Management
In April 2006, the appointment of Fiona Balfour as Chief Information Officer saw Vish Padmanabhan demoted to his previous role of deputy CIO. On 6 February 2007, Balfour left the company, 10 months after she had joined the company following 14 years with Qantas.
On the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's documentary program Four Corners, Telstra's COO Greg Winn was revealed to have stated "We run an absolute dictatorship and that’s what's going to drive this transformation and deliver results... If you can't get the people to go there and you try once and you try twice... then you just shoot 'em and get them out of the way..."
Research has shown the deregulation of the Australian telecommunications industry has changed employment relations (ER) at Telstra. Between 1992 and 2009 Telstra's ER strategies included large-scale downsizing and outsourcing. It moved dramatically toward unitarist (anti-union) ER approaches, with a shift away from collective bargaining toward individual employment contracts.
In May 2009, Solomon Trujillo stood down as Chief Executive Officer to return to the United States. David Thodey took over the role.
| Year appointed | CEO |
|---|---|
| 1992 | W. Frank Blount |
| 1999 | Dr Zygmunt (Ziggy) Edward Switkowski |
| 2005 | Solomon Trujillo |
| 2009 | David Thodey |
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