Citizens Communications Appoints Peter B. Hayes Senior Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Business Development.STAMFORD,Conn. -- Citizens Communications (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CZN) today announced that Peter B. "Pete" Hayes will join the company on Feb. 1, 2005, as Senior Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Business Development. Mr. Hayes will be a member of the company's Senior Leadership Team and report to Maggie Wilderotter, Citizens' President and Chief Executive Officer. "Pete brings great skills in strategic selling, branding and partnership management to Citizens," said Ms. Wilderotter. "I am confident that that he will put our customers first, will be innovative in our product positioning, and will assure that Citizens really differentiates itself in the marketplace. He is a great addition to our team." Most recently, Mr. Hayes was Microsoft's Vice President, Public Sector, Europe, Middle East and Africa, leading sales, services, marketing, programs, government relations and technical teams. Prior to that, he was General Manager, Microsoft US Government, Washington, DC, responsible for Microsoft's US federal and state and local customers. Prior to this, he was Director, WorldWide Enterprise Field Strategy, Director, Field and Customer Relations, and District Manager, Southeast District, of Microsoft North America. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1991, Mr. Hayes worked for IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) for 12 years, holding various sales, technical and management positions. He earned a Bachelor of Science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies degree with a major in Finance from the University of South Alabama The University of South Alabama is a public, doctoral-level university in Mobile, Alabama, USA. It was created by the Alabama Legislature in 1963, and replaced existing extension programs operated in Mobile by the University of Alabama. . About Citizens Communications Citizens Communications is the seventh-largest local exchange company in the United States. It offers communications services under the "Frontier" brand in 23 states and a variety of integrated telecommunications products through its CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) An organization offering local telephone service that is not one of the traditional telephone companies. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed competition to the incumbent telcos (ILECs), enabling new companies (CLECs) , Electric Lightwave, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . Its conferencing subsidiary, Citizens Conferencing, is based in Chicago, Ill. |
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