Edward Drilling
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Year First Elected to Board: 2008
Tenure: 15 years
Age: 68
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 Game and Fish Foundation Board (current member)
- Nature Conservancy Board (current member)
- 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 (founding member)
- Fifty for the Future (former president)
- Arkansas Economic Development Commission (former vice chairman)