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AT&T

COMPANY

Founded in 1885 as a subsidiary of Bell Telephone. Originally called the American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, it was split up by court decree in 1984. In 2005 the company was acquired by SBC, which then assumed AT&T's identity.

Official Website:
http://www.att.com/

Industry:
Communications

Ticker:
NYSE:T

Corporate headquarters:
San Antonio, TX

Sales:
$43.9B (2005)

Employees:
180,000

EXECUTIVES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Barry K. Allen
Business
c. 1949   EVP at Qwest, 2004-07
Robert E. Allen
Business
25-Jan-1935   CEO of AT&T, 1988-97
A. Gary Ames
Business
c. 1946   CEO of MediaOne, 1990-2000
Robert E. Angelica
Business
c. 1949   CEO of AT&T Investment Mgmt., 1999-2006
Cresencio S. Arcos
Diplomat
10-Nov-1943   US Ambassador to Honduras, 1990-93
C. Michael Armstrong
Business
18-Oct-1938   CEO of Comcast, 2002-04
Robert L. Bailey
Business
c. 1957   CEO of PMC-Sierra
Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor
3-Mar-1847 2-Aug-1922 Inventor of the telephone
Robert R. Bennett
Business
19-Apr-1958   CEO of Liberty Media, 1997-2005
Betsy J. Bernard
Business
16-May-1955   President of AT&T, 2002-03
J. A. Blanchard III
Business
c. 1943   CEO of eFunds, 2000-02
W. Frank Blount
Business
c. 1939   CEO of Telstra, 1992-99
Beth L. Bronner
Business
c. 1950   Mistral Equity Partners
James W. Cicconi
Attorney
1952   EVP Legislative Affairs at AT&T
Curtis J. Crawford
Business
c. 1947   President of XCEO
John T. Dickson
Business
c. 1946   CEO of Agere Systems, 2000-05
David W. Dorman
Business
1954   CEO of AT&T, 2002-06
Carly Fiorina
Business
6-Sep-1954   CEO of Hewlett Packard, 1999-2005
Gary D. Forsee
Business
1950   CEO of Sprint Nextel, 2005-07
Walter S. Gifford
Business
10-Jan-1885 7-May-1966 President of AT&T, 1925-48
Sam Ginn
Business
c. 1938   CEO of Airtouch Communications, 1993-99
Maureen E. Girkins
Business
c. 1955   CEO of Zondervan
Roger W. Hale
Business
c. 1943   CEO of LG&E Energy, 1990-2001
Isaiah Harris, Jr.
Business
c. 1952   Former BellSouth executive
Dan Hesse
Business
c. 1953   CEO of Sprint Nextel
David F. Houston
Government
17-Feb-1866 2-Sep-1940 US Secretary of Agriculture, 1913-20
David K. Hunt
Business
c. 1946   PlanSoft Corporation
Michael P. Huseby
Business
c. 1954   CFO of Cablevision
William H. Kurtz
Business
c. 1958   CFO of Novellus Systems
Ronald T. LeMay
Business
c. 1945   President and COO of Sprint, 1997-2003
H. Eugene Lockhart
Business
c. 1950   CEO of Mastercard International, 1994-97
Alex J. Mandl
Business
14-Dec-1943   President and COO of AT&T, 1994-96
William B. Marx, Jr.
Business
c. 1939   Former AT&T/Lucent EVP
Richard A. McGinn
Business
c. 1947   CEO of Lucent, 1996-2000
Gail J. McGovern
Business
1952   Professor of Marketing, HBS
John T. Montford
Politician
28-Jun-1943   Chancellor, Texas Tech University, 1996-2001
Roger H. Moore
Business
c. 1942   CEO of Illuminet Holdings, 1996-2001
Oscar Muñoz
Business
c. 1960   CFO of CSX
Joseph Nacchio
Business
22-Jun-1949   Qwest CEO, convicted of fraud
Charles H. Noski
Business
c. 1951   CFO of Northrop Grumman, 2003-05
Lars Nyberg
Business
1951   CEO of NCR, 1995-2003
Victor A. Pelson
Business
c. 1937   Former AT&T Executive
George K. Petty
Business
c. 1941   CEO of Telus, 1994-99
David J. Robino
Business
c. 1959   Vice Chairman of Gateway, 2000-01
Ray M. Robinson
Business
30-Nov-1947   Former AT&T executive
Patricia F. Russo
Business
1953   CEO of Alcatel-Lucent, 2006-08
Daniel Schulman
Business
c. 1958   CEO of Virgin Mobile USA
Stan Sigman
Business
1947   CEO of AT&T Mobility
Albert K. W. Siu
Business
?   Chief Learning Officer at AT&T, 1996-2002
Daniel E. Somers
Business
c. 1947   CEO of AT&T Broadband, 1999-2001
William R. Spivey
Business
c. 1947   Retired AT&T executive
Randall Stephenson
Business
22-Apr-1960   CEO of AT&T
Randall L. Tobias
Government
20-Mar-1942   AIDS Czar, USAID Administrator
Theodore Vail
Business
16-Jul-1845 16-Apr-1920 Founder of AT&T
Thomas C. Wajnert
Business
c. 1943   CEO of AT&T Capital, 1984-97
John R. Walter
Business
c. 1948   CEO of RR Donnelley, 1989-96
Ed Whitacre, Jr.
Business
4-Nov-1941   Chairman and CEO of General Motors, 2009-10
John D. Zeglis
Business
1947   CEO of AT&T Wireless, 1999-2004

