CTIA-The Wireless Association® Announces 2015 Board of Directors and Officers

LAS VEGAS, Sept. 9, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On day one of Super Mobility Week, CTIA-The Wireless Association® announced its 2015 Board of Directors and Officers. The 2015 Officers will be Bluegrass Cellular, Inc President and CEO Ronald Smith as Chairman, AT&T Mobility President and CEO Glenn Lurie as Vice Chairman, QUALCOMM, Inc. Senior Vice President of Business Development Howard Wright as Secretary, Asurion Chairman Bret Comolli as Treasurer and Verizon Wireless President and CEO Dan Mead as Chairman Emeritus.

"The 2015 board of directors will be vital to helping keep the light regulatory touch that has facilitated the world's leading mobile ecosystem.   I feel very lucky that such a distinguished group will help lead us as we embrace a connected life and continued innovation and experimentation.  By working together, these individuals will be important advocates with the expertise needed to guide the industry toward identifying and working with the federal government, policymakers and other interested stakeholders to find more spectrum so  Americans can continue to enjoy the best mobile products and services," said Meredith Attwell Baker, CTIA President and CEO.

Beginning the one year term January 1, 2015, CTIA's Board of Directors will be:

• Charles Marsh, President of the Americas Region, Alcatel-Lucent
• Dr. Guy (Bud) Tribble, Senior Vice President for Software Engineering, Apple, Inc.
• Manny Becerra, President of Connected Living, Assurant Solutions
• Bret Comolli, Chairman, Asurion
• Glenn Lurie, President and CEO, AT&T Mobility, AT&T
• Jim Mackey, EVP, Corporate Development and Strategic Planning, BlackBerry Limited
• Ronald Smith, President and CEO, Bluegrass Cellular, Inc.
• Slayton Stewart, CEO, Carolina West Wireless
• Wirt Yerger, III, Manager, Cavalier Wireless, LLC
• Patrick Riordan, President and CEO, Cellcom
• Meredith Attwell Baker, President and CEO, CTIA- The Wireless Association
• Jonathan Kriegel, President and CEO, DoCoMo Pacific, Inc.
• Angel Ruiz, President and CEO, Ericsson, Inc.
• Mary Chan, President, Global Connected Consumer, GM Onstar
• Bashar Nejdawi, Executive Vice President, Ingram Micro and President, North America, Ingram Micro Mobility
• Rip Gerber, President and CEO, Locaid Technologies, Inc.
• Bruce Hyung Seock Lee, Vice President, LG Electronics Mobile Research U.S.A., LLC
• Jeff Miller, Corporate Vice President, Global Sales, Motorola Mobility
• Rick Corker, Executive Vice President of the North American Market for Networks, Nokia Corporation
• Rodney Dir, President and COO, nTelos Wireless
• Richard Ruhl, General Manager, Pioneer Cellular
• Howard Wright, Senior Vice President, Business Development, QUALCOMM, Inc.
• John Chiorando, CEO, Quality One Wireless, LLC
• Mike Narula, President and CEO, Reliance Communications LLC
• Gregory Lee, President and CEO, Samsung Telecommunications America, L.P.
• Sethu M., President, SAP Mobile Services
• Judd E. Hinkle, President and CEO, Smith Bagley, Inc. DBA Cellular One of N.E. AZ
• Marcelo Claure, President and CEO, Sprint Corporation
• Don Horsley, President and CEO, SouthernLINC Wireless
• Stephen Gray, Interim President and CEO, Syniverse Technologies
• Maurice B. Tose, Chairman, President and CEO, TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.
• John Legere, CEO, T-Mobile USA
• F.J. Pollak, President and CEO, TracFone Wireless, Inc.
• Jeff Lawson, CEO and Co-Founder, Twilio, Inc.
• Kenneth Meyers, President and CEO, U.S. Cellular
• Dan Mead, President and CEO, Verizon Wireless

CTIA-The Wireless Association® (www.ctia.org) is an international organization representing the wireless communications industry. Membership in the association includes wireless carriers and their suppliers, as well as providers and manufacturers of wireless data services and products. CTIA advocates on behalf of its members at all levels of government. The association also coordinates the industry's voluntary best practices and initiatives, and sponsors the industry's leading wireless tradeshow. CTIA was founded in 1984 and is based in Washington, D.C.

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