Samuel Ginn

Samuel GinnGinn serves on the Board of Directors of ChevronTexaco (and chairs the Audit Committee) and Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust, and as an advisor to the Board of The Investment Company of America. He is also an investor and advisor to several start-up companies in Telecommunications.

He retired as Chairman of Vodafone in May, 2000. Ginn assumed the Chairmanship on June 30, 1999 when the merger between Vodafone and AirTouch was completed.

Formerly part of Pacific Telesis Group, AirTouch was spun off as an independent company on April 1, 1994. Ginn became chairman and chief executive officer of AirTouch in December, 1993. He served as CEO until the close of the merger, which was valued at $62B, and created nearly $1B a month in shareholder gain since the April 1994 spin off and more than $2B in value for the AirTouch employees who benefited from Ginn's belief in making employees owners in the company.

Starting in April, 1988, until the spin-off of AirTouch, Ginn was chairman and chief executive officer of Pacific Telesis Group. Prior to being named Telesis chairman, Ginn held the position of president and chief operating officer. He was the first employee of the Enterprise Group which led to the creation of AirTouch.

Ginn has over 42 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He began his career with AT&T in 1960 as a student engineer in Cincinnati. At AT&T he held increasingly responsible positions in management and operations. In 1977 he was appointed vice president of network operations for AT&T Long Lines. Ginn joined Pacific Telephone in 1978 as Vice President-Los Angeles

In the past he has served as Chairman of the California Business-Higher Education Forum, Chairman of the California Business Roundtable, Chairman of the Committee on Jobs. His past corporate board memberships have included: CH2M Hill, First Interstate Bank, Pacific Telesis Group, Safeway Inc., Transamerica Corporation, Vodafone PLC, AirTouch Communications, Hewlett Packard and Fremont Group, L.L.C.

A native of Alabama, Ginn is a graduate of the School of Engineering, Auburn University. He has funded a Wireless Engineering degree program at Auburn University. The College has honored him by naming its College of Engineering The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering. He became a Sloan Fellow at Stanford University's School of Business in 1969. He is now an overseer at the Hoover Institute in Palo Alto, California.

Ginn is 67 and is married to Ann Vance Ginn. They have three children and 6 grandchildren.

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