Frontier Communications Corporation

   
 
 
Officers | Board of Directors
Kathleen Quinn Abernathy
Director
Kathleen Quinn Abernathy
Director


Former FCC Commissioner Kathleen Quinn Abernathy was appointed to the Board of Directors of Frontier Communications Corporation in April 2006. Ms. Abernathy is a partner in the Washington, D.C. communications law firm Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP where she advises clients on a wide variety of policy and regulatory issues related to the telecommunications and media fields. Before this she was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP.
Leroy T. Barnes, Jr.
Director
Leroy T. Barnes, Jr.
Director


Leroy T. Barnes, Jr. joined the Board of Directors of Frontier Communications Corporation in May 2005. He also serves as a Director of Longs Drug Stores, Inc., The McClatchy Company, Herbalife and The California Endowment.

In 2005, Mr. Barnes retired as Vice President and Treasurer of PG&E Corporation. From 2001 to 2005, he oversaw all financing, financial planning, risk management, cash management and pension fund operations. In 2004, he led the largest-ever U.S. utility financing, ... 
Peter C.B. Bynoe
Director
Peter C.B. Bynoe
Director


Peter C.B. Bynoe was appointed to the Board of Directors of Frontier Communications Corporation effective October 1, 2007. He is a senior partner in the Chicago office of the international law firm DLA Piper and serves on its Executive Committee. In 2005, he was named by Fortune magazine to the Fortune Diversity 2005 list of the most influential African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans in business, sports, politics, academia, and the arts. Mr. Bynoe was designated an Illinoi... 
Jeri B. Finard
Director
Jeri B. Finard
Director


Jeri B. Finard joined the Board of Directors of Frontier Communications Corporation in December 2005. She has been Senior Vice President and Global Brand President of Avon Products, Inc. since December 2008. From April 2006 until May 2007, Ms. Finard was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Kraft Foods, Inc. Prior to that, she was Executive Vice President, Global Category Development, and, before that, Group Vice President and President, U.S. Beverages Sector of Kraft Foods, ... 
Lawton Wehle Fitt
Director
Lawton Wehle Fitt
Director


Lawton Wehle Fitt joined the Board of Frontier Communications Corporation in January 2005. She is a non-executive director of Reuters and of CIENA Corporation and a trustee of several cultural and educational organizations, including PS 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York (of which she is Vice Chairman); Kunst-Werke Contemporary Art Center in Berlin, Germany; the Darden School Foundation and World-Links.

Ms. Fitt spent more than 20 years as an investment banker with Goldman, Sachs ... 
William M. Kraus
Director
William M. Kraus
Director


William M. Kraus joined the Frontier Communications Corporation Board of Directors in 2002. He is also Chairman Emeritus of Kraus-Sikes Inc., a publisher of sourcebooks featuring artists working in fine craft media.

Mr. Kraus formerly served on the Boards of Century Communications Corp. & Centennial Cellular Corp.

Prior to his retirement, Mr. Kraus had a successful career in the insurance industry. He served as a speechwriter and consultant to the Chairman's Office of The... 
Howard L. Schrott
Director
Howard L. Schrott
Director


Howard L. Schrott joined the Frontier Communications Corporation Board of Directors in July 2005. Mr. Schrott also serves on the Board of The Peace Center for the Performing Arts in Greenville, South Carolina. Mr. Schrott is a former Director of Time Warner Telecom, Inc.

Mr. Schrott was Chief Financial Officer of The Liberty Corporation, a major group television broadcaster with 15 network-affiliated stations and other media investments, from 2001 to February 2006.

Prior ... 
Larraine D. Segil
Director
Larraine D. Segil
Director


Larraine D. Segil joined the Frontier Communications Corporation Board of Directors in March 2005. She also serves on the Entrepreneurs Board of Advisors for the UCLA Anderson School of Management and on the Board of the Los Angeles Technology Alliance.

Since 2003, Ms. Segil has been a partner of Vantage Partners, a consulting firm with expertise in helping companies manage their critical business relationships. She has been Chief Executive Officer of Larraine Segil Inc. since 1987. ... 
David H. Ward
Director
David H. Ward
Director


David H. Ward joined the Board of Directors of Frontier Communications Corporation in October 2004.

Currently, Mr. Ward is the Chief Financial Officer of Voltarc Technologies, Inc., a manufacturer of specialty lighting products. Since 1999, he has been a principal of Lighting Technology Holdings Inc., a holding company that purchased a manufacturer of lighting products.

From 1996 to 1998, he was part-owner, Director and Chief Financial Officer of National Human Resources ... 
Myron A. Wick
Director
Myron A. Wick
Director


Myron A. (Mike) Wick, III became a Director of Frontier Communications Corporation in March 2005. He also serves as a Director of Modtech, Inc., StoryFirst Communications, Inc. and MicroIslet. He is Chairman of The Hoffman Institute, The Natural Step and the Tanager Foundation.

Mr. Wick served as COO, CEO and Chairman of a variety of enterprises spanning aquaculture, biotech, education, television broadcasting and investment banking. He served as President and CEO of International Oc... 
Maggie Wilderotter
Director
Maggie Wilderotter
Director


Maggie Wilderotter became Chairman and CEO of Frontier Communications on January 1, 2006. She joined the company on November 1, 2004, as President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. Before this, Ms. Wilderotter was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector at Microsoft, responsible for strengthening customer and partner outreach in the government and education markets, as well as working across Microsoft's business divisions to develop and coordinate forwa...