Maggie Wilderotter
B. Kenneth West Lifetime Achievement
Boards: Costco Wholesale Corporation, DocuSign, SANA Biotechnology,
Maggie Wilderotter is a seasoned executive who, as CEO, has led both Fortune 500 companies and start-ups in her career. In addition, she has extensive board leadership experience, serving on over 35 public company and 14 private company boards of directors.
Today, Wilderotter serves on the public boards of Costco Wholesale Corp. and Sana Biotechnology and is board chair at DocuSign. She serves on the private boards of Tanium and Sonoma Biotherapeutics. In addition, Wilderotter is also a senior advisor to a number of companies including Accenture, Okta, the Blackstone Group, Atairos, Sixth Street Partners, American Century Investments, Celonis, Garden City Equity, GEP, and SHRM, and she cochairs the Bank of America executive mentor program with CEO Brian Moynihan.
In 2024, she was named one of the Top 20 Value-Creating Directors in America by the Chief Executive Group.
Wilderotter was CEO of Frontier Communications from November 2004 to April 2015, and then executive chair of the company until April 2016. During her tenure with Frontier, the company grew from a regional telephone company with customer revenues of less than $1 billion to a national broadband, voice, and video provider with operations in 29 states and annualized revenues over $10 billion.
Previously, her career included being the senior vice president of global business strategy and running the worldwide public sector at Microsoft. Before this, she was president and CEO of Wink Communications Inc., executive vice president of national operations for AT&T Wireless Services Inc., CEO of AT&T’s aviation communications division, and a senior vice president of McCaw Cellular Communications Inc.
Wilderotter previously served on the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, under the Obama administration, as both vice chair and chair during her four-year tenure ending in 2014. Wilderotter also served until January 2017 on the president’s special commission responsible for a recommendation report on enhancing national cybersecurity to the incoming Trump administration.
Her educational credentials include a bachelor’s degree in economics from the College of the Holy Cross. She has been awarded an honorary doctor of engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology and an honorary doctor of laws from the University of Rochester.