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Monday, 14 September 2009 17:39

NBN Co's top execs named

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The NBN Co has named five senior executives, all with strong backgrounds in various aspects of telecommunications. Christy Boyce (head of industry engagement); Greg Willis (head of program delivery); Jean-Pascal Beaufret (CFO); Kevin Brown (chief human resources officer & head of corporate services) and Tim Smeallie (head of commercial strategy)

Boyce was previously a principal at McKinsey & Co where she was a co-leader of its telecoms practice and managed many large, complex strategy issues for a range of corporations.

Willis was most recently general manager program delivery at Coles where he oversaw a major cost reduction programme. From 1999 to 2004 he held a number of senior executive positions at Telstra, including chief of retail and distribution and executive director, broadband & online services. He has also held CEO and senior operational roles at other organisations, where his responsibilities included managing the rollout of major infrastructure, including Pay TV. He will be responsible for managing the programme delivery of the National Broadband Network.

Jean-Pascal Beaufret was a director and CFO at Alcatel and later Alcatel-Lucent from 1999 to 2007. He is a former senior official in France's Ministry of Finance and served as deputy secretary of the Treasury and head of the Tax Administration.

Brown was executive general manager, people at Qantas and a member of its executive committee before stepping down in early 2009. Before joining Qantas in 2001 he was the head of Asia-Pacific business development at Nortel Networks and before that global head of human resources for Nortel's Enterprise Networks division based in San Francisco.

Smeallie was telecoms industry analyst at Citigroup until November 2008 when he left to found Numerico Advisory which specialised in strategic planning and investment analysis to the telecoms and media sectors. He will be responsible for the formulation and direction of NBN Co strategy and planning, including identifying critical issues, acquisition opportunities and business case validation.

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