Director since November 2006

Mr Cousins joined Telstra as a non-executive Director in November 2006. He is a member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committees.

Experience:
Mr Cousins has more than 26 years experience as a company director. Mr Cousins was previously the Chairman of George Patterson Australia and is a former Director of Publishing and Broadcasting Limited, the Seven Network, Hoyts Cinemas group and NM Rothschild & Sons Limited. He was the first Chief Executive of Optus Vision and before that held a number of executive positions at George Patterson, including Chief Executive of George Patterson Australia.

Directorships of other listed companies - current:
Nil

Directorships of listed companies - past three years:
Nil

Other:
Current: Chairman, St. James Ethics Foundation (2010  - ).
Former: Chairman, Cure Cancer Australia (2004 - 2007); Director, Insurance Australia Group Ltd (2000 - 2007), The Starlight Foundation (1988 - 1994), Museum of Contemporary Art (1990 – 1994), Globe International Limited (2001 - 2003), Sydney Theatre Company Ltd (1990 – 1996), St George Foundation Ltd (1989 – 1995) and The Smith Family (1988 – 1994); President, The Shore Foundation Ltd (1992 – 1994).
Mr Cousins was previously a consultant to the Prime Minister.

Chief Customer Officer

Gordon was appointed to the new role of Chief Customer Officer to lead the newly formed business division of Telstra Customer Sales & Service, in August 2011. Gordon is responsible for sales and service to all of Telstra’s customer segments including consumer, business, and enterprise and government.

Gordon joined Telstra on 30 June 2010 as the Group Managing Director for the Consumer business. Prior to joining Telstra Gordon was with Hewlett-Packard (HP), where he was Vice President of the Personal Systems Group in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Before joining HP, Gordon was Sales and Service Director and a member of the executive board of T-Mobile in the UK.  He founded and was director of Dell.com in Europe, was also the founder of Dell Ventures Europe, the strategic investment arm of Dell Corporation, and a member of Dell’s European Executive Management team.

Gordon holds a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

Vice Chairman, CSL Ltd

Gordon was appointed Deputy/Vice Chairman and Director in CSL New World Mobility Limited, New World PCS Holdings Limited, Hong Kong CSL Limited and CSL Limited, on 15 April 2010.

Director, FOXTEL

Gordon was appointed a Director of FOXTEL on 16 July 2012.

Company Secretary

Mr Coleman was appointed Company Secretary of Telstra Corporation Limited effective 1 January 2012.

Mr Coleman joined Telstra in 1998 and has served in senior legal roles across the company including Sensis, Mergers & Acquisitions, Telstra Operations and, most recently, as General Counsel, Finance and Administration, Office of the Company Secretary and NBN.  In that role he has been responsible for Telstra’s continuous disclosure compliance, all legal aspects of the Annual Report preparation and Annual General Meeting, as well as annual financial results announcements.  Mr Coleman also played a key role in the negotiation of the Definitive Agreements for Telstra’s participation in the rollout of the National Broadband Network.  Before joining Telstra, Mr Coleman was a senior lawyer at a leading Australian law firm.  He holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Bachelor of Economics from the Australian National University.

Group Managing Director, Telstra Media

Rick Ellis was appointed to the newly created role of Group Managing Director Telstra Media, effective 16 January 2012. Telstra Media is a new business group created to manage Telstra’s end-to-end media capabilities including Sensis, BigPond, Trading Post, IPTV, FOXTEL and content agreements.

Rick was formerly Chief Executive Officer of TVNZ, New Zealand’s leading broadcast television and digital media company, a position he held for 10 years.

Rick began his career in the IT industry in Brisbane in the late 1970s, and over the following 20 years, held a number of senior leadership positions in the industry in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Ansett New Zealand in 1995 and subsequently moved to Melbourne as General Manager Sales and Marketing for Ansett Airlines of Australia.

From 2002-2006, Rick was Vice President and Managing Director of EDS New Zealand.

Rick holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Auckland University and is married with three adult children.

Group Managing Director
Human Resources

Tracey Gavegan joined Telstra as a human resources executive in April 2006. She has advised the company’s Enterprise & Government and Operations business units.  In July 2011 Tracey was appointed as Group Managing Director, Human Resources. In this role, Tracey and her HR team will work across Telstra to continue to build a strong customer focused culture and continue to develop the great people at Telstra.

