Edward Drilling

Year First Elected to Board: 2008
Tenure: 17 years
Age: 69

 

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

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)