Frontier Communications Recognizes Its East Region Women Leaders
March 19 2015 - 2:27PM
Business Wire
March is Women’s History Month
This month, as the nation celebrates women’s history and today’s
visionary female leaders, Frontier Communications (NASDAQ:FTR) is
marking the occasion by recognizing the company’s own leading
women, including those holding key roles in Frontier’s East Region,
comprising New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
Frontier cultivates and encourages female leadership across the
company, from technicians in the field to executives in the
boardroom. Senior executives include Frontier Chairman and CEO
Maggie Wilderotter and East Region leaders: Kira Howell, Vice
President of Marketing; Cyn Stehouwer, Vice President of
Operations; Angela Christian, Assistant Vice President of Human
Resources; and Elena Kilpatrick, Vice President and General Manager
of Frontier’s Pennsylvania operations.
Mrs. Wilderotter says companies need to look at their talent
pipelines and make sure they have gender diversity in senior
positions, especially those with profit-and-loss
responsibility.
“Diversity brings out the best in decision-making,” she said.
“Men and women bring different things to the table that can really
increase competitive advantage. Women speak up about issues they
care about. For example, we launched our Frontier Secure
cyber-security services because feeling safe online is something
our female board members and leadership felt strongly about.”
Nearly 5,920 women work for Frontier Communications from coast
to coast. More than 570 are in positions of management, including
32 in senior management.
Frontier’s East Region female executives bring a wealth of
expertise, experience and leadership from different businesses and
industries, noted Wilderotter, and they contribute their talent and
time to community initiatives as well. Their backgrounds and
current responsibilities include:
- Howell is responsible for all marketing
activities throughout Frontier’s East Region, including brand
awareness, customer acquisition and retention strategies,
go-to-market plans, and new product introductions. She joined
Frontier in 2011 and most recently was Director, Corporate
Acquisition and Brand Marketing. Her career includes account
management, media planning, data analysis and new media channels at
Synapse Group, Inc. in Stamford. Prior to joining Frontier she was
Vice President of the Advertisement and Media Divisions of Main
Street Direct, a multi-channel acquisition and retention marketing
company.
- Stehouwer is responsible for developing
new areas for growth and improvement for the East Region. Working
with other region leaders, she is focused on maximizing growth and
profitability. She manages all operations functions including
budget spending, labor and material efficiencies, and new areas of
technology and customer service. Critical parts of Stehouwer’s role
are managing performance against operating plans, driving service
improvement, and leading the Plant Service Centers (Dispatch
and Assignment) for the region. Stehouwer has 28 years of industry
experience and joined Frontier in 2010 as Director of Operations.
She led the successful conversion to Frontier of the Verizon
operations in 13 states, and was an integral part of the
Connecticut AT&T acquisition, guiding the system, network,
video, customer, employee and operational transition.
- Christian is responsible for all Human
Resources activities in the East Region and for all HR issues
related to Information Technology and Engineering throughout the
company’s footprint. Her career at Frontier includes software
design management, management of network operations call centers,
plant service centers and residential and business call centers as
well as field experience as a General Manager in the Greater
Rochester (N.Y.) Area.
- Kilpatrick is responsible for field
operations, residential and commercial sales, and every aspect of
the customer experience in Frontier’s Pennsylvania territories. She
previously served as Area General Manager of the company’s
Northeast Pennsylvania region, and with the predecessor company
Commonwealth Telephone Enterprises (CTE) in a variety of senior
sales management roles. Prior to CTE, Kilpatrick was affiliated
with Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile holding management positions in the
retail, channel development and product management areas.
Kilpatrick serves on the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce, the
Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry and the
Northern Tier Work Force Investment Board. Kilpatrick previously
was the External Vice President for the Central Bradford Chamber of
Commerce, served on the Advisory Board for the Great Valley
Technology Alliance (currently TecBridge) business plan competition
and is a graduate of Leadership Lackawanna’s Class of 2005.
At Frontier, we give women opportunities to take on new
challenges and encourage them to go beyond their comfort zones,”
said Mrs. Wilderotter. “We are very proud of all leaders at
Frontier who have created their own career paths and excelled, and
we’re thrilled to have the women of our East Region leadership team
helping to steer our course.”
About FRONTIER
COMMUNICATIONS
Frontier Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:FTR) offers
broadband, voice, video, wireless Internet data access, data
security solutions, bundled offerings, specialized bundles for
residential customers, small businesses and home offices and
advanced communications for medium and large businesses in 28
states. Frontier's approximately 17,400 employees are based
entirely in the United States. More information is available at
www.frontier.com.
Frontier CommunicationsPatricia Amendola,
570-631-6013Communications ManagerPatricia.Amendola@ftr.com
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