• AT&T INC Key Executives

  • Total Compensation: $ 21.98 M
    RANDALL L. STEPHENSON, age 47, is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of AT&T Inc. and has served in this capacity since June 2007. Before being named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Stephenson served as Chief Operating Officer of AT&T Inc. since April 2004. He was Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of AT&T Inc. from August 2001 through May 2004. Prior to becoming Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Stephenson held a variety of high-level finance and marketing positions with AT&T or its subsidiaries since 1996. He first joined AT&T through its subsidiary, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, in 1982. He is the Chairman of the Executive Committee. He has been a Director of AT&T since June 2005. Mr. Stephenson is a Director of Emerson Electric Co.
    Total Compensation: $ 8.46 M
    Richard G. Lindner, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
    Wayne Watts - General Counsel
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    Wayne Watts, Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel.
    Catherine M. Coughlin - Senior Executive VP
    Total Compensation: $ —
    Catherine M. Coughlin, Senior Executive Vice President and Global Marketing Officer.
    Ronald E. Spears - President, Divisional
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    Ronald E. Spears, Group President, Global Business Services.
    William A. Blase, Jr. - Senior Executive VP, Divisional
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    William A. Blase Jr., Senior Executive Vice President - Human Resources.
    Ralph de la Vega - CEO, Subsidiary/President, Subsidiary
    Total Compensation: $ 12.39 M
    Ralph de la Vega, President and Chief Executive Officer, AT&T Mobility.
    James W. Cicconi - Divisional Senior Executive VP
    Total Compensation: $ —
    James W. Cicconi, Senior Executive Vice President, External and Legislative Affairs.
    John T. Stankey - President, Divisional
    Total Compensation: $ 8.08 M
    Mr. Stankey became an officer in January 2000. Prior to that, he held responsible managerial positions with SBC. Executive officers are not appointed to a fixed term of office.
    Forrest E. Miller - President, Divisional
    Total Compensation: $ 8.46 M
    Forrest E. Miller, group president-external affairs and planning, is responsible for external affairs policy, federal affairs, and corporate planning. He oversees developing the company's federal and state regulatory and legislative policy agenda, implementing the company's federal regulatory and legislative plans, and is responsible for developing SBC's corporate strategy. He was appointed to his current position in May 2004. Previously he served as group president-corporate planning, where he was responsible for strategic planning across the SBC enterprise and served as head of Sterling Commerce, SBC's e-commerce software subsidiary. Prior to that he served as president and chief executive officer of SBC Southwestern Bell. He also previously served as president and CEO SBC SNET. From July 1997 until his appointment to head SNET in October 1999, Miller served as president and chief executive officer of SBC Directory Operations, the directory publishing subsidiary of SBC Communications Inc. At the time Pacific Telesis was acquired by SBC in 1997, Miller was President of Pacific Bell Directory. Miller joined Pacific Telesis Group's finance organization in 1984 and held various positions in operations, finance, planning and corporate development there. Before joining Pacific Telesis, Miller was a senior associate at Marakon Associates, a management consulting firm. Prior to that, Miller spent four years with the public accounting firm, Coopers & Lybrand. He is a certified public accountant. Miller holds a bachelor of science degree in accounting from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
    Total Compensation: $ —
    REUBEN V. ANDERSON, age 65, is a senior partner in the law firm of Phelps Dunbar, LLP in Jackson, Mississippi, where he has served as a partner since 1991. He served as a Mississippi Supreme Court Justice from 1985 to 1990. Mr. Anderson was elected a Director of AT&T in December 2006. He served as a Director of BellSouth Corporation from 1994 until the company was acquired by AT&T in 2006. He is a member of the Finance/Pension Committee and the Public Policy and Environmental Affairs Committee. Mr. Anderson is a Director of The Kroger Co. and Trustmark Corporation.
    John B. McCoy - Director
    Total Compensation: $ —
    JOHN B. MCCOY, age 64, was Chairman from November 1999 and Chief Executive Officer from October 1998 of Bank One Corporation (commercial and consumer bank based in Chicago, Illinois) until his retirement in December 1999, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of its predecessor, Banc One Corporation, from 1987 to 1998. Mr. McCoy has been a Director of AT&T since October 1999. He served as a Director of Ameritech Corporation from 1991 until the company was acquired by AT&T in 1999. He is the Chairman of the Finance/Pension Committee and a member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and the Executive Committee. He is a Director of Cardinal Health, Inc.; ChoicePoint Inc.; and Onex Corporation.
