Internode appoints first CIO

By Alex Serpo, ZDNet.com.au
02 December 2008 04:21 PM
Tags: internode, cio, mike damms, isp, appoint

ISP Internode has appointed it's first chief information officer: Mike Damms, an industry veteran with previous experience at companies including Vodafone UK, Avaya, Lucent and Motorola.

The ISP announced in August that it planned to appoint its first CIO as part of a management restructure that saw Patrick Tapper appointed CEO, working alongside managing director Simon Hackett.

New Internode CIO Mike Damms.

According to a statement from Internode, Damms said his role as CIO was to break down silos between technology areas by applying standardisation across product lines. "I plan to put in place a structure that gives people more predictable outcomes for both their external and internal customers," he said.

"As the company has grown, [Internode's staff] are working on so many different initiatives that priorities can be a challenge," Damms said. Formerly a resident of the UK, Damms also spent 15 years serving in the Royal Navy.

Internode also recently signed a deal with Telstra to give the company access to 900 ADSL 2+ equipped DSLAMs, doubling the company's geographic reach.

Advertisement

Talkback 1 comments

    Do we smell a mobile company in the ether? Anonymous -- 27/04/09

    New CIO with lots of telco mobile experience, the deal with Optus.

    Maybe there will be a different kind of iPhone coming out?

Latest Videos

Blogs

  • Darren Greenwood Telecom NZ savings damage prospects
    If Telecom NZ wants to have any of the NZ$1.5 billion the government intends to spend on its new broadband network, it had better think long and hard before offshoring 1500 jobs.
  • Array iiNet: The whys and what nows
    Last week the Federal Court ruled that internet service providers are not responsible for copyright violation by their customers. This is an important decision not just for iiNet, which spent around $4 million defending the case, but for all ISPs in Australia and, indeed, globally.
  • Array Govt, hurry up with releasing data
    A programmer scraped data from the My School website to make some really cool heat maps showing regions of smart schools — no thanks to the government, which didn't supply the data in any useful kind of format.
  • More blogs »

Tags

Back to top

Featured