Solomon D. (“Sol”) Trujillo is an international business executive with three decades’ experience on three continents in the rapidly-changing telecommunications and media industries. As CEO of high-cap global companies headquartered in the US, the EU, and Asia-Pacific regions, he has managed operations in more than 25 countries around the world – including developed as well as emerging markets from the EU and North America to China, South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. He is a digital pioneer, long-time champion of high-speed broadband, and early advocate of the mobile Internet to stimulate productivity and advance innovation across all sectors of the economy. His vision and achievements have earned him seats on corporate boards in the US, EU, and China.
Trujillo Group Investments, LLC, Englewood, Colorado Chairman |
July 2003 – Present
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Telstra Corporation, Ltd., Melbourne, Australia Chief Executive Officer |
July 2005 – June 2009
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Orange SA, London, England Chief Executive Officer |
Feb. 2003 – March 2004
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Graviton, Inc., La Jolla, California Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer |
Jan. 2001 – Jan. 2003
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US West, Inc., Denver, Colorado Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |
1999 – July 2000
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US West, Inc., Denver, Colorado President and Chief Executive Officer |
June 1998 – May 1999
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US West Communications, Denver, Colorado Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |
July 1995 – June 1998
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US West Marketing Resources, Denver, Colorado President and Chief Executive Officer |
March 1992 – July 1995
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US West Communications, Denver, Colorado Marketing, Regulatory, Operations & GM positions |
1974 – March 1992
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Non-Executive Director, WPP Group |
2010 – Present
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Chairman, Silk Road Technologies (China) |
2009 – Present
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Vice-Chairman, Promerica Bank |
2009 – Present
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Member, Target Corporation |
1994 – Present
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Member, Weather Investments S.p.A. |
May 2009 – Present
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Bank of America |
1996 – 2000
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Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS) |
January 2005 – October 2005
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Gannett |
May 2002 – April 2006
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Orange SA |
March 2001 – March 2004
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PepsiCo |
January 2000 – September 2005
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Telstra Corporation, Ltd. |
July 2005 – June 2009
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US WEST, Inc. |
May 1999 – July 2000
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Tomas Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI) |
1991 – Present
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UCLA School of Public Policy |
2000 – 2009
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Boston College |
2000 – 2008
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Solomon D. (“Sol”) Trujillo is a global telecommunications, media, and cable industry executive born in Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1951. He has served as CEO of large-cap media-communications companies in the US, the EU, and Asia-Pacific regions. A digital pioneer and long a champion of high-speed broadband to stimulate productivity and advance innovation across all sectors of the economy, Sol is actively engaged in media-comms businesses in both developed and emerging markets, from China and South Asia to North America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. He sits on corporate boards in the US, EU, and China – including Target and Promerica Bank of Los Angeles, where he is vice chairman; China’s Silk Road Technologies, where he is chairman; and Weather Investments, headquartered in Rome with investments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.