Before joining Telstra, Tracey was the Director of Human Resources for the wine and spirits business, Maxxium ANZ, working across Australia and Asia. Prior to this, Tracey held several lead human resources roles across a variety of business sectors from pharmaceuticals to consumer goods in blue chip organisations.

Throughout her career, Tracey has focused on change-management roles in large-scale, complex and multi-country environments.

Group Managing Director, Telstra Enterprise & Government

Paul Geason commenced as Group Managing Director of Telstra Enterprise and Government on 24 January 2011. In this role Paul is responsible for Telstra’s relationship and sales to approximately 1,500 large business, enterprise and government customers in Australia.

Prior to his current appointment, Paul was the Group Managing Director of Telstra Wholesale where he was responsible for the company's relationship, sales and service delivery to wholesale customers in Australia and globally.

Paul rejoined Telstra in August 2006 as Executive Director of Convergent Sales in Telstra Enterprise and Government where he was responsible for the marketing and sale of voice, data, mobile and unified communications solutions to the company's large business, corporate and government customers.

Before joining Telstra in 2006, Paul was Senior Vice President of Sales at a telecom operating software company based in Boston, USA.

Paul originally joined Telstra in 1994 and held many positions over an 11 year period in Telstra's legal directorate and product management teams.

Prior to joining Telstra in 1994, Paul worked with Baker & McKenzie Solicitors.

Group Managing Director, Telstra Business

Will Irving was appointed Group Managing Director of Telstra Business in August 2011. In this role he is responsible for Telstra’s relationship and sales to more than one million Australian small businesses and medium sized enterprises.

Prior to this, Will was Telstra’s Group General Counsel from January 2005. In that role Will was responsible for advising Telstra's Board, CEO and senior management and played a wide-ranging role across the company, including a key role in Telstra’s $11B deal with NBN Co. Will joined Telstra in 1997 and progressively headed legal services in a number of business units. From 2001-2005 he was Deputy Group General Counsel. Prior to being employed by Telstra, Will worked at a large national law firm, and spent time seconded to Telstra’s Business & Government and Mobiles legal teams.

In 2006 he was named Australian Corporate Lawyer of the Year. The Communications Law Committee of the International Bar Association gave him its Outstanding Achievement Award in 2008. More recently, the Telstra legal team under Will’s leadership was the ALB Australian Law Awards’ In-House Team of the Year for 2010.

Will holds degrees in Law (Hons) and in Commerce (Economics and Accounting majors) from the University of Melbourne.

Group Managing Director - Telstra Wholesale

Stuart was appointed as Telstra Wholesale’s Group Managing Director in July 2011. He brings to the role a wealth of experience in the telecommunications industry, including engineering, operations and products. Prior to his appointment, Stuart was Group Managing Director with responsibility for preparing Telstra for the rollout of the National Broadband Network.

Previously, Stuart was Executive Director of the Telstra Program Office reporting to the CEO. In this role he was responsible for tracking and driving key elements of Telstra's overall Transformation program (approximately $12B in capex over 5 years), and, with the CFO, planning and managing Telstra's overall annual capital budget.

Stuart has over 40 years’ experience with Telstra and its predecessor organisations after starting as a cadet engineer. An executive since 1987, and first appointed Managing Director in 1996, Stuart has held a variety of executive and senior roles across products, engineering, billing, marketing, IT, international, procurement, and operations.

Stuart is a Telstra nominee director on the joint venture boards of Reach (based in Hong Kong), 3GIS, and 1300Australia, and has served on other local and international boards.

Stuart holds Bachelor degrees in Engineering (Electrical) and Commerce from the University of Melbourne and was recently included in the 2011 Engineers Australia list of the country’s 100 most influential engineers.

Group Managing Director; Telstra Innovation, Products and Marketing

Kate McKenzie is Group Managing Director, Telstra Innovation, Products and Marketing. Kate oversees product, promotion and pricing across Telstra, including the major product units – Mobile Products, Fixed Voice and Broadband, Network Applications and Services, Data and IP as well as the NBN team and the Chief Technology Office. She was appointed to this newly established position in March 2010.

