Chuck Smith

Mr. Smith was elected as a director in October 2011. He is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of SBC West, now AT&T and formerly SBC Pacific Bell/SBC Nevada Bell, overseeing more than 50,000 employees who delivered telecom products and services to that company’s millions of business and consumer customers in California and Nevada. Mr. Smith joined Pacific Bell in 1967 after graduating from California State University at Los Angeles with a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science with additional graduate course work and spent his more than 30 year telecom career predominantly in Operations and Executive Management positions.

In 1985 he completed a graduate program for executives at Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Smith was named the fourth Alfred North Whitehead Distinguished Lecturer in Lifelong Learning at the University of Redlands. Additionally, Mr. Smith was Vice Chair of the Board for USC’s Center for Telecommunications Management. He remains actively involved as an advisor for numerous business, educational, and community support boards and agencies. Currently Mr. Smith is Vice Chairman of the Board of the University of San Francisco and has also received honorary doctorate degrees from Menlo College and Holy Names College.