Forrest E. Miller

Overview

Forrest E. Miller, group president-external affairs and planning, is responsible for external affairs policy, federal affairs, and corporate planning. He oversees developing the company's federal and state regulatory and legislative policy agenda, implementing the company's federal regulatory and legislative plans, and is responsible for developing SBC's corporate strategy. He was appointed to his current position in May 2004. Previously he served as group president-corporate planning, where he was responsible for strategic planning across the SBC enterprise and served as head of Sterling Commerce, SBC's e-commerce software subsidiary. Prior to that he served as president and chief executive officer of SBC Southwestern Bell. He also previously served as president and CEO SBC SNET. From July 1997 until his appointment to head SNET in October 1999, Miller served as president and chief executive officer of SBC Directory Operations, the directory publishing subsidiary of SBC Communications Inc. At the time Pacific Telesis was acquired by SBC in 1997, Miller was President of Pacific Bell Directory. Miller joined Pacific Telesis Group's finance organization in 1984 and held various positions in operations, finance, planning and corporate development there. Before joining Pacific Telesis, Miller was a senior associate at Marakon Associates, a management consulting firm. Prior to that, Miller spent four years with the public accounting firm, Coopers & Lybrand. He is a certified public accountant. Miller holds a bachelor of science degree in accounting from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.