Kate embarked on her current role as Telstra began its journey to become a sales, service and marketing led company. She has overseen the rollout of Telstra’s new brand identity, has been at the forefront of the turnaround in Telstra’s mobile business, and is leading the company’s transition to the NBN by creating truly differentiated products and services in a highly competitive market.

Prior to this, Kate was Group Managing Director of Strategic Marketing, a position she was appointed to in March 2009, and before that, she was Group Managing Director of the Telstra Wholesale business unit, a position she held for just over three years.

Kate joined Telstra in August 2004 as head of Telstra's regulatory group. Within a year she was promoted to the role of Deputy Group Managing Director for Public Policy and Communications. Before joining Telstra, Kate was Director-General of the Department of Commerce in New South Wales and she previously held a range of senior executive roles in government departments and offices.

Kate is a Director of FOXTEL and Allianz Australia and she has been a Director of Sydney Water and the Rail Corporation of New South Wales.

Kate holds Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Law degrees from the University of Sydney.

Group General Counsel

Carmel Mulhern became Telstra’s Group General Counsel on 1 January 2012. Carmel is responsible for providing legal advice to Telstra’s Board, CEO and senior management.

Prior to that, Carmel was Telstra’s Company Secretary, responsible for corporate governance and shareholder communications to Telstra’s 1.4 million shareholders, continuous disclosure, and support to the Telstra board of directors.

Carmel joined Telstra in July 2000 as Corporate Counsel and soon became General Counsel within the Finance & Administration business unit.

In these roles, Carmel has played a key role in the T2 and T3 (privatisation) transactions and, more recently, the NBN transaction.

Prior to joining Telstra, Carmel was a senior associate in the Mergers & Acquisitions group of Mallesons Stephen Jaques.  Carmel has also held the position of associate to Justice Mary Gaudron of the High Court of Australia and associate to Justice Philip Cummins of the Supreme Court of Victoria.  She has lectured at Monash University on director’s duties and advanced corporations law and is the author of two legal text books.

Carmel holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Queensland and a Master of Laws from Monash University.

Carmel is a nominee director of Telstra Super and a member of Telstra’s Ethics Committee. 

Group Managing Director, Business Support and Improvement

Robert Nason joined Telstra in February 2010. He is the Group Managing Director of Business Support and Improvement.

Robert joined Telstra from Tabcorp where he was Managing Director, Wagering responsible for Tabcorp's race wagering and media businesses, including Sky Channel and Sydney radio station 2KY. He joined Tabcorp in June 2006 after holding the position of Chief Executive of Racing Victoria for more than two years.

Prior to this, Robert spent nearly two decades in telecommunications or related industries. This included holding the positions of Vice President & General Manager of Global Industries with Electronic Data Systems Corporation in the U.S. and Executive Vice President at AT Kearney.

Robert has also held senior leadership positions at Coopers & Lybrand and KPMG where his area of speciality was Communications, Media and Entertainment both in Australia and overseas.

In March 2012 Robert became a member of the Foxtel Board of Directors and in May 2012 was named Chairman.

Robert holds a Bachelor of Business Studies.

Chief Financial Officer, Group Managing Director, Finance

Andrew Penn is an experienced chief executive and chief financial officer with a career spanning more than 30 years, the past 20 being at AXA Asia Pacific. Andy held a variety of positions at AXA, including Group Chief Executive (2006-2011), Chief Executive Officer for Australia and New Zealand, Group Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive for Asia and spent time based in Australia, Hong Kong, Thailand and Indonesia. Andy played a key role in building AXA’s successful Asian platform which was sold to its parent company in 2011 for $10.4bn.

Prior to joining AXA, Andy worked in London with the P&O Shipping Group in a variety of finance roles.

In addition to his business activities, Andy has contributed widely to not-for-profit and community organisations. He is Life Governor and Foundation Board member of Very Special Kids. He is also a member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Advisory Council, The Big Issue Advisory Group, and an Amy Gillet Foundation Ambassador.

Andy is a fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, he has an MBA from Kingston University, London and is a Graduate of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.

Chief Operations Officer

Brendon Riley is the Chief Operations Officer for Telstra. Brendon joined Telstra on 1 March 2011 from IBM, where he was General Manager of Northeast Europe. 

