Hugh Bradlow
Hugh S. Bradlow is Chief Technology Officer for Telstra and is responsible for investigating the future technologies that will impact Telstra’s business.
Prior to joining Telstra in September 1995, Professor Bradlow was Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Wollongong in Australia and Professor of Electrical Engineering (Digital Systems) at the University of Cape Town.
Professor Bradlow graduated in electrical engineering from the University of Cape Town in 1973 and received ta PhD for research in experimental nuclear physics from the University of Oxford.
He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, an Emeritus Professor of the University of Wollongong, a Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne, and a recipient of a Centenary Medal from the Commonwealth of Australia. He was jointly elected the 2009 Australian Telecommunications Ambassador of the Year.
His night-time job is providing technology support and tuition to his 3 children and his teacher-psychologist wife who treats all technology failures – including user error and finger trouble on her part - as his personal responsibility.
