Maggie Wilderotter

Background

Wilderotter, Maggie was born on February 9, 1955 in Neptune, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of Denis James and Constance Rosemary (Shields) Sullivan.

Education

Bachelor in Economics and Business Administration, College Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1977.

Career

She currently serves as a director of a number of other well-known companies, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DreamWorks Animation, Costco Wholesale Corporation, Juno Therapeutics, Inc., and Chobani Yogurt. She frequently appears in Fortune's annual survey of the Fifty Most Powerful Women in Business, and a 2015 CNN report identified her as the best-performing female CEO in the S&P 500 for the period March 1, 2014 to March 1, 2015. Wilderotter is active in a number of business and non-profit organizations including the Business Roundtable, WOMEN in America, Catalyst and the Committee for Economic Development.

She earned her undergraduate degree in 1977 from College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, in economics and business administration. Wilderotter is the younger sister of Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer of Campbell Soup Company. After college, Wilderotter joined CableData, an early business process outsourcing company for the cable industry, where she held numerous roles of increasing responsibility during her 12-year tenure there.

She left CableData in 1989 to join McCaw Cellular as president of the California-Nevada-Hawaii region and as a corporate senior vice president. Wilderotter remained with AT&T Wireless after it acquired McCaw, as executive vice president of operations and also served as chief executive of Claircom, AT&T's aviation communications subsidiary. In 1997, Wilderotter left AT&T to become chief executive officer of Wink Communications, which was acquired by Liberty Media in 2002.

Wilderotter then joined Microsoft, and served as senior vice president of its worldwide public sector operations from 2002 until 2004. In 2004, Wilderotter became President and Chief Executive Officer of Frontier, which was then known as Citizens Communications. She was named chairman of the company in 2006.

On February 5, 2015, Frontier announced that it intends to acquire Verizon's wireline operations in California, Florida and Texas for $10.5 billion, pending regulatory approvals. On March 3, 2015, Frontier announced that Wilderotter would become the company's Executive Chairman, effective April 3, 2015. Dan McCarthy, the company's President and COO, succeeded her as CEO. During Wilderotter's tenure as CEO of Frontier, the company grew from a regional telephone company with revenues of less than $1 billion to a national broadband, voice and video provider with operations in 28 states and nearly 8.5 million addressable households.

Upon the completion of the company's acquisition of Verizon properties, Frontier's annual revenues are expected to exceed $11 billion. In 2014, Wilderotter was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Engineering degree, honoris causa, from Stevens Institute of Technology.

Membership

Member National Cable television Association (board directors since 1987), Women in Cable (executive member), Cable television Administration & Marketing Society, California Cable television Association, National Academy Cable Programming.

Connections

Married Philip Jay Wilderotter. Children: Christopher, Daniel.

Father:

Denis James Sullivan

Mother:

Constance Rosemary (Shields) Sullivan

Spouse:

Philip Jay Wilderotter

child:

Daniel Wilderotter

child:

Christopher Wilderotter