Prior to this role, Brendon served as Chief Executive of IBM in the UK & Ireland. Previously, based in Vienna, he served as General Manager of IBM in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia/CIS, Middle East, Africa, Austria and Switzerland.  He also served as a member of IBM’s Corporate Strategy Team.

Prior to this, Brendon was based in Sydney, where he was the Managing Director & Chief Executive of IBM Global Services Australia, an IBM, Telstra & Lend Lease joint venture company.

Brendon moved to Sydney from Tokyo, where he was based for over five years focusing on the development of the IBM services business across the Asia Pacific (AP) region. His roles within IBM Global Services included Director of Marketing and Operations, and Vice President, Distribution Sector.

Brendon began his IBM career in Perth, Western Australia, as a sales representative. Brendon holds a Bachelor of Business in Information Processing from the Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University). 

Group Managing Director - Corporate Affairs

Dr Tony Warren is Group Managing Director of Corporate Affairs at Telstra. He is responsible for Regulatory Affairs; Government Relations; National Broadband Network (NBN) Engagement; External and Internal Communications; the Office of the CEO; and Sustainability. The group has accountability for managing Telstra’s external environment and corporate reputation. Dr Warren is based in Canberra.

Experience:

Before taking up his current role, Dr Warren was Executive Director of NBN Engagement for Telstra. Working with a dedicated team of experts from across the company, Dr Warren led the negotiations on behalf of Telstra that culminated in an AUD$11 billion deal to secure Telstra’s participation in the Australian Government’s National Broadband Network. From September 2005 to June 2010, Dr Warren was Executive Director Regulatory Affairs for Telstra. In this role, he had primary responsibility for managing Telstra’s regulatory issues and public policy positioning.

Prior to joining Telstra in 2002, Dr Warren was a Director of the Network Economics Consulting Group (NECG). He joined NECG in 1997 and helped build it into Australia’s premier regulatory economics consulting firm, working closely with companies such as Telstra on all economic aspects of regulation, competition policy, trade practices, intellectual property and related issues. During his time at NECG, Dr Warren spent four months on secondment at the Oxford Economic Research Associates in the United Kingdom working on a series of projects.

Before joining NECG, Dr Warren was a post-doctoral fellow in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University, where he led a team of researchers developing methodologies for quantifying barriers to trade and investment in services. This project, which built upon Dr Warren’s PhD dissertation on “The Political Economy of Services Trade and Investment”, allowed, for the first time, the systematic modelling of the economic effects of services liberalisation, including telecommunications.

Group Managing Director, Telstra Consumer

Director since September 2009

Mr Higgins joined the Telstra Board as a non-executive Director in September 2009. He is a member of the Audit Committee. He was a member of the NBN Due Diligence Committee whilst it was operative.p>

Experience:
Mr Higgins is an experienced company director who has worked at very senior levels of both government and private sectors. Most recently he was Chairman of the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute, a global initiative to accelerate the worldwide development of carbon capture and storage technologies. From 2003 to 2004, he was Chairman of the then Prime Minister’s Energy Task Force. Prior to that he was Secretary of the Department of Industry, Science and Resources.

Directorships of other listed companies - current:
Director, APA Group (2004 - ) and Argo Investments Limited (2011 - ).

Directorships of listed companies - past three years:
Director, Ricegrowers Limited (SunRice) (2005 – 2012).

Other:
Current: Chairman, CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship Advisory Committee (2005 - ); Director, St. James Ethics Foundation (2010 - ).
Former: Chairman, Snowy Hydro-Electric Scheme (1992 - 1997), CRC for Coal in Sustainable Development (2004 - 2008), APEC Energy Working Group (1993 - 1997) and Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute (2009 – 2012); Director, Australian Biodiesel Group (2006 - 2007), Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (1997 - 2002), CSIRO (1997 - 2002), Austrade (1997 - 2002), Australian Tourist Commission (1997 - 2002) and Australian Sports Commission (1997 - 2002).

Ms Livingstone joined Telstra as a non-executive Director in November 2000 and was appointed as Chairman in May 2009. She is the Chairman of the Nomination Committee and a member of the Audit, Remuneration and Technology Committees. She was a member of the NBN Due Diligence Committee whilst it was operative.

