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Edward Drilling

Year First Elected to Board: 2008
Tenure: 14 years
Age: 67

 

Professional Experience

Mr. Drilling joined AT&T (then Southwestern Bell Telephone Company) in 1979 and served in various operations positions including customer service, sales and marketing, and the external affairs organization. He was named President of AT&T’s Arkansas Division in 2002. Mr. Drilling then served as AT&T’s Senior Vice President of External and Regulatory Affairs for all fifty states, a position to which he was appointed in 2017. He retired from AT&T in 2020.

Education

  • Bachelor of Science (Marketing), Walton College at the University of Arkansas
  • Emory University Advanced Management Program
  • Berkeley Law executive education program "ESG: Navigating the Board's Role" (2022) 

Experience and Qualifications

  • Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce (past chairman)
  • Arkansas Children’s Hospital Board of Trustees (past chairman)
  • University of Arkansas Board of Advisors (past chairman)
  • Little Rock Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors (past president)
  • UAMS Arkansas BioVentures Advisory Board (past president)
  • Arkansas Research Alliance (past president)
  • Fifty for the Future (former president)
  • Arkansas Economic Development Commission (former vice chairman)

Biographical information regarding directors is based on, and also as of, Simmons First National Corporation’s latest proxy statement filed on March 14, 2023.