AT&T Appoints First Chief Sustainability Officer
Company Names Charlene Lake to New Post as Part of its Ongoing Commitment to Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability.
AT&T* announced the appointment of Charlene Lake as senior vice president public affairs and chief sustainability officer. In this capacity, Lake will lead AT&T’s efforts to achieve a wide range of specific, sustainable business objectives, working with the Public Policy Committee of the Board of Directors, the Chairman’s office, and AT&T’s executive management team to further integrate sustainable business practices across AT&T and its supply chain.
“Our appointment of a chief sustainability officer reflects our commitment to our long-term future and the communities where we live and work,” said Randall Stephenson, chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T Inc.
AT&T has taken a number of steps in the last 18 months to strengthen its commitment to sustainable business practices and operations, including:
Establishing accountability with the AT&T Board of Directors. At the end of 2007, AT&T changed the charter of its Public Policy Committee of the Board of Directors to establish clear oversight in the area of citizenship and sustainability.
Creating a cross-functional steering committee made up of senior executives and officers from across AT&T to better integrate sustainability into its business operations.
Launching AT&T Aspire, a $100 million philanthropic program to help strengthen student success and workforce readiness and begin impacting the labor pool for all businesses.
Making tangible commitments to environmental stewardship, such as an investment commitment of up to $565 million to deploy more than 15,000 fuel vehicles over the next 10 years, as well as additional investments to support the use of wind and solar power for facilities in California and Texas, and energy-saving software for 310,000 desktop computers across domestic operations.
AT&T also is building on its history of collaborating with industry groups and government to develop new approaches to measuring and improving energy efficiency. These include:
Working with The Green Grid, a global consortium, to advance energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems.
Assisting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the development of a new ENERGY STAR rating for data center infrastructure.
Collaborating through the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), a global organization of ICT companies, to improve the sustainability impact of the ICT industry. With GeSI, AT&T helped launch the U.S. Addendum to the “SMART 2020” report, which found that ICT-enabled solutions could cut annual emissions in the U.S. by 13- 22 percent by 2020.
A Kansas native, Lake began her career at Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in 1986 in Topeka, Kan., and served in management roles in financial communications, media relations and employee communications in Kansas, Missouri and Texas. Lake took over the leadership of SBC Communication’s corporate advertising and sports marketing department during the mid-90s, and managed the organizations through the mergers of Pacific Bell, Southern New England Telephone and Ameritech. She then became responsible for leading the public affairs unit, and after the AT&T merger, she assumed AT&T’s philanthropic and volunteerism initiatives. In 2008, Lake was tapped to lead the development of AT&T’s centralized corporate citizenship and sustainability function.
For more information about AT&T’s sustainability efforts, please visit www.att.com/sustainability.
AT&T* announced the appointment of Charlene Lake as senior vice president public affairs and chief sustainability officer. In this capacity, Lake will lead AT&T’s efforts to achieve a wide range of specific, sustainable business objectives, working with the Public Policy Committee of the Board of Directors, the Chairman’s office, and AT&T’s executive management team to further integrate sustainable business practices across AT&T and its supply chain.
“Our appointment of a chief sustainability officer reflects our commitment to our long-term future and the communities where we live and work,” said Randall Stephenson, chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T Inc.
AT&T has taken a number of steps in the last 18 months to strengthen its commitment to sustainable business practices and operations, including:
Establishing accountability with the AT&T Board of Directors. At the end of 2007, AT&T changed the charter of its Public Policy Committee of the Board of Directors to establish clear oversight in the area of citizenship and sustainability.
Creating a cross-functional steering committee made up of senior executives and officers from across AT&T to better integrate sustainability into its business operations.
Launching AT&T Aspire, a $100 million philanthropic program to help strengthen student success and workforce readiness and begin impacting the labor pool for all businesses.
Making tangible commitments to environmental stewardship, such as an investment commitment of up to $565 million to deploy more than 15,000 fuel vehicles over the next 10 years, as well as additional investments to support the use of wind and solar power for facilities in California and Texas, and energy-saving software for 310,000 desktop computers across domestic operations.
AT&T also is building on its history of collaborating with industry groups and government to develop new approaches to measuring and improving energy efficiency. These include:
Working with The Green Grid, a global consortium, to advance energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems.
Assisting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the development of a new ENERGY STAR rating for data center infrastructure.
Collaborating through the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), a global organization of ICT companies, to improve the sustainability impact of the ICT industry. With GeSI, AT&T helped launch the U.S. Addendum to the “SMART 2020” report, which found that ICT-enabled solutions could cut annual emissions in the U.S. by 13- 22 percent by 2020.
A Kansas native, Lake began her career at Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in 1986 in Topeka, Kan., and served in management roles in financial communications, media relations and employee communications in Kansas, Missouri and Texas. Lake took over the leadership of SBC Communication’s corporate advertising and sports marketing department during the mid-90s, and managed the organizations through the mergers of Pacific Bell, Southern New England Telephone and Ameritech. She then became responsible for leading the public affairs unit, and after the AT&T merger, she assumed AT&T’s philanthropic and volunteerism initiatives. In 2008, Lake was tapped to lead the development of AT&T’s centralized corporate citizenship and sustainability function.
For more information about AT&T’s sustainability efforts, please visit www.att.com/sustainability.
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