Experience:
Ms Livingstone is a Chartered Accountant and has held several finance and general management roles predominantly in the medical devices sector. Ms Livingstone was the Chief Executive of Cochlear Limited (1994 – 2000).

Directorships of other listed companies - current:
Director, Macquarie Bank Limited (2003 - ), Macquarie Group Limited (2007 - ) and WorleyParsons Ltd (2007 - ).

Directorships of listed companies - past three years:
Nil

Other:
Current: Member, New South Wales Innovation Council (2007 - ), President of the Australian Museum Trust (2012 - ), Director, The George Institute (2012 - ) and Saluda Medical Pty Ltd (2013 - ).

Former: Chairman, CSIRO (2001 - 2006); Chairman and Director, Australian Business Foundation (2000 – 2005); Director, Future Directions International Pty Ltd (2007 - 2011), Goodman Fielder Ltd (2000 – 2003), Rural Press Limited (2000 – 2003), Macquarie Graduate School of Management Pty Ltd (2007 - 2008) and Sydney Institute (1998 – 2005). Previously, also Member, Department of Accounting and Finance Advisory Board Macquarie University, Business/Industry/Higher Education Collaboration Committee (BIHECC), Federal Government’s National Innovation System Review Panel and The Royal Institution of Australia Council.
 

Director since July 2008

Mr Mullen joined Telstra as a non-executive Director in July 2008. He is the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Nomination Committee.

Experience:
Mr Mullen has worked for over two decades in a multitude of senior positions with different multinationals. His corporate experience includes 10 years with the TNT Group, with two years as its Chief Operating Officer. From 1991 to 1994, he held the position of Chief Executive Officer of TNT Express Worldwide, based in the Netherlands. Mr Mullen joined Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN) as an Advisor in 1994, becoming Chief Executive Officer of DHL Express Asia Pacific in 2002 and Joint Chief Executive Officer, DHL Express in 2005. From 2006 to 2009, Mr Mullen was Global Chief Executive Officer, DHL Express. Mr Mullen was appointed in 2011 as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Asciano Ltd.

Directorships of other listed companies - current:
Director, Asciano Ltd (2011 -  ).

Directorships of listed companies - past three years:
Director, Brambles Limited (2009 - 2011), MAp Airports Limited (2010 - 2011), Deutsche Post World Net, Board of Management, Germany (2005 - 2009) and Embarq Corporation USA (2006 - 2009).

Other:
Current: Member, Australian Graduate School of Management (2005 - ).
Former: Chairman, National Foreign Trade Council (Washington DC) (2008 - 2010); Director, International Swimming Hall of Fame (USA) (2005 – 2008).

Director since August 2010

Dr Scheinkestel joined Telstra as a non-executive Director in August 2010.  She is Chairman of the Audit Committee and was Chairman of the NBN Due Diligence Committee whilst it was operative.

Experience:
Dr Nora Scheinkestel is an experienced company director having served in a wide range of industry sectors and in the public, government and private spheres. Dr Scheinkestel is also an Associate Professor at the Melbourne Business School at Melbourne University and a member of the Takeovers Panel. Dr Scheinkestel’s executive background is as a senior banking executive in international and project financing, responsible for the development and financing of major projects in Australasia and South East Asia. Her current consulting practice assists government, corporate and institutional clients in areas such as corporate governance, strategy and finance. In 2003, Dr Scheinkestel was awarded a centenary medal for services to Australian society in business leadership.

Directorships of other listed companies - current:
Director, Orica Limited (2006 - ) and Pacific Brands Limited (2009 - ).

Directorships of listed companies - past three years:
Director, AMP Limited (2003-2013)

Other:
Current: Nil

Former: Chairman, South East Water Limited (2002 - 2005) and Energy21 and Stratus Networks Gas Group (1997 - 1999); Director, IOOF Funds Management (1998 - 2001), Medical Benefits Fund of Australia Ltd (1997 - 2001), Hydro Tasmania (2001 - 2004), City West Water Ltd (1995 - 2002), Docklands Authority (1998 - 2003), Newcrest Mining Limited (2000 - 2007), Mayne Pharma Limited (2005 - 2007), Mayne Group Limited (2005), North Limited (1996 - 2000), AMP Capital Investors Limited (2004 – 2011) AMP Bank Limited (2006 – 2012) and AMP Capital Holdings (2005-2013).

