Sol Trujillo

Sol Trujillo is a highly experienced international business executive who brings 30 years of international business experience to the company, having served as chief executive officer of three $50 billion market cap companies on three continents in the media communications space; US West (now Qwest), Orange (now France Telecom) and Telstra, the Australian communications company.

Recognized as a broadband and wireless pioneer, he has a reputation as an innovator in the digital space, described by President Ronald Reagan’s science adviser as “the nation’s first digital telecom CEO.” Mr. Trujillo has managed operations and remains active in business affairs in both developed and emerging markets from China and South Asia to Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, including more than 20 countries around the world. At Telstra, Mr. Trujillo completed the company’s privatization and led an end-to-end transformation of a traditional government-owned telco into an integrated media-communications company with world-leading results. These achievements were recognized by his selection as “CEO of the Year” for 2008 by Australian Telecom Magazine.

Mr. Trujillo is an active member of corporate boards in the U.S., EU, and China — including, in the U.S., Target (Minneapolis) and Promerica Bank (Los Angeles), where he is vice chairman; and internationally, WPP Group (UK), the world’s largest communications services group with offices in 107 countries; Weather Investments S.p.A (Italy), Silk Road Technologies (Hangzhou, China), where he is board chairman. Mr. Trujillo previously served on the boards of Bank of America, PepsiCo, EDS, Orange, Telstra and Gannett, the newspaper chain that includes USA Today.

In the public sector, he served as a trade policy advisor to the Clinton and Bush administrations and remains active on public policy issues related to immigration, trade, productivity and fiscal affairs.