Andrew Morawski, President and CEO

Andrew Morawski is President of Telstra Incorporated. As President, Morawski aims to drive Telstra Incorporated to the forefront of the telecommunications industry through elevated customer service and building on Telstra's value added services for North America, South America, Asia Pacific, and European clients.

Before being promoted to President, Morawski was responsible for the expanded global sales engagement initiative managing Telstra resources in the United States, Australia, India, Hong Kong, China, United Kingdom, Singapore and Japan as Senior Vice President, Sales and Global Accounts. A key member of the Telstra team, Morawski helped foster a year on year sales growth of over 20 percent for multiple years during one of the toughest periods in the Telecom industry.

Before he became Telstra Inc.'s Senior Vice President, Sales and Global Accounts Morawski was responsible for managing all Telstra Incorporated sales team activities in both North and South America. Prior to this, Morawski was Eastern Regional Vice President of Telstra Inc., responsible for building and maintaining a team of sales professionals to support Telstra's rapidly growing multinational customer base in the Eastern Region of the United States. In this role he oversaw Telstra's offices in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. He was also responsible for building a localized provisioning, order control and customer care organization to support Telstra customers in the eastern region.

Before joining Telstra, Morawski held the positions of Regional VP of Sales and Director of Sales Operations at Prism Communications Services, a subsidiary of Comdisco. At Prism he built a sales infrastructure to support the sales of their next generation CLEC services in 11 cities across the eastern region of the United States.

Morawski was also the Manager of Business Development at Nortel Networks' Public Networks Division in Dallas, where he managed the relationship between Nortel and Southwestern Bell through the acquisition of Pacific Telesis and SNET. At this time he was part of the team that sold the largest deal in Nortel history, displacing a large portion of Lucent's 1A switches in the combined Southwestern Bell /Pacific Bell former 7 state region.

Morawski held several sales and sales management positions with Nynex Meridian Systems, a joint venture between Nortel and Nynex, selling enterprise CPE equipment to corporate customers. He started his sales career at American Communications in NYC.