    James P. Kelly - Director
    Total Compensation: $ —
    JAMES P. KELLY, age 64, was Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of United Parcel Service, Inc. (a global express carrier and package distribution logistics company in Atlanta, Georgia) from 1997 until his retirement in 2002. Mr. Kelly was elected a Director of AT&T in December 2006. He served as a Director of BellSouth Corporation from 2000 until the company was acquired by AT&T in 2006. He is a member of the Audit Committee and the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee. Mr. Kelly is a Director of Dana Corporation and United Parcel Service, Inc.
    Total Compensation: $ —
    LAURA D'ANDREA TYSON, age 60, is Professor of Business Administration and Economics at the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, and has served in this capacity since January 2007. She was Dean of London Business School, London, England, from January 2002 until December 2006. Dr. Tyson was Dean of the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley from July 1998 to December 2001. Dr. Tyson served as Professor of Economics and Business Administration at the University of California at Berkeley from 1997 to 1998. She served as National Economic Adviser to the President of the United States from 1995 to 1996 and as Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 1993 to 1995. Dr. Tyson has been a Director of AT&T since October 1999. She served as a Director of Ameritech Corporation from 1997 until the company was acquired by AT&T in 1999. She is a member of the Corporate Development Committee and the Finance/Pension Committee. Dr. Tyson is a Director of Eastman Kodak Company and Morgan Stanley.
    Total Compensation: $ —
    WILLIAM F. ALDINGER III, age 60, is President and Chief Executive Officer of Capmark Financial Group Inc. (a commercial real estate finance company headquartered in San Mateo, California) and has served in this capacity since June 2006. Mr. Aldinger was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HSBC North America Holdings Inc. (a financial services company in Prospect Heights, Illinois) from January 2004 until April 2005. He also served as Chairman from 1996 and Chief Executive Officer from 1994 of HSBC Finance Corporation (formerly Household International, Inc.) until April 2005. Mr. Aldinger has been a Director of AT&T since November 2005. He served as a Director of AT&T Corp. from 2003 until the company was acquired by AT&T Inc. (then known as SBC Communications Inc.) in 2005. Mr. Aldinger is a member of the Audit Committee and the Human Resources Committee. He is a Director of Capmark Financial Group Inc.; Illinois Tool Works Inc.; KKR Financial Corp.; and Charles Schwab Corporation.
    Dr. Mary S. Metz - Director
    Total Compensation: $ —
    MARY S. METZ, age 70, is Chair Emerita of the Board of Trustees of American Conservatory Theater (a nonprofit nationally renowned theater and an accredited conservatory in San Francisco, California), where she served as Chair of the Board of Trustees from November 2004 until June 2007. Dr. Metz is also President Emerita of Mills College. She was President of S. H. Cowell Foundation in San Francisco, California, from January 1999 until her retirement in March 2005, and was Dean of the University Extension of the University of California at Berkeley from 1991 until 1998. Dr. Metz has been a Director of AT&T since April 1997. She served as a Director of Pacific Telesis Group from 1986 until the company was acquired by AT&T in 1997. She is a member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and the Public Policy and Environmental Affairs Committee. Dr. Metz is a Director of Longs Drug Stores Corporation; Pacific Gas and Electric Company; and UnionBanCal Corporation.
    Jon C. Madonna - Director
    Total Compensation: $ —
    JON C. MADONNA, age 64, was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of KPMG (an international accounting and consulting firm in New York, New York) from 1990 until his retirement in 1996. He was with KPMG for 28 years where he held numerous senior leadership positions throughout his career. Subsequent to his retirement from KPMG, Mr. Madonna served as Vice Chairman of Travelers Group, Inc. from 1997 to 1998 and President and Chief Executive Officer of Carlson Wagonlit Corporate Travel, Inc. from 1999 to 2000. He was Chief Executive Officer of DigitalThink, Inc. from 2001 to 2002 and was Chairman of DigitalThink, Inc. from April 2002 to May 2004. Mr. Madonna has been a Director of AT&T since November 2005. He served as a Director of AT&T Corp. from 2002 until the company was acquired by AT&T Inc. (then known as SBC Communications Inc.) in 2005. Mr. Madonna is the Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Corporate Development Committee and the Executive Committee. He is a Director of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.; Jazz Technologies, Inc.; and Tidewater Inc.
    Total Compensation: $ —
    AUGUST A. BUSCH III, age 70, was Chairman of the Board of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. (a brewing, packaging, and family entertainment holding company in St. Louis, Missouri) from 1977 until his retirement in December 2006. Mr. Busch also served as Chief Executive Officer of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. from 1975 until June 2002. Mr. Busch has been a Director of AT&T since October 1983. He served as a Director of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company from 1980 to 1983. He is the Chairman of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and a member of the Corporate Development Committee and the Executive Committee. Mr. Busch is a Director of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.; Emerson Electric Co.; and Grupo Modelo, S.A. de C.V.
