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Rick Lindner is senior executive vice president and chief financial officer for AT&T Inc., formerly SBC Communications, Inc. He has served in this position since May 2004 and is responsible for directing financial planning, accounting, tax, auditing, investment management, financing and investor and shareowner relations.
Previously Lindner served as chief financial officer for Cingular Wireless, the joint wireless venture between SBC and BellSouth. Lindner joined Cingular in 2000 from SBC Wireless Inc., where he served as senior vice president and chief operating officer. He was responsible for the headquarters operations of SBC's domestic wireless business, including strategic marketing, network planning, customer care, national sales, finance and human resources.
He previously served as president and chief executive officer of Southwestern Bell Wireless where he was in charge of all wireless operations in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.
Lindner also served as vice president and chief financial officer for Southwestern Bell Telephone in San Antonio, where he directed company financial operations. Areas of responsibility included corporate budgets, financial reporting, regulatory accounting, capital recovery, financial analysis, business planning, and credit and collections. He held this position since 1996.
Lindner joined the SBC family of companies in 1986 as controller of Southwestern Bell Telecom. He became vice president and chief financial officer of Telecom in November of that year, a position he held until 1990. He then joined the holding company as director of investor relations. In 1991, he moved to Mexico City as director of finance for SBC International's Telmex operations and became controller for SBC in San Antonio in 1992.
Prior to joining SBC, Lindner was senior vice president and chief financial officer of Turco Development Company and was audit supervisor for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.
A native of St. Louis, Lindner earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in business administration from the University of Missouri at St. Louis and he completed an advanced management program in telecommunications at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
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