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
William F. Aldinger
Business
1947   CEO of Household International, 1994-2003
Gil Amelio
Business
1-Mar-1943   CEO of Apple, 1996-97
Reuben V. Anderson
Attorney
16-Sep-1942   Partner, Phelps Dunbar
James H. Blanchard
Business
22-Aug-1941   CEO of Synovus Financial, 1971-2005
August Busch III
Business
6-Jun-1937   Anheuser-Busch CEO, 1975-2002
James P. Kelly
Business
c. 1944   CEO of UPS, 1997-2002
Charles F. Knight
Business
1936   CEO of Emerson Electric, 1973-2000
Jon C. Madonna
Business
c. 1943   CEO of KPMG, 1990-96
Lynn Martin
Politician
26-Dec-1939   US Secretary of Labor, 1991-93
John B. McCoy
Business
11-Jun-1943   CEO of Bank One, 1987-99
Mary S. Metz
Educator
c. 1937   President of Mills College, 1981-90
Toni Rembe
Attorney
c. 1938   Partner at Pillsbury Winthrop, 1971-2004
Joyce M. Roché
Business
c. 1948   CEO of Girls Incorporated
Randall Stephenson
Business
22-Apr-1960   CEO of AT&T
Laura D. Tyson
Economist
28-Jun-1947   Dean of London Business School
Patricia P. Upton
Business
c. 1940   CEO of Aromatique

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Robert E. Allen
Business
25-Jan-1935   CEO of AT&T, 1988-97
Vannevar Bush
Scientist
11-Mar-1890 30-Jun-1974 Pre-internet visionary
J. Michael Cook
Business
16-Sep-1942   CEO of Deloitte & Touche, 1989-99
John W. Davis
Attorney
13-Apr-1873 24-Mar-1955 US Solicitor General, 1913-18
Kenneth T. Derr
Business
4-Aug-1936   CEO of Chevron, 1989-99
David W. Dorman
Business
1954   CEO of AT&T, 2002-06
Walter S. Gifford
Business
10-Jan-1885 7-May-1966 President of AT&T, 1925-48
James A. Henderson
Business
c. 1934   CEO of Cummins, 1994-99
Frank C. Herringer
Business
c. 1943   CEO of Transamerica, 1991-99
Amos B. Hostetter, Jr.
Business
c. 1936   Billionaire, Continental Cablevision
David F. Houston
Government
17-Feb-1866 2-Sep-1940 US Secretary of Agriculture, 1913-20
Shirley A. Jackson
Physicist
5-Aug-1946   NRC Chairman, 1995-99
Juanita M. Kreps
Government
11-Jan-1921 5-Jul-2010 US Secretary of Commerce, 1977-79
Drew Lewis
Government
3-Nov-1931   US Secretary of Transportation, 1981-83
Donald F. McHenry
Diplomat
13-Oct-1936   US Ambassador to the UN, 1979-81
J. Irwin Miller
Business
26-May-1909 16-Aug-2004 Former CEO of Cummins Engine
Charles H. Noski
Business
c. 1951   CFO of Northrop Grumman, 2003-05
Victor A. Pelson
Business
c. 1937   Former AT&T Executive
Monroe Rathbone
Business
1-Mar-1900 2-Aug-1976 Formed Exxon
S. Donley Ritchey
Business
c. 1937   Former CEO of Lucky Stores
Henry B. Schacht
Business
16-Oct-1934   Former CEO of Cummins, Lucent
Louis A. Simpson
Business
c. 1937   Head of investments at GEICO
Michael I. Sovern
Educator
1-Dec-1931   President of Columbia University, 1980-93
Randall L. Tobias
Government
20-Mar-1942   AIDS Czar, USAID Administrator
Sanford I. Weill
Business
16-Mar-1933   CEO of Citigroup, 1998-2003
Ed Whitacre, Jr.
Business
4-Nov-1941   Chairman and CEO of General Motors, 2009-10
Tony L. White
Business
c. 1947   CEO of Applera