Ms Seale joined the Telstra Board as a non-executive Director in May 2012.

Experience:
Ms Seale has over 20 years experience in senior executive roles in Australia and overseas. Most recently she was the Managing Director of Random House, Australia (with managerial responsibility for Random House New Zealand) and President, Asia Development for Random House Inc, the global company.

Previously, she was Chief Executive Officer for The Macquarie Dictionary and Lansdowne Publishing from 1997-1999. Ms Seale was the Chief Executive Officer for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation from 1994 to 1997.

She is a member of the audit committee.

Directorships of Other Listed Companies – current:
Nil

Directorships of Listed Companies - past three years:
Nil

Other:
Current: Director, Random House Australia, New Zealand (2011 - ) and Sydney Writers Festival (2011 - ).
Former:  Director, then Vice President, Australian Publishers Association (2004 - 2012); Trustee, Powerhouse Museum (2004 - 2011) and Chair, Scholarship Committee, Chief Executive Women (2011- 2012).

Chief Executive Officer

Mr Thodey joined Telstra in April 2001 as Group Managing Director of Telstra Mobiles. He was appointed to the position of Group Managing Director Telstra Enterprise and Government in December 2002 and was responsible for the company's corporate, government and large business customers in Australia, TelstraClear in New Zealand and Telstra's International sales division.  Before joining Telstra, Mr Thodey was Chief Executive Officer of IBM Australia/New Zealand and previously held several senior executive positions in marketing and sales with IBM across Asia Pacific. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and English from Victoria University in New Zealand. Mr Thodey attended the Kellogg Post-Graduate School General Management Program at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Directorships of other listed companies - current:
Nil

Directorships of listed companies - past three years:
Nil

Other:
Current: Nil
Former: Chairman, TelstraClear New Zealand (2003 – 2009) and Chairman, Basketball Australia (2008 - 2010).

Director since September 2009 

Mr Vamos joined the Telstra Board as a non-executive Director in September 2009. He is a member of the Nomination, Remuneration and Technology Committees.

Experience:
Mr Vamos has over 30 years experience in the information technology, internet and online industry. He led Microsoft Australia and New Zealand from 2003 to January 2007 before moving to the United States to become the company’s online business head of worldwide Sales and International Operations.  Previously, he was Chief Executive Officer of ninemsn. Mr Vamos also worked for Apple Computer in the 1990s after spending 14 years in senior management roles at IBM Australia. He is the founding President of the Society for Knowledge Economics (SKE), a not-for-profit think tank that encourages new and better practices in leadership and management.

Directorships of other listed companies - current:
Director, David Jones (2012 - ).

Directorships of listed companies – past three years:
Nil

Other:
Current: President, Society for Knowledge Economics (2005 - ); Director, eGeneration Investments Pty Limited (1999 -  ), Medibank Private Limited (2011 - ), Australian Health Management Group Pty Limited (2011 -  ) and BDB Soti Pty Ltd (2012 -  ).
Former: Chief Executive Officer, ninemsn (1998 – 2002); Vice President, Australia and New Zealand, Microsoft (2003 - 2007).

Director since May 2006

Mr Zeglis joined Telstra as a non-executive Director in May 2006. He is Chairman of the Technology Committee.

Experience:
Mr Zeglis has a legal background, and became partner with the law firm Sidley & Austin in 1978. He was General Counsel of AT&T from 1986 - 1998. His qualifications include a BSc in Finance from the University of Illinois, and a JD in Law from Harvard.  

Mr Zeglis has had a long and distinguished career in the US telecommunications sector. He joined AT&T in 1984, and was elected as President of AT&T in 1998 and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the AT&T Wireless Group in 1999. He continued as CEO of AT&T Wireless until retiring in November 2004 following the company’s sale to Cingular Wireless.

Directorships of other listed companies - current:
Director, Helmerich & Payne Corporation (1989 - ).

Directorships of listed companies - past three years:
Nil

Other:
Current: Director, The Duchossois Group (including AMX) (2011 -  ) and State Farm Automobile Insurance (2004 - ).
Former: Director, Georgia Pacific Corporation (2001 - 2005); Sara Lee Corporation (1998 - 2000); and Illinois Power Company (1992 - 1996).