AT&T executive team & leadership
AT&T's executive team includes 10 tracked leaders as of 2026-10-23, led by John Stankey (Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President). The org chart, per-leader profiles and full leadership list are below.
AT&T executive team overview
AT&T has 10 tracked executives leading key functions including company strategy and operations, financial strategy, day-to-day operations, technology strategy and engineering (as of 2026-10-23). AT&T Inc. is an American telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower, 208 S. Akard Street in downtown Dallas, Texas. Its common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker T. The company was incorporated in Delaware in 1983 as SBC Communications, one of the regional holding companies spun off from the original AT&T on January 1, 1984; it took the AT&T Inc. name after merging with AT&T Corp. in 2005 and bought BellSouth in 2006. It sells wireless service under the AT&T, Cricket and AT&T PREPAID brands, fiber broadband through AT&T Fiber, fixed wireless through AT&T Internet Air, and network, ethernet and managed services through AT&T Business. In 2025 it reported revenue of 125.6 billion dollars and served 120 million Mobility subscribers, including 74 million postpaid phones. In 2026 it closed the purchase of Lumen's mass-markets fiber business and of EchoStar spectrum licenses, and agreed to sell its Mexico wireless unit. John Stankey has been chief executive since July 2020 and chairman since February 2025.
AT&T executive team org chart
John StankeyChairman, Chief Executive Officer and President- PDPascal DesrochesChief Financial Officer
- JBJennifer BiryDeputy Chief Financial Officer
- JMJeff McElfreshChief Operating Officer
- JLJeremy LeggChief Technology Officer, AT&T Services
- KSKellyn Smith KennyChief Marketing and Growth Officer
- LLLori LeeGlobal Marketing Officer
- DMDavid McAteeGeneral Counsel
- EG
Ed GillespieSenior Executive Vice President, External and Legislative Affairs - DHDarcie HenryChief Human Resources Officer
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Employees by management level
| Name | Profiles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Executive officers | 10 | <0.1% |
| Senior vice presidents and vice presidents | 900 | 0.5% |
| Directors and senior managers | 9,500 | 4.8% |
| Managers | 26,000 | 13% |
| Technicians, retail, care and individual contributors | 159,825 | 81% |
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Leadership team
| Leader | Location | Profile | |
|---|---|---|---|
| JSJohn StankeyChairman, Chief Executive Officer and President | ••••@att.com | Profile → | |
| PDPascal DesrochesChief Financial Officer | ••••@att.com | Profile → | |
| JBJennifer BiryDeputy Chief Financial Officer | ••••@att.com | Profile → | |
| JMJeff McElfreshChief Operating Officer | ••••@att.com | Profile → | |
| JLJeremy LeggChief Technology Officer, AT&T Services | ••••@att.com | Profile → | |
| KSKellyn Smith KennyChief Marketing and Growth Officer | ••••@att.com | Profile → | |
| LLLori LeeGlobal Marketing Officer | ••••@att.com | Profile → | |
| DMDavid McAteeGeneral Counsel | ••••@att.com | Profile → | |
| EGEd GillespieSenior Executive Vice President, External and Legislative Affairs | ••••@att.com | Profile → | |
| DHDarcie HenryChief Human Resources Officer | ••••@att.com | Profile → |
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AT&T executive team roles
John Stankey · full profile →
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
John Stankey has led AT&T as chief executive officer and president since July 2020 and was elected chairman of the board in February 2025. He joined the company in 1985 and has held roles across nearly every part of the business, including chief operating officer, CEO of WarnerMedia, CEO of AT&T Entertainment Group, chief strategy officer, chief technology officer, CEO of AT&T Operations and CEO of AT&T Business Solutions. He is steering AT&T toward fiber and 5G as an advanced connectivity company, a strategy that drove the 2026 purchases of Lumen's consumer fiber business and EchoStar spectrum.
Pascal Desroches · full profile →
Chief Financial Officer
Pascal Desroches is senior executive vice president and chief financial officer of AT&T, leading financial planning, accounting, tax, audit, treasury, investor relations and corporate real estate. Since joining in 2021 he has run the company's cost transformation and balance sheet simplification. He was previously executive vice president and CFO of WarnerMedia, administrative officer and CFO of Turner, global controller of Time Warner and a partner at KPMG. In June 2026 he announced his retirement, effective December 31, 2026; he is set to join the GE HealthCare board in January 2027.