NOTABLE EMPLOYEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Bjarne Stroustrup
Computer Programmer
1950   Inventor of C++ programming language

EMPLOYMENT

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Robert L. Barnett
Business
c. 1940   EVP at Motorola, 2003-05
James Barr III
Business
c. 1939   President of TDS Telecom, 1990-2006
Bruce R. Bond
Business
c. 1947   CEO of PictureTel Corporation, 1998-99
Gregory Q. Brown
Business
c. 1960   CEO of Motorola
William F. Buehler
Business
c. 1949   Vice Chairman of Xerox, 1999-2001
John L. Clendenin
Business
c. 1933   CEO of Bellsouth, 1984-96
Peter A. Darbee
Business
?   CEO of PG&E, 2005-11
Nathaniel A. Davis
Business
c. 1954   President of XM Radio
Thomas P. DiNapoli
Politician
10-Feb-1954   Comptroller, State of New York
William T. Esrey
Business
c. 1940   CEO of Sprint, 1988-2003
Kim Gandy
Activist
25-Jan-1954   President of NOW
Judith R. Haberkorn
Business
c. 1947   Former Bell Atlantic executive
Patricia L. Higgins
Business
c. 1949   CEO of Switch and Data, 2000-04
Richard Jewell
Victim
17-Nov-1962 29-Aug-2007 Innocent security guard blamed for bombing
John F. Killian
Business
c. 1955   President, Verizon Business
Richard D. McCormick
Business
4-Jul-1940   CEO of US West, 1992-98
Philip J. Quigley
Business
c. 1943   CEO of Pacific Telesis, 1994-97
John Ramsey
Relative
7-Dec-1943   JonBenét's father
Gerard R. Roche
Business
c. 1931   Chairman of Heidrick & Struggles
Aviel Rubin
Computer Programmer
8-Nov-1967   Computer security expert at Johns Hopkins
Ivan G. Seidenberg
Business
10-Dec-1946   Chairman and CEO of Verizon
Kevin W. Sharer
Business
2-Mar-1948   CEO of Amgen
Allan R. Spies
Business
c. 1949   CFO of US West, 1997-2000
Dennis F. Strigl
Business
c. 1947   President & COO of Verizon
Doreen A. Toben
Business
1949   CFO of Verizon

EXTRANEOUS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Judy A. Black
Government
18-Mar-1949   Lobbyist
W. Edwards Deming
Mathematician
14-Oct-1900 20-Dec-1993 Quality Control guru
John Diebold
Author
8-Jun-1926 26-Dec-2005 Advocate of automation
Frank Luntz
Pundit
23-Feb-1962   Republican pollster, strategist
Paul W. MacAvoy
Economist
21-Apr-1934   Council of Economic Advisers, 1975-76
Michael Ovitz
Business
14-Dec-1946   President of Disney, 1995-97
Bill Paxon
Politician
29-Apr-1954   Congressman from New York, 1989-99
Mark Penn
Government
5-Jan-1954   Hillary Clinton 2008 campaign strategist
Ed Rollins
Government
19-Mar-1943   GOP political strategist
William F. Sharpe
Economist
16-Jun-1934   Capital asset pricing model
Alvin Toffler
Author
4-Oct-1928   Future Shock

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Charles Barkley
Basketball
20-Feb-1963   NBA player scored over 23,000 points
Carrot Top
Comic
25-Feb-1965   Prop-comic recycled for commercials
Calvert DeForest
Actor
23-Jul-1921 19-Mar-2007 Larry "Bud" Melman on Letterman
Blake Griffin
Basketball
16-Mar-1989   Los Angeles Clippers power forward
Bill Kurtis
Journalist
21-Sep-1940   Shoulder-shrugging host of American Justice
Meat Loaf
Musician
27-Sep-1947   Bat Out of Hell
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Comic
13-Jan-1961   Elaine on Seinfeld
Cliff Robertson
Actor
9-Sep-1923 10-Sep-2011 Uncle Ben in Spider-Man
Jerry Stiller
Actor
8-Jun-1927   Frank Costanza on Seinfeld
Ray Walston
Actor
2-Dec-1914 1-Jan-2001 My Favorite Martian
Billy Dee Williams
Actor
6-Apr-1937   Lando Calrissian, Colt-45 malt liquor pitchman
Tiger Woods
Golf
30-Dec-1975   Greatest living golfer


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