Theresa Gattung
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Theresa Gattung operates as a New Zealand-based businesswoman. She has served as chief executive of Telecom New Zealand, the largest company on New Zealand's stock exchange by value, since 1999.
Gattung has a Bachelor of Management Studies in marketing from the University of Waikato and a law degree from Victoria University of Wellington.
Gattung worked in senior marketing roles at National Mutual and at the Bank of New Zealand before taking up a similar role at Telecom. In April 1996, she became Telecom's Group General Manager Services. In October 1999, she took over from Rod Deane as Telecom CEO.
In March 2006, Gattung courted controversy by characterising telcos to a Sydney audience as not "straight up" with customers on pricing. "Think about pricing," the press quoted her as saying. "What has every telco in the world done in the past? It's used confusion as its chief marketing tool. And that's fine ... But at some level, whether they consciously articulate or not, customers know that's what the game has been. They know we're not being straight up."
On February 2, 2007, Gattung announced that she would be leaving Telecom at the end of June.
In 2006, Theresa was placed at 49 on the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women.
[edit] External links
- Telecom New Zealand - Theresa Gattung
- New Zealand Herald "Gattung admits Telcos not being straight"
- News.com.au "Telecom boss to step down"
- New Zealand Herald "The Paul Holmes interview: Theresa Gattung"
