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Maggie
Wilderotter
Director
Tribune Company
Maggie Wilderotter is chairman and CEO of
Citizens Communications, a full-service communications provider
and the second-largest local exchange telephone company in
the country. She has 30 years of experience in telephone,
wireless, cable television, computers and interactive media.
Previously, Wilderotter served as senior vice president of
the worldwide public sector division at Microsoft Corporation,
where she was responsible for strengthening customer and
partner outreach in the government and education markets,
as well as working across Microsoft’s business divisions
to develop and coordinate forward-looking strategies.
Prior to Microsoft, Wilderotter
was president and CEO of Wink Communications Inc., executive
vice president of national operations for AT&T Wireless
Services and chief executive officer of AT&T’s
Aviation Communications Division. She also served as senior
vice president of McCaw Cellular Communications and was a
regional president managing the company’s California,
Nevada, and Hawaii regions.
Wilderotter has received national
recognition for her contributions to the communications industry.
She was twice honored with the Vanguard Award for Distinguished
Leadership awarded by the National Cable Television Association,
the 1999 Outstanding Mentor Award from the Women in Cable
and Telecommunications Foundation and its Top 10 Women in
Cable & Telecommunications
Award.
Wilderotter serves on the board of directors
of Yahoo! and Xerox Corporation, and on the boards of several
non-profit organizations. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics
and business administration from the College of the Holy
Cross.
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