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title: "Anthropic Sydney office"
description: "Anthropic has officially opened a Sydney office and appointed Theo Hourmouzis as General Manager for Australia and New Zealand. Hourmouzis brings more than 20 years of technology leadership experience across Asia Pacific and most recently served as Snowflake’s Senior Vice President for Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN. He will lead the growing local team, shape a regional strategy for customers, and bring Claude into important work. The team will deepen relationships with enterprise customers and AI for Science research partners while delivering on commitments in a memorandum of understanding with the Australian government. Local partnerships include Canva, Xero, and YMCA South Australia, where custom Claude AI skills turn operational data into actionable insights, reduce branded content production from hours to minutes, and bring previously outsourced technical work in-house."
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# Anthropic Sydney office

[Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic) · Jul 13, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Anthropic has officially opened a Sydney office and appointed Theo Hourmouzis as General Manager for Australia and New Zealand. Hourmouzis brings more than 20 years of technology leadership experience across Asia Pacific and most recently served as Snowflake’s Senior Vice President for Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN. He will lead the growing local team, shape a regional strategy for customers, and bring Claude into important work. The team will deepen relationships with enterprise customers and AI for Science research partners while delivering on commitments in a memorandum of understanding with the Australian government. Local partnerships include Canva, Xero, and YMCA South Australia, where custom Claude AI skills turn operational data into actionable insights, reduce branded content production from hours to minutes, and bring previously outsourced technical work in-house.

## Context

Anthropic describes the Sydney opening as the next step in its investment in Australia and New Zealand. The office is intended to bring the company closer to customers and support relationships with enterprises, research partners, and the Australian government.

## Approach / What changed

Anthropic appointed Theo Hourmouzis to lead its Australia and New Zealand team and shape a customer-focused regional strategy. It is also expanding local partnerships with Canva, Xero, and YMCA South Australia, alongside enterprise, research, and government commitments.

## Takeaways

- Theo Hourmouzis joins from Snowflake, where he was Senior Vice President for Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN, and will lead Anthropic’s growing local team.
- YMCA South Australia uses custom Claude AI skills to turn operational data into actionable insights, reduce branded content production from hours to minutes, and bring technical work in-house.
- Anthropic’s regional relationships include Canva, Xero, Commonwealth Bank, Quantium, Australian National University, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, and Curtin University.

**Tags:** [AI](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai), [Claude](https://yomu.fyi/topic/claude)

- Source: [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/theo-hourmouzis-general-manager-australia-new-zealand)
- Source URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/theo-hourmouzis-general-manager-australia-new-zealand
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