Mr David Pitt

Vice President, Finance & Chief Financial Officer, Monash University

David Pitt oversees the financial management, funding and capital works programs of Monash world-wide. He previously held several senior positions at Telstra, most recently as Director of strategic projects, where he was responsible for strategic analysis, mergers and acquisitions, business restructuring and evaluating major investment proposals. During his time at Telstra, he developed and implemented the company's new superannuation scheme and developed the strategy for implementing the early rollout of Telstra's Pay TV cable network. His experience as a company director includes the boards of various high technology and communications organisations, international start-ups and joint ventures.

He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a member of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia and has a first class honours science degree majoring in pure mathematics and statistics, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne and an MBA from RMIT.