AT&T Appoints New Chief Technology Officer

SAN ANTONIO, April 8, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T Inc. today announced the appointment of John Donovan to the position of chief technology officer.

Based in San Antonio, Donovan will oversee the company's global technology direction and innovation road map, including product development, network and engineering operations, AT&T Labs and the security and intellectual property organizations.

"This change marks an important step in our mission to connect people where they live and work," said John Stankey, AT&T president of Telecom Operations. "John Donovan brings the vision and expertise to accelerate the evolution of our strong wireless and wireline network assets and to help deliver the next evolution of converged services."

Donovan previously was executive vice president of product, sales, marketing and operations at Verisign Inc., a diverse technology company that provides Internet infrastructure services. Before that, he was chairman and CEO for inCode Telecom Group Inc. and a director of industry practices for telecom and media at Deloitte Consulting.

"I'm excited to join AT&T at such a dynamic time in the company's history," said Donovan. "I look forward to continuing AT&T's long history of innovation and spearheading the development and deployment of advanced network technologies that will enable the convergence of new voice, data and video services for consumers and businesses."

Donovan replaces Chris Rice, who assumes the new role of executive vice president of Shared Services.

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