AT&T Wireless Names Marilyn Wasser Corporate Secretary and Associate General Counsel - Corporate.Business Editors REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2002 AT&T Wireless today named Marilyn Wasser as executive vice president, corporate secretary and associate general counsel - Corporate. She will join the company on September 3, 2002. As corporate secretary, Wasser will be responsible for all legal and administrative support for the Board of Directors, board committees, the annual shareholder meeting as well as for all corporate governance Corporate Governance The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law. activities. As associate general counsel - Corporate, Wasser will lead Legal support for the company's U.S. and international acquisitions, divestitures, ventures, partnerships, affiliations, and alliances. She will also provide direct Legal support for all compliance activity related to the company's finance, treasury and investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. functions. This includes compliance with both the Securities and Exchange Commission and New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. . Most recently, Wasser, 47, served as corporate secretary and vice president - Law for corporate matters at AT&T. She has been AT&T's corporate secretary for eight years, working closely with chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. C. Michael Armstrong C Michael Armstong (born 18 October, 1938, in Detroit, Michigan) is the former AT&T chairman and CEO, who tried to reestablish AT&T as an end-to-end carrier. Unfortunately, due to the dot.com bust and various other issues, he was forced to break the group up in 2001. and former chairman and CEO Robert E. Allen on regulatory, corporate governance and investor activities. She has played a key role in AT&T's major corporate restructurings, divestitures and acquisitions, including the $11 billion acquisition of McCaw Cellular in 1994, which formed the core of the AT&T Wireless company, the 1996 spin off of Lucent Technologies, the 1999 $48 billion merger with TCI (Trustworthy Computing Initiative) An umbrella term from Microsoft for its efforts to improve security in Windows. TCI was announced in 2002 after viruses such as Code Red and Nimda had succeeded in attacking numerous Windows computers. and the acquisition of MediaOne, and the 2000 announcement of the AT&T's restructuring into four separate companies. Most recently, she played a lead role in the sale of AT&T Broadband to Comcast as well as securing shareholder approval of creating AT&T Consumer as a tracking stock. "Marilyn is one of the nation's top corporate lawyers and an expert in matters of corporate governance," said John D. Zeglis John D. Zeglis (1947- )served as the President of AT&T and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AT&T Wireless. References
Wasser earned her A.B. degree in government from Smith College and received her law degree with honors from Case Western Reserve University School of Law Case Western Reserve University Franklin Thomas Backus School of Law is the law school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. It opened in 1892, making it one of the oldest law schools in the country. . She and her husband, Eric, live in New Jersey with their three children. About AT&T Wireless AT&T Wireless (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AWE) is the largest independently traded wireless carrier in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , following our split from AT&T on July 9, 2001. We operate one of the largest digital wireless networks in North America. With more than 19.95 million subscribers, and full-year 2001 revenues exceeding $13.6 billion, AT&T Wireless is committed to being among the first to deliver the next generation of wireless products and services. Today, we offer customers high-quality mobile wireless communications services, voice or data, to businesses or consumers, in the U.S. and internationally. AT&T Wireless Customer Advantage is our commitment to ensure that customers have the right equipment, the right calling plan, and the right customer services options -- today and tomorrow. For more information, please visit us at www.attwireless.com. |
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