AT&T names new federal leader
By
Nick Wakeman
Christopher Rooney will lead communications and professional services business in the federal market.
AT&T Corp., New York, appointed Christopher Rooney to lead the telecom giant's communications and professional services business in the federal market. Rooney succeeds Larry Spilman, who is retiring after 30 years with AT&T.
Rooney was chief executive officer of Priority Telecom, an Amsterdam-based communications company that provides business network services in metropolitan markets in the Netherlands, Austria and Norway.
He also was president of the former Global One joint venture between Deutsche Telecom, France Telecom and Sprint Corp. Earlier, he formed and managed Sprint's business operations division that provided order processing, installation, customer service and repair for business customers, and he led marketing, sales and operations in Sprint's government markets organization.
Rooney holds a bachelor's degree from Saint Bernard College, Cullman, Ala., and a master's in computer science from American University. He attained the rank of lieutenant colonel during 20 years of service in the Marine Corps.