Another former Telstra manager has been appointed to the National Broadband Network Company board.
Justin Milne, who quit as Telstra's managing director of media and broadband in 2010, is the second person with experience at Telstra to be appointed to the NBN Co board since early October, when the telco's former chief executive Ziggy Switkowski became chairman.
Both men are also directors of gaming group Tabcorp.
A spokesman for Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Mr Milne would sell his shares as a result of his appointment.
Mr Milne joined Telstra as managing director of Big Pond in 2002, only two years before Dr Switkowski walked away from the telco with a $2.1 million payout after being dumped by the board.
In 1999, Mr Milne joined internet service provider OzEmail as head of data casting, and later became chief executive.
That was also the year that OzEmail, which Mr Turnbull chaired, was sold to US telecommunications group MCI WorldCom.
Before entering politics, Mr Turnbull was one of OzEmail's three main shareholders.
Another new NBN Co board appointee, Simon Hackett, is resigning from the board of internet service provider iiNet at the end of November to take up his new position.
He had joined the iiNet board in August 2012.
Patrick Flannigan, who quit as the head of the NBN Co's construction division in early 2011, has also been appointed to the NBN Co board.
He has since founded telecommunications infrastructure maintenance firm Utility Services Group, which he will remain the chief executive of.
Global recruitment firm Egon Zehnder is conducting a search for a permanent NBN Co chief executive.
While the NBN Co board's appointees are decided by Mr Turnbull and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann, Dr Switkowski and the group's directors would approve the new CEO.
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