Frontier Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: FTR) today
announced that R. Perley McBride will join the Company on September
12, 2016, and will become Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer following a transition period. Mr. McBride will
succeed John Jureller, who is stepping down to pursue other
opportunities.
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Mr. McBride has over two decades of experience in financial
roles in the communications industry, including more than a decade
at Frontier earlier in his career, and was most recently CFO at
Cable & Wireless Communications Plc.
Dan McCarthy, Frontier’s President and CEO, said, “We are very
pleased to welcome Perley back to Frontier. Perley is a highly
respected finance leader in the communications industry and has
unique insight into our business as a result of his prior roles
here. He has a successful track record of allocating capital to
drive shareholder value, increasing efficiency, improving margins,
and executing on strategic plans. Perley will play an integral part
in attaining the financial targets we have set for Frontier,
including achieving Adjusted Free Cash Flow in the range of $825
million to $900 million in 2016, Adjusted EBITDA in excess of $4
billion in 2017, as well as our expense synergy target of at least
$1.25 billion.”
Mr. McBride said, “I am very excited to be rejoining Frontier at
such a pivotal time in the Company’s history. Frontier has
tremendous future opportunities and I look forward to being a part
of Dan’s team as we seek to grow the business and achieve the
substantial synergies and efficiencies made possible by Frontier’s
substantially-increased scale.”
Mr. McCarthy added, “I would like to thank John Jureller for his
many contributions during his four years with Frontier, a period
that included two major acquisitions that more than doubled our
size. I am pleased that John will stay on to ensure a seamless
handoff, and we wish him well in his future endeavors.”
R. Perley McBride
Biography
Prior to joining Frontier, Perley McBride was the Chief
Financial Officer of Cable & Wireless Communications Plc until
its May 2016 acquisition by Liberty Global plc. Previously, Mr.
McBride served as Chief Financial Officer at Leap Wireless
International, which operated the Cricket Communications mobile
brand, from December 2012 through May 2014 and was part of the
Executive team that led the business through its acquisition by
AT&T Inc. Prior to Leap Wireless, he served as Executive Vice
President of Finance at The Weather Company, owner of The Weather
Channel among other assets, between 2010 and 2012, where he was
instrumental in achieving sustained EBITDA growth and reducing
leverage by two turns. He served in several senior financial
management roles at Frontier between 1999 and 2010, and also
between 1994 and 1997. During that period, he created a culture of
expense discipline that enabled Frontier to achieve a consistent
track record of sustaining industry-leading margins. He also worked
in the finance department at Sprint Corporation early in his
career. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Mount Allison
University in Canada and has an MBA from the University of
Houston.
About Frontier Communications
Frontier Communications Corporation is a leader in providing
communications services to urban, suburban, and rural communities
in 29 states. Frontier offers a variety of services to residential
customers over its fiber-optic and copper networks, including
video, high-speed internet, advanced voice, and Frontier Secure®
digital protection solutions. Frontier Business Edge™ offers
communications solutions to small, medium, and enterprise
businesses. Frontier’s approximately 30,300 employees are based
entirely in the United States. More information about Frontier is
available at www.frontier.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This document contains "forward-looking statements," related to
future, not past, events. Forward-looking statements address our
expected future business and financial performance and financial
condition, and contain words such as "expect," "anticipate,"
"intend," "plan," "believe," "seek," "see," "will," "would," or
"target." Forward-looking statements by their nature address
matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain. For us,
particular uncertainties that could cause our actual results to be
materially different than those expressed in our forward-looking
statements include: risks related to the acquisition of properties
from Verizon, including our ability to successfully operate the
acquired business, our ability to realize anticipated cost savings,
our ability to enter into or obtain, or delays in entering into or
obtaining, agreements and consents necessary to operate the
acquired business as planned, on terms acceptable to us, and
increased expenses incurred due to activities related to the
transaction; our ability to meet our debt and debt service
obligations; competition from cable, wireless and wireline carriers
and satellite companies and the risk that we will not respond on a
timely or profitable basis; our ability to successfully adjust to
changes in the communications industry, including the effects of
technological changes and competition on our capital expenditures,
products and service offerings; reductions in revenue from our
voice customers that we cannot offset with increases in revenue
from broadband and video subscribers and sales of other products
and services; our ability to maintain relationships with customers,
employees or suppliers; the impact of regulation and regulatory,
investigative and legal proceedings and legal compliance risks;
continued reductions in switched access revenues as a result of
regulation, competition or technology substitutions; the effects of
changes in the availability of federal and state universal service
funding or other subsidies to us and our competitors; our ability
to effectively manage service quality in our territories and meet
mandated service quality metrics; our ability to successfully
introduce new product offerings; the effects of changes in
accounting policies or practices, including potential future
impairment charges with respect to our intangible assets; our
ability to effectively manage our operations, operating expenses,
capital expenditures, debt service requirements and cash paid for
income taxes and liquidity, which may affect payment of dividends
on our common and preferred shares; the effects of changes in both
general and local economic conditions on the markets that we serve;
the effects of increased medical expenses and pension and
postemployment expenses; the effects of changes in income tax
rates, tax laws, regulations or rulings, or federal or state tax
assessments; our ability to successfully renegotiate union
contracts; changes in pension plan assumptions, interest rates,
regulatory rules and/or the value of our pension plan assets, which
could require us to make increased contributions to the pension
plan in 2016 and beyond; adverse changes in the credit markets or
in the ratings given to our debt securities by nationally
accredited ratings organizations, which could limit or restrict the
ability, or increase the cost, of financing to us; the effects of
state regulatory cash management practices that could limit our
ability to transfer cash among our subsidiaries or dividend funds
up to the parent company; the effects of severe weather events or
other natural or man-made disasters, which may increase our
operating expenses or adversely impact customer revenue; the impact
of potential information technology or data security breaches or
other disruptions; and the other factors that are described in our
filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including
our reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q. These risks and uncertainties
may cause our actual future results to be materially different than
those expressed in our forward-looking statements. We do not
undertake to update or revise these forward-looking statements.
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Frontier CommunicationsInvestors:Luke Szymczak,
203-614-5044Vice President, Investor
Relationsluke.szymczak@ftr.comorMedia:Peter DePasquale,
203-614-5097Vice President, Corporate
Communicationspeter.depasquale@ftr.com
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