Charles L. Brown
American Telephone and Telegraph
1979 - 1986
Communications
| Military Service | Navy |
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b. 1921
| Education | |
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| Undergraduate | University of Virginia |
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| Born-Died | 1921 - 2003 |
| Birthplace | Virginia (VA) |
| Race | White |
| Father | Executive, Low-/Mid-Level |
Brown guided AT&T through one of the largest corporate reorganizations in United States history by settling the government’s antitrust case in 1982. He successfully divested of AT&T’s local phone businesses and in the process, created business entities that have produced average annual returns to investors of 25%. In the process, he reinvigorated AT&T’s research and development efforts and continued to solidify AT&T’s 70% market share of long distance phone business.