Jules is an experienced senior national executive, Chair and non-executive director. Her experience spans over 30 years in Executive, Board and Legal roles.

As an ASX20 Executive, her experience includes leadership of Telstra's Wholesale Telecommunications Infrastructure Business supplying telco infrastructure to other carriers in a highly regulated market. More recently, as Telstra's Chief Sustainability Officer, Jules was responsible for setting strategy and targets on environment action. In this role she also had accountability for a very broad range of sustainability considerations from modern slavery to accessibility plans, ethical considerations of AI and strategies for supporting the most vulnerable in our community.

In her executive roles she has also been at the forefront of leading significant transformation - strategy formulation, setting the ambition and ensuring successful execution through rigorous program management.

Jules is currently the Chair of Tasmanian Legal Aid. She brings to that role the benefit of her own legal practitioner experience, having completed a BA LLB (Hons) at Tas Uni and subsequently working in both law firm and in-house legal roles. That legal experience complements subsequent roles focused on governance and risk management. She served for 9 years as on the Board and Audit & Risk Committee of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman .

Jules is a proud Tasmanian. Born, raised and educated in Tassie. She loves cold water swimming and sits as an Independent Director on the National Board of Surf Life Saving Australia.