Company: AT&T, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Company Division/Group: AT&T Business Solutions
Company Description: AT&T's mission is to connect people with their world, everywhere they live and work, and do it better than anyone else. We're fulfilling this vision by creating new solutions for consumers and businesses and by driving innovation in the communications and entertainment industry.
Nomination Category: Individual Awards Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Female Executive of the Year – Business Services –More Than 2,500 Employees

Nomination Title: Cathy Martine, President of AT&T Enterprise Business Solutions

Describe for the judges the activities and accomplishments of the nominated executive since the beginning of July last year (up to 525 words):

Cathy Martine, President—AT&T Enterprise Business Solutions, leads one of the Fortune 11 company’s revenue generating business units, overseeing approximately 9,000 associates. She is responsible for the sales, distribution, marketing and product management of AT&T business solutions across the mobility and wireline product portfolios—including smartphones, tablets, high-bandwidth services, hosting, cloud, security, and application services. In this capacity, she supports small businesses to Fortune 100 companies, approximately 3.5M AT&T business customers in total.

Under Cathy’s leadership, AT&T is transforming its small and medium business customers’ adoption of mobility and strategic business solutions. She has also led the transformation of the sales force with the adoption of a “universal seller model.” Now, business sales associates sell the entire portfolio of AT&T products and services to meet their business customers’ needs.

The Enterprise Business Solutions organization’s accomplishments are evident in Cathy’s leadership, in driving double digit strategic business services growth and providing AT&T business customers with unsurpassed technology to meet their ever-evolving communication needs. A few of the key business customers include Uber, Tesla and the Dallas Cowboys.

Cathy also leads AT&T’s “Fiber to the Building” program, an initiative to proactively expand AT&T’s fiber network to reach an additional one million business customer locations in multi-tenant business buildings in its wireline service area. To date, AT&T has deployed fiber to more than half a million business customer locations under Cathy’s leadership. In mid-September, she also successfully launched a new high speed Internet fiber service—AT&T Business Fiber—that will allow businesses in AT&T Fiber Ready Buildings to access services and technologies to help take their businesses to the next level.

Through June 2014, AT&T brought fiber to hundreds of thousands of business customers. This led to sales of fiber based products yielding over $83M in revenue. In the Mobility space, under her leadership SMB customers are moving in unprecedented numbers to adopt AT&T’s Mobile Share plans, which provides our customers with the best value. As of June 2014, 66% of all SMB customers are on a Mobile Share plan.

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Provide a brief biography of the nominated executive (up to 125 words):

Beyond her current role, Cathy Martine has held various executive positions since joining AT&T in 1980. With P&L responsibilities since 1994 ranging from $4B to $25B today, she has served as President and CEO of the Midwest and East Regions, President of Global Carrier Services and Operations, and led the AT&T Merger Integration Implementation Team with the acquisition of AT&T by SBC. Additionally, Cathy was selected as a member of the 2004 Forbes E-Gang as "Internet Trendsetter.”

Cathy holds a Bachelor in Economics from the College of Mount Saint Vincent; a Master of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Sloan Fellow; and a Master of Business Administration from New York University. She lives in Far Hills, NJ, with her husband and two children.