Constance Weaver Elected AT&T EVP, Public Relations and Brand Management

Business Wire, Sept 30, 2002

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BEDMINSTER, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 2002

Succeeds Dick Martin, who is retiring after 32-year career

The AT&T Board of Directors has elected Constance Weaver to be executive vice president, Public Relations and Brand Management, effective immediately. Weaver, currently Vice President of Investor Relations, succeeds Dick Martin, who has announced plans to retire.

As a member of AT&T's executive team, Weaver has played a central role in executing the company's strategy through an extended period of corporate restructuring and change. Before joining AT&T in 1996, she held leadership positions with responsibility for Investor Relations and Financial Communications for Microsoft Corp. and MCI Communications. She spent ten years at McGraw Hill, in a number of management positions including product management, marketing, and corporate planning, and where she became Executive Director for a unit of Business Week.

Weaver, 50, holds a B.S. from the University of Maryland and completed post-graduate financial management, marketing and strategic planning courses at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; Stanford University; Columbia University and Imede (Switzerland).

She has authored numerous college and high school textbooks and white papers on topics ranging from investor relations and value management to electronic office procedures.

Martin, 56, will remain with AT&T until early next year to ensure a smooth transition and will continue to serve as Chairman of the AT&T Foundation and of the company's Corporate Responsibility Council.

He joined Western Electric, then the manufacturing and supply unit of the Bell System, 32 years ago. During his career, he has directed public relations, corporate advertising and brand management, and was named corporate vice president of public relations in 1991. He was elected to his current position by the Board of Directors in 1997, and is a member of the PR Seminar and on the Board of Directors of Arthur W. Page Society.