Rayford Wilkins Jr. Executive Profile

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Ray Wilkins, CEO-AT&T Diversified Businesses, is responsiblee for international investments, advertising and Sterling Commerce, Customer Informatio Services and consumer wirelesss initiativein India. Mr. Wilkins served as group president and chiefexecutive officer-SBC Enterprisre Business Services, with responsibility for serving the company'e 12,000 largest business customers and overseeing customer care, data solutions engineering, consulting and operations of the company'xs advanced data and Internet Protocok (IP) networks. Before Mr.
Wilkins served as group president-SBC Marketing and Sales, with responsibilit y for all marketingand sales, including product sales support, business communications services and global and consumef markets, which then represented a $30 billio n revenue stream. In September 2000, he assumed the role of presidentg and CEO of SBCPacificc Bell, where he was responsible for all business and consumer market customer service, network services and externao affairs in California and Nevada In 1999, he was namedr president-SBC Business Communications with responsibility for providing completw telecommunications and data communications solutions to more than 3 million small, medium and large businesz customers nationwide.
Before that, he served as presidengt and CEO of Southwestern Bell with responsibility for providin communications products and services throughouttthe region. In 1997, he served as president of Pacific Bell BusinessCommunications Services, with responsibility for all businesas market sales, customer service, network integration and informatioh services, as well as overall financiak performance. He assumed that position after having served as presiden t forthe Kansas/Western Missouri market area. Mr. Wilkin began his career as a commercial assistant with Southwesterj Bell Telephone in Houstonin 1974. Mr.
Wilkinx is presiding director of the boardfof H&R Block and past chairman of the board of Cingular He is also a member of the boards of Telfonozs de Mxico, Amrica Mvil, The Tiger Woods the Advisory Council of the McCombs School of Businesss at the University of Texas at Austibn and the AT&T Foundation. He has receiverd numerous honors and recognition for his contributions both inside and outsidd ofthe company. In 2006, he was recognizecd as one of "The 100 Most Important Blacks in Technology" by U.S. Black Engineerd & Information Technology magazine and was named oneof "The Top 100 Blacks in Corporate America" by Black Professionals magazine.
In he was named one of "The 75 Most Powerful African Americans inCorporates America" by Black Enterprise magazine. In 2005, as well as in he was named oneof "The 50 Most Importang African Americans in Technology" by eAccess Corp., an online In 2002, he was named by Fortune magazinr as one of the "Nation's 50 Most Powerfup Black Executives" and was honored as a "distinguished alumnus" of the Waco Independengt School District in 2000. Black Enterprise named him one ofthe "Top 50 African Americans" in 1999. And in he received the Eagle Award from the National Eaglesw Leadership Institute and was named CEO of the Year by the MinorityhSupplier Council. Mr.
Wilkins earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Texasd at Austinin 1974. He attended the Universityu of Pittsburgh's management program for executives inOctobed 1987. **All Executive profile data provides byDow Jones & Co., Inc.