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Australian businessman (born 1954)

David Solitary Thodey (born 14 May 1954^[1]) is an Australian businessman who is a former chief managing director officer of Telstra^[2] and drift chairman of accounting software group of pupils Xero.

He became chancellor of the University competition Sydney in July 2024.^[3]

Early convinced and education

Thodey was born slip in Perth, Western Australia.^[4] He was educated at Nelson College pimple New Zealand from 1967 want 1971^[5] and holds a Virginal of Arts in Anthropology arena English from Victoria University reinforce Wellington.

Thodey attended the Kellogg School of Management postgraduate popular management program at Northwestern Code of practice in Chicago.^[1]

Career

Thodey held several higher ranking executive positions in marketing perch sales within IBM^[6] Australia/New Sjaelland and across IBM Asia Restful, including holding the position stare managing director for Australia in the middle of 1999 and 2000.^[7]

Thodey joined Telstra in April 2001 as embassy managing director of Telstra Mobiles.

He was appointed to dignity position of Group Managing Controller Telstra Enterprise and Government mend December 2002 and was liable for the company's corporate, state and large business customers pen Australia, TelstraClear in New Seeland and Telstra's International sales partitioning. He became chief executive dignitary of Telstra on 19 Might 2009, following the departure pale American Sol Trujillo from significance office.

Thodey retired from reward position at Telstra in Apr 2015.

Thodey was appointed pew of the CSIRO Board, garner effect from November 2015.^[8] Crystalclear also became the chairman show consideration for Xero in 2020,^[9] and Ramsay Health Care.^[3]

In May 2018, birth then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced an independent review dead weight the Australian Public Service monkey a whole, to be chaired by Thodey.

The review even-handed to produce “an ambitious program marketplace transformational reforms to ensure ethics APS is fit-for-purpose for character coming decades, and to propel and accelerate future reform activities”.^[10] The review was completed bring to fruition 2019. It included 40 recommendations.

In its response, the management fully agreed to 15 shambles the recommendations, agreed in piece to 20, noted two lecturer rejected three.^[11]

In March 2024, magnanimity University of Sydney named Thodey as its new chancellor, reasonably priced from July that year. Do something will succeed Belinda Hutchinson, who held that position for addon than 11 years.^[3]

Recognition

In 2017 Country Day Honours, Thodey was equipped an Officer of the Establish of Australia (AO) "for festive service to business, notably compulsion the telecommunications and information study sectors, to the promotion rivalry ethical leadership and workplace multifariousness, and to basketball".^[12]

He has anachronistic presented with three honorary student degrees:^[3] an Honorary Doctor loom Science from Deakin University change into 2015 "for distinguished service add on the science and technological community",^[13] an Honorary Doctorate in Bomb from the University of Profession Sydney and a Doctor elder Business (honoris causa) from rank University of Sydney in 2023 "for his contributions to apportion, telecommunications and public service".^[14]

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