Citizens Communications Announces the Election of New Chairman and Two Members to the Board of Directors.STAMFORD, Conn. -- Citizens Communications Citizens Communications is the parent company of Frontier Telephone, providing telephone and internet access in 24 states. The company headquarters are located at 3 High Ridge Park in Stamford, Connecticut. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CZN) announced today that at its regularly scheduled Board of Directors meeting held on Sept. 30, 2004, Rudy J. Graf was elected Chairman of the Board. At this meeting, Maggie Wilderotter  This biographical article or section is written like a resume.Please help [ improve this article] by revising it to be and encyclopedic. , who will become President and Chief Executive Officer of the company on Nov. 1, 2004, and Jerry Elliott, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the company, were newly elected to the Board, filling vacancies created by the Sept. 27, 2004 resignations of Leonard and Claire Tow. Most recently, Mr. Graf was interim Chief Executive Officer of Citizens Communications. He has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2000. He was Vice Chairman of the Board from 2001 to 2002 and 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. of the company from 1999 to 2002. Before that, he was Director, President and Chief Operating Officer of Centennial Cellular Corp. Ms. Wilderotter is joining Citizens from Microsoft Corp., where she was most recently Senior Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector, responsible for its government and education markets globally. Before that, she was Microsoft's Senior Vice President, Worldwide Business Strategy. Prior to joining Microsoft, Ms. Wilderotter was President and Chief Executive Officer of Wink A short control signal in telephony operations. It can be a single pulse, a brief interruption of a continuous tone, a change of bits or a change in polarity of the signal. For example, a momentary interruption (the wink) of a continuous, single-frequency tone is a signal that the Communications. Before that, she held senior positions with AT&T Wireless, McCaw Cellular, and U.S. Computer Services Data processing (timesharing, batch processing), software development and consulting services. See service bureau, SaaS and ASP. , Inc./Cable Data. From 1997 to 2002, she was a Director of Electric Lightwave, Inc. Mr. Elliott joined Citizens Communications in March 2002 as Chief Financial Officer. He was promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in December 2002, and to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in July 2004. Before joining the company, he was Managing Director of Morgan Morgan, American family of financiers and philanthropists. Junius Spencer Morgan, 1813–90, b. West Springfield, Mass., prospered at investment banking. Stanley's Communications Investment Banking Group from July 1998 to March 2002. Prior to that, he was a partner with the law firm of Shearman & Sterling. More information on Citizens can be found at www.czn.net. |
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