Mary Roberts

Commercial Executive at Telstra Digital Infrastructure

Speaker

Mary is the Chief Commercial Officer for Telstra Digital Infrastructure (TDI).

Mary is responsible for enabling profitable, scalable growth for TDI by leading the end-to-end commercial system. This includes driving market insight and offer positioning through to pricing, contracting, billing integrity, and sales execution to support TDI’s growth agenda, maximise value, and manage risk.

Mary has worked in telecommunications for 20 years. She commenced her career as a solicitor at King & Wood Mallesons specialising in competition and consumer law, before joining Telstra’s legal team in 2011. She worked as Telstra’s M&A General Counsel where she led deal structuring, negotiation and execution of >30 M&A transactions (>A$8bn transaction value) and >$1.5bn in financial transactions. She led the transactional team in Telstra’s A$2.8bn sale of a 49% stake in its mobile towers business (Amplitel) to a Morrison/Future Fund consortium, the establishment of Titanium Ventures, and the sell-down of fibre assets and Telstra’s directories business (Sensis Pty Ltd). She won Australian In-House Lawyer of the Year at the 2018 Australasian Law Awards for her M&A work, including investments in areas such as quantum computing with the Australian Government.

Mary is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) and completed a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) at the University of Tasmania in 2005. She serves several directorships and is also TDI’s Executive representative on Telstra’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council.

Mary has two young children and is based in Melbourne, Australia.