The Council consists of 5 user and public interest group representatives and 5 industry representatives.
User and public interest group representatives |
Myra Pincott AO
Country Women's Association Australia |
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Myra Pincott is passionate about rural issues and at Council meetings raises issues particular to country areas. She serves on the Communications Alliance’s Consumer Council and the ACMA’s Consumer Consultative Forum. |
Dr Wayne Warburton
Wesley Mission Australia |
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Dr Wayne Warburton is a psychologist and financial counsellor at Wesley Mission in Sydney and a research fellow and lecturer with the Department of Psychology at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is also a consumer advocate on the Telstra Credit Management Working Group and the principal editor of Sharkwatch, a national financial counselling journal.
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Teresa Corbin
Australian Communications Consumer Action Network
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Teresa Corbin is Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), a new peak consumer body for the telecommunications industry. Teresa led the project to establish ACCAN, which began operating on 1 July 2009. Through her work in the community sector, in policy and management positions, she has built strong links with consumer groups at a regional, national and international level. |
Loretta Kreet
Legal Aid Queensland |
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Loretta Kreet has spent the last 10 years working exclusively in the area of consumer credit within the community sector and Legal Aid Queensland. She is a consumer director on the Financial Co-operative Dispute Resolution scheme, a board member of Parent to Parent Inc and a member of the Brisbane Consumers’ Association.
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Chris Dodds
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Chris Dodds represents the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) on Telstra's Low Income Measures Assessment Committee (LIMAC), in the position of chair. He is immediate past president of the Council of Social Service of NSW (NCOSS). He has been involved in community services for over 30 years and in telecommunications issues for the last 10 years, While not representing any particular organisation on the TIO Council, Chris has a keen interest in the challenges facing those on low incomes or confronting other disadvantage. |
Industry representatives |
Matt Russell
Vodafone |
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Matt Russell is a member of the legal and regulatory team with Vodafone Hutchison Australia. He previously worked as a systems analyst with Quest Technologies Pty Ltd in New York before taking up general counsel positions with the Internet Group Ltd and nineMSN in Sydney. |
Ross Wheeler
Albury Local Internet Pty Ltd |
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Ross Wheeler joined the Council as the elected member representative of internet service providers. He is the proprietor and founder of Albury Local Internet, a regional ISP, which has been operating since May 1995. |
Susan Sdregas
Optus |
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Sue Sdregas has worked in the telecommunications industry for the past 19 years with 15 of those spent at Optus. In her current role she manages a broad range of functions within the customer care arena including the escalated complaints team and the customer knowledge management team, and strategy and planning. |
Anne Howells
Telstra |
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Anne Howells is the General Manager of the TIO Governance Team at Telstra. Anne has worked at Telstra for five years, starting as the Assistant Company Secretary with responsibility for compliance. She is a chartered accountant by profession and before Telstra, worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers. While there she gained extensive experience in governance, risk management and compliance. |
Leroy Parkinson
iiNet
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Leroy Parkinson has worked for iiNet since 2002, and manages a team that handles issues such as law enforcement, compliance, liaising with the TIO, wholesale customer relations and credit risk assessment. Before joining iiNet, he worked at Optus as a business account manager. |
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