The new team includes:

A general manager of sales and marketing is also yet to be filled.

The demerger of Chorus from Telecom will create a national fixed-line access network infrastructure operator. The demerger will also allow Chorus to participate under the NZ government's Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) initiative.

The news of the management team selection follows just a day after Chorus kicked off construction of the UFB initiative following its contract win in May to deploy fibre in 24 of the 33 candidate areas.

The telco was by the company overseeing the rollout of the New Zealand National Broadband Network (NBN) equivalent, Crown Fibre Holdings (CFH), to following .