Simon Hackett?
Things might be looking up for the NBN.
Australia's communications minister Malcolm Turnbull has followed through on his promise to appoint people with experience delivering “linear infrastructure” to the board of NBN Co, the organisation charged with building Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN). Turnbull today announced that Internode founder and iiNet …
Agreed. And it gives Turnbull the capacity to back-pedal. If the likes of Hackett state "Implementing FTTP will save x billion over 50 years compared to maintaining FTTN + copper" then Turnbull can recommend the implementation of FTTP with a straight face. After all, we all know he wants to, but is currently forced to answer to two chumps and a retard.
Of course they are "non-executive" - there can only be one executive director - for the NBN that is Ziggy. There is nothing special about this, all boards work this way. The executive director is the person who executes the work. The non-executive directors are there to direct, they do not work for NBNco, and thus and are not executives.