Catherine Livingstone, the chair of Australia’s largest telecoms and media company Telstra, is retiring from the board of directors and will be replaced by John Mullen. Mullen has been a Telstra director since 2008 and the CEO of local freight logistics company Asciano since 2011.
Catherine Livingstone (pictured), the chair of Australia’s largest telecoms and media company Telstra (ASX:TLS), is retiring from the board of directors and will be replaced by John Mullen.
Livingstone, who has been a director since 2000 and became chair in 2009, will hand over to Mullen, currently managing director and CEO of local freight logistics company Asciano, in the coming months.
Commenting on her departure in a press release, she said she believed the timing was right to enable a new chair “to drive Telstra’s continued growth as a world class technology company”.
Telstra, led by Andrew Penn, spent A$191m (US$137.22m) on 4G spectrum in early February, as it seeks to extend access throughout regional Australia.
Livingstone is a chartered accountant and has held several finance and general management roles, primarily in the medical devices sector. In 2008, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to the development of Australian science, technology and innovation policies for the business sector.
Mullen has been a Telstra director since July 2008 and Asciano’s CEO since 2011. From 2005 to 2009, he was global CEO of courier delivery services company TNT Express.