AT&T names Antieri to lead strategy in Pacific States.announced that Michael G. Antieri is appointed to the newly created position of president, Pacific States The Pacific States form one of the nine geographic divisions within the United States that are officially recognized by that country's census bureau. There are five states in this division — Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington — and, as its name . Antieri assumes overall responsibility for AT&T operations in California, Hawaii and Nevada. AT&T also announced the appointments of three other region executives today: Lois Hedg-peth is named vice president, Pacific States; Lee Blitch becomes region vice president -- Market Development; and Robert L. Schauer becomes public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most vice president, Pacific and Western States. All will be based in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , AT&T's Pacific Region headquarters. "As we proceed with the restructuring of AT&T which we announced last fall, the new AT&T will broaden the range of services we provide our customers beyond long distance to include local, wireless, entertainment, and on-line services, such as electronic shopping and information," Antieri said. "As well, Internet-related services will become an important part of our offerings. "With President Clinton set today to sign the landmark telecommunications bill that ends the protected status of local telephone monopolies, let me add that AT&T will fight hard, at both the state and federal levels, for rules that will make it commercially viable to give our customers a choice for local service," Antieri said. "Clearly, customers want that choice for all their communications needs -- local, long distance, wireless, entertainment, and on-line services." Antieri has held a variety of management positions with AT&T during the past 18 years, most recently as director of Global Communications Services, where he was responsible for business planning, marketing, product management, and overall profitability for long distance consumer services Consumer Services refers to the formulation, deformulation, technical consulting and testing of most consumer products, such as food, herbs, beverages, vitamins, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, hair products, household cleaners, [paints, plastics, metals, waxes, coatings, minerals, worldwide. Prior to that assignment, Antieri was appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. for Unitel in 1993 when AT&T acquired interest in the Canadian 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. . Antieri was selected for the Sloan Fellowship The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". Fellowships were initially awarded in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Program in 1991 and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, , where he earned a Master of Science degree. Hedg-peth, a California native, has held a number of marketing and operations positions with AT&T in New Jersey, Arizona and California since joining the company in 1978. Blitch, a 31-year veteran of AT&T, most recently served as region vice president -- Southwest states in Dallas, where he provided leadership for the AT&T consumer long distance business. Schauer's assignments during the past 26 years with AT&T have included positions in public relations, government affairs, advertising, and commercial operations. Most recently he served as vice president of corporate and consumer affairs for AT&T Universal Card Services The software support for PC Cards. PC Card applications talk to Card Services. See PC Card. in Florida. CONTACT: AT&T Kathi Oram, 415/442-2223 (office) 415/721-7124 (home) or Diane Schwilling, 213/239-7658 (office) 818/541-1105 (home) |
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