    Total Compensation: $ —
    GILBERT F. AMELIO, age 65, who began his career at Bell Labs, is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jazz Technologies, Inc. (formerly Acquicor Technology Inc.) and has served in this capacity since August 2005. Jazz Technologies is the parent company of Jazz Semiconductor, Inc., an independent semiconductor wafer foundry headquartered in Newport Beach, California. He has also been Senior Partner of Sienna Ventures (a privately-held venture capital firm in Sausalito, California) since April 2001. Dr. Amelio was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Beneventure Capital, LLC (a full-service venture capital firm in San Francisco, California) from 1999 to 2005 and was Principal of Aircraft Ventures, LLC (a consulting firm in Newport Beach, California) from April 1997 to December 2004. In 2003, AmTech, LLC (a high technology investments and consulting services firm), where Dr. Amelio served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1999 to April 2004, declared bankruptcy. Dr. Amelio was elected a Director of AT&T in February 2001 and had previously served as an Advisory Director of AT&T from April 1997 to February 2001. He served as a Director of Pacific Telesis Group from 1995 until the company was acquired by AT&T in 1997. He is the Chairman of the Human Resources Committee and a member of the Audit Committee and the Executive Committee. Dr. Amelio is a Director of Jazz Technologies, Inc.
    Joyce M. Roche - Director
    Total Compensation: $ —
    JOYCE M. ROCHE, age 60, is President and Chief Executive Officer of Girls Incorporated (a national nonprofit research, education, and advocacy organization in New York, New York) and has served in this capacity since September 2000. Ms. Roche was an independent marketing consultant from 1998 to 2000. She was President and Chief Operating Officer of Carson, Inc. from 1996 to 1998, and Executive Vice President of Global Marketing of Carson, Inc. from 1995 to 1996. Ms. Roche has been a Director of AT&T since October 1998. She served as a Director of Southern New England Telecommunications Corporation from 1997 until the company was acquired by AT&T in 1998. She is a member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and the Public Policy and Environmental Affairs Committee. She is a Director of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.; Macy's, Inc.; and Tupperware Corporation.
    Lynn M. Martin - Director
    Total Compensation: $ —
    LYNN M. MARTIN, age 68, is President of The Martin Hall Group, LLC (a human resources consulting firm in Chicago, Illinois) and has served in this capacity since January 2005. Ms. Martin was Chair of the Council for the Advancement of Women and Advisor to the firm of Deloitte & Touche LLP (an auditing and management consulting services firm in Chicago, Illinois) from 1993 until September 2005. She served as U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1991 to 1993 and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois from 1981 to 1991. Ms. Martin has been a Director of AT&T since October 1999. She served as a Director of Ameritech Corporation from 1993 until the company was acquired by AT&T in 1999. Ms. Martin is a member of the Finance/Pension Committee and the Public Policy and Environmental Affairs Committee. She is a Director of Constellation Energy Group, Inc.; certain Dreyfus Funds; The Procter & Gamble Company; and Ryder System, Inc.
    Total Compensation: $ —
    PATRICIA P. UPTON, age 69, is President and Chief Executive Officer of Aromatique, Inc. (manufacturer and wholesaler of decorative fragrances in Heber Springs, Arkansas) and has served in this capacity since 1982. Ms. Upton has been a Director of AT&T since June 1993. She is a member of the Human Resources Committee and the Public Policy and Environmental Affairs Committee.
    Total Compensation: $ —
    JAMES H. BLANCHARD, age 66, was Chairman of the Board of Synovus Financial Corp. (a diversified financial services holding company in Columbus, Georgia) and served in this capacity from July 2005 to October 2006. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Synovus Financial Corp. from January 1971 to July 2005. Mr. Blanchard was elected a Director of AT&T in December 2006. He served as a Director of BellSouth Corporation from 1994 until the company was acquired by AT&T in 2006. He is a member of the Corporate Development Committee and the Human Resources Committee. Mr. Blanchard is a Director of Synovus Financial Corp. and Total System Services, Inc.
