Christian Patten

Christian joined Airservices Australia in June 2022 as the Chief Strategy Execution Officer. Christian is an entrepreneurial senior executive with consistent success in establishing, building, growing and improving the performance of businesses, both as a senior advisor and as a business leader. His expertise spans corporate innovation, re-invention and growth, business strategy and execution, major transformation as well as corporate service and operational management along with extensive people leadership. His key strengths include creating the strategic vision, strategic partner to board members and executive, delivering business value through a strong results focus, and care for people, their development and culture.

Christian’s roles have included Senior and Executive positions across industries and businesses with roles covering operational responsibilities, strategic and transformation programs, expansion via joint venture as well as large pre & post M&A and integration. Christian’s most recent executive roles have been leading organization wide transformation and integration agendas for organizations with revenues of $1.6bn and assets of $20bn.

His roles have been in major Australian and global organisations including Westpac, SUNCORP, Queensland Health, UnitingCare Qld, BRIGHTsuper and EY, where he led major complex transformation and merger integration projects focusing on delivering results within tight timeframes.

Christian holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Queensland.