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Martijn Blanken is the Group Managing Director and Chief Customer Officer of Global Enterprise and Services, a new $5.5 billion revenue business unit operating as a global scale, industry-based telecommunications services and solutions business. Martijn is responsible for Telstra's relationship with and sales activities to multinational corporations and international carriers across Asia, EMEA and the Americas including 1,500 large business, enterprise and government customers in Australia.

Martijn has extensive experience across sales, product management, service delivery and service management and is also a member of the Executive Committee of Telstra Corporation.

Prior to his current role, since October 2012 Martijn was MD, Telstra Global. Earlier Martijn served as Chief Operating Officer for Telstra Global and as Executive Director for Network & Application Services where he repositioned Telstra for growth in the managed services market.

Prior to joining Telstra, Martijn was the GM and VP, Asia Pacific and Japan for Openwave Systems. He has also held several senior positions at KPN Royal Dutch Telecom, most recently as Senior VP and MD of the Managed Services and Outsourcing Division, and held non-executive directorships for several KPN Royal Dutch Telecom joint ventures.

Martijn holds a MBA from the University of Groningen (Netherlands).