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Telstra CEO announces new Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Telstra Chief Executive Officer, Sol Trujillo, today announced the appointment of Fiona Balfour as Telstra's Chief Information Officer (CIO), reporting directly to Chief Operations Officer, Greg Winn.Ms Balfour joins Telstra in early April after 14 years with Qantas, the last five as Chief Information Officer. In her role as CIO at Qantas, she implemented an extensive program of replacing key legacy systems and introducing new infrastructure through a series of strategic outsourced relationships servicing Qantas's data centre, global and domestic network and desktop environments.
Ms Balfour will be responsible for leading Telstra's centralised IT organisation and core IT programs as well as overseeing the company's Operations Support System (OSS) and Business Support System (BSS) transformational programs over the next 3-5 years.
Ms Balfour has 26 years experience in business and technology. She commenced her career as a graduate recruit in the Victorian Public Service in 1980 before moving to the Commonwealth Government. Between 1985 and 1991 she worked in management consulting with WD Scott and the DMR Group.
Ms Balfour joined Qantas as an IT senior executive in 1992. She held a variety of portfolios before being appointed Chief Information Officer and a member of the Qantas Executive Committee in 2001. Her portfolio was expanded in 2004 with the creation of Qantas Business Services that delivered Information Technology, Procurement, Property, Transport and People services to the Group. Ms Balfour represented Qantas on the Supervisory and Full Boards of SITA SC (Geneva).
Ms Balfour holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Monash University (1979), a Graduate Diploma in Information Management from the University of New South Wales (1981) and a Master of Business Administration from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (1987).
Mr Vish Padmanabhan has accepted the role of Deputy Chief Information Officer. He joined Telstra in 2004 and prior to this spent 20 years with IBM.
Reference Number: 022/2006
