Telstra Board Chairman announced the appointment of Maxine Brenner as a non-executive Director of the Telstra Board. Ms Brenner is an experienced ASX top-20 director with 14 years of board experience in some of the country's most high-profile companies. Her current Board roles include Woolworths, Qantas and Origin Energy.

She is a former Managing Director of Investment Banking at Investec Bank (Australia) Limited. She also practised as a corporate lawyer with Freehill Hollingdale & Page (now Herbert Smith Freehills) and spent several years as a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at both the University of NSW and the University of Sydney. Ms Brenner will join the Board effective 17 February.

She will stand for election at the Telstra Annual General Meeting in October this year.