After four years leading the team that is building and operating Australia’s National Broadband Network, NBN Co chief executive, Mike Quigley, is retiring.
The exact timing of Quigley’s departure is yet to be confirmed, with the chief set to remain on board until his successor is appointed. Quigley says the time is right to step down, having established NBN Co and setting the foundations to enable his successor to drive the company forward over the next 30 years.
“NBN Co is now a well-established wholesale telecommunications company with a nationwide workforce, delivery partners, infrastructure agreements, complex IT systems and more than 40 retail customers which are supplying fast, reliable and affordable broadband to a growing number of Australians," he said in a statement.
Quigley says a recent ramp in network construction, and the passing of 200,000 premises with fiber “gives me further confidence that the NBN build can be delivered by 2021 in line with the projections in the company’s Corporate Plan,” he added.
NBN co-chairman, Siobhan McKenna, says the firm has been lucky to have Quigley at the helm. "His intellect, tenacity and knowledge of telecommunications products and network architecture have taken NBN Co from a policy vision to a successful operating entity," he said.
This article originally posted on eGov Innovation