automation, enablement, and marketing operational aspects are matched only by his passion and enthusiasm. A trusted advisor and friend.



Disclosures

Advisor

Performs no-conflict advisory services for analyst & investor groups; direct & via agency

Investor

Angel investor in Madrid-based Kaleidos, creators of penpot.app and taiga.io

Contributor

Makes ad-hoc donations of design, software, or funding to causes, & open source projects



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