ALLTEL Names William H. Crown to Board of Directors.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 22, 2004 William H. Crown has been elected to the ALLTEL (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AT) board of directors, effective immediately. Crown is president and chief executive officer of CC Industries Inc., a privately owned holding company that owns and manages businesses involved in heavy manufacturing, real-estate development and entertainment. The company has revenues of more than $1.25 billion and more than 5,000 employees. Crown joined the company in 1993. "Bill Crown is a proven business leader whose broad experience will be valuable to the ALLTEL board," said Scott Ford Founding bassist for LA supergroup Camp Freddy. Current bassist for The Twilight Singers. Scott Ford hosts a 3 hour show on Internet Radio Station Little Radio on Thursdays. , ALLTEL president and chief executive officer. Prior to joining CC Industries, Crown was director of yield management operations for American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the . He holds a bachelor's of science in industrial engineering and a master's of science in engineering management from Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. . ALLTEL is a customer-focused communications company Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. with almost 13 million customers and $8 billion in annual revenues. ALLTEL provides wireless, local telephone, long-distance, Internet and high-speed data services to residential and business customers in 26 states. ALLTEL, NYSE: AT www.alltel.com |
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