    Karen E. Jennings - Divisional Senior Executive VP
    Total Compensation: $ —
    As senior executive vice president-human resources and communications for SBC Communications Inc., Karen Jennings is responsible for all aspects of human resources, executive support, labor relations, and professional and technical programs, as well as for SBC advertising, employee and financial communications and media relations. She also is a member of the board of the SBC Foundation, the philanthropic entity of SBC Communications Inc. Jennings joined Southwestern Bell in 1972 and held many positions in the comptrollers, customer services and revenues and public affairs departments in Arkansas. From 1995 to 1996, Jennings served as chairman of SBC Asset Management, Inc. (AMI) and as an associate vice president-Chairman's Office for SBC Communications. Jennings was appointed president for Southwestern Bell in Missouri in 1996. In that role, she was responsible for all regulatory, legislative and external affairs activities for Southwestern Bell in Missouri. In 1997, she became vice president and general manager-operator services for SBC Telecommunications, Inc. and was responsible for operator services and directory white pages for the seven-state territory of Southwestern Bell Telephone, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell. She was named senior vice president-human resources in 1998 and was appointed senior executive vice president-human resources in 1999. She assumed her current position in July 2002. A native of Michigan, Jennings received her bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and also completed executive development programs at Northeastern University in Boston and at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
    James S. Kahan - Divisional Senior Executive VP
    Total Compensation: $ —
    As senior executive vice president-Corporate Development, Jim Kahan is responsible for all domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and venture capital investments for SBC Communications Inc. and its subsidiaries. In 1967, Kahan began his telecommunications career as an engineer with Western Electric in St. Louis and then transferred to Bell Laboratories in Piscataway, N.J., in 1972; South Central Bell in Birmingham, Ala., in 1975; and AT&T in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, in 1981. He joined Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in 1983. Kahan moved to SBC's corporate development organization in 1984, where he played an important role in the acquisition of Metromedia's paging and cellular markets, as well as in the acquisition of other cellular properties. In 1988, Kahan became managing director-Corporate Development. In this position, he oversaw SBC's mergers and acquisitions and international business development activity, including the company's participation in a consortium, which purchased the controlling interest in Teléfonos de México (Telmex) in 1990. Kahan was appointed senior vice president-Corporate Development and became an officer of SBC in 1992. From 1993 through 1995, he assumed the additional responsibilities of strategic planning and marketing and development of long-term business growth strategies. He was appointed to his current position in October 1999. A Missouri native, Kahan received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1969 and a master's degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina in 1972.
    Total Compensation: $ 78.35 M
    Total Compensation: $ 14.36 M
    James W. Callaway - Divisional Senior Executive VP
    Total Compensation: $ —
    James W. Callaway, group president, is responsible for SBC's international operations and directory operations. Before assuming his current position in September 2000, he served as group president-SBC Services, where he was responsible for special markets, procurement, all FCC merger compliance agreements and implementation of long distance performance measures for SBC Communications Inc. Callaway began his career with Southwestern Bell Telephone (SWBT) in 1968. He held numerous positions with SWBT in Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma, as well as assignments with AT&T in New York and New Jersey before divestiture. He previously served as president of SWBT's Kansas Division and president and chief executive officer of SBC's equipment subsidiary, Southwestern Bell Telecom and was the founding president and chief operating officer of Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems. In addition, he was vice president-marketing for SWBT in St. Louis and vice president-general manager for Southwestern Bell's South Texas market area. Callaway was appointed senior vice president-strategic planning for SBC Communications Inc. in 1996, and in 1997, he became president-California. In that role, he was in charge of all regulatory, legislative, governmental, and external affairs activities for Pacific Telesis in California and Nevada. A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Callaway earned a degree in business administration from Arkansas State University in 1968.
    Rayford Wilkins, Jr. - Divisional President
    Total Compensation: $ —
    Ray Wilkins, group president-SBC marketing and sales, is responsible for all marketing, including product development and sales support, as well as business communications services and consumer markets for the SBC family of companies. He was appointed to his current position in May 2002. Previously, he served as president and CEO of SBC Pacific Bell, where he was responsible for all business and consumer market sales and customer service, as well as network services and external affairs in California and Nevada, a position he assumed in September 2000. Before serving as president and CEO of SBC Pacific Bell, he served as president-SBC Business Communications Services providing complete telecommunications and datacom solutions to more than 3 million small-, medium- and large-business customers nationwide. Wilkins began his career as a commercial assistant with Southwestern Bell Telephone in Houston in 1974. He held a variety of customer services, marketing and comptroller assignments in Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and St. Louis before being named regional president for the company's Kansas/Western Missouri market area. He became president of Pacific Bell's Business Communications Services in 1997 and was responsible for all business market sales, customer service and financial performance, as well as for network integration and information services. He was named president and CEO of Southwestern Bell Telephone in 1999 and was responsible for providing full-service communications products and services throughout the region. Wilkins earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Texas in Austin in 1974. He attended the University of Pittsburgh's Management Program for Executives in October 1987.
    Total Compensation: $ 36.93 M