Vodafone Australia CEO to be NBN Co CEO

Australian Financial Review:

Vodafone chief executive officer Bill Morrow will be crowned the new CEO of the NBN on Thursday as the government releases a strategic review of the NBN.

Ziggy Switkowski was an interm CEO, taking the reigns after Mike Quigley resigned. I expected Ziggy to stick around, but nope. Despite the common opinion of Vodafone’s performance the past two years, Bill Morrow (who was called in to fix up Vodafone Australia) has done a pretty good job reforming the company. All the interviews I’ve read with Morrow have depicted him as a very straight shooter and none of the usual weaselling you expect from executives.

What happens at NBN Co is far too politicised to really determine if someone like Morrow can make a difference, but let’s see what’s in that strategic review shall we?