Jennifer Biry · full profile →
Deputy Chief Financial Officer
Jennifer Biry rejoined AT&T as deputy chief financial officer on July 6, 2026, and is set to become senior executive vice president and chief financial officer on January 1, 2027, succeeding Pascal Desroches. She was chief financial officer and chief operating officer of McAfee from 2022. Before that she spent more than two decades at AT&T from 1999 in finance, sales and strategy roles, the last as executive vice president and chief financial officer of WarnerMedia from 2020 to 2022.
Jeff McElfresh · full profile →
Chief Operating Officer
Jeff McElfresh is chief operating officer of AT&T, with nearly 30 years at the company, most of them in the Mobility business. Before becoming COO he was chief executive officer of AT&T Communications, leading nearly 200,000 employees, and earlier president of Technology and Operations, in charge of the network, technology, cybersecurity, data and labs. He ran Vrio, DIRECTV Latin America and SKY Brasil from 2015 to 2018, served as president of AT&T Mexico and sat on the boards of Telmex and America Movil, after starting in BellSouth International's Latin American wireless businesses.
Jeremy Legg · full profile →
Chief Technology Officer, AT&T Services
Jeremy Legg is chief technology officer of AT&T, overseeing technology for business, consumer, data and analytics, IT and cloud, network technology, architecture, AT&T Labs, security and new product development. He leads the company's software development, cybersecurity, data, cloud and data center strategy, including the move of its 4G mobility core to a 5G stand-alone core. He joined AT&T in June 2020 from WarnerMedia, where he was executive vice president and CTO and led technology for the HBO Max streaming platform, after serving as CTO of Turner and holding roles at AOL, Oracle and Accenture.
Kellyn Smith Kenny · full profile →
Chief Marketing and Growth Officer
Kellyn Smith Kenny is chief marketing and growth officer of AT&T, responsible for customer acquisition, customer lifetime value and the brand, with oversight of advertising, media, market research, competitive and customer intelligence and strategic partnerships. Before AT&T she was global chief marketing officer of Hilton Worldwide, leading marketing for its 18 brands and the Hilton Honors program, and she held senior roles at Uber, Capital One and Microsoft. She chairs the board of the MMA, sits on the boards of the Ad Council and the ANA, and is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.
Lori Lee · full profile →
Global Marketing Officer
Lori Lee is global marketing officer and senior executive vice president, International, at AT&T, responsible for corporate communications, flight operations, global events and sponsorships, and for AT&T Mexico. She joined the company in 1997 and has led AT&T Home Solutions and Vrio Corp., as well as roles in finance, investor relations, customer service and corporate strategy, after starting her career at PwC. She sits on the Emerson board. In October 2026 AT&T disclosed that she will retire on December 31, 2026, and that her role will be eliminated following the agreed sale of the Mexico wireless business.
David McAtee · full profile →
General Counsel
David R. McAtee II is senior executive vice president and general counsel of AT&T, responsible for all of the company's legal matters since October 2015. He joined AT&T in January 2012 as senior vice president and assistant general counsel, after working as a partner at Haynes and Boone, where he specialized in complex litigation, antitrust and government investigations, and as senior law clerk to U.S. District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer. He sits on the board of Archer Daniels Midland and is a commissioner of the Texas Access to Justice Commission.
Ed Gillespie · full profile →
Senior Executive Vice President, External and Legislative Affairs
Ed Gillespie is senior executive vice president of external and legislative affairs at AT&T Services, a role he has held since April 2020. He served in the White House as counselor to President George W. Bush in his second term, chaired the Republican National Committee in 2003 and 2004, and was a longtime senior congressional leadership aide. Before joining AT&T he chaired the public affairs practice at Sard Verbinnen and Co.; he co-founded Quinn Gillespie and Associates in 2000 and had a twenty-year consulting relationship with AT&T.
Darcie Henry · full profile →
Chief Human Resources Officer
Darcie Henry (Darcie Cakaric) is senior executive vice president and chief human resources officer of AT&T since October 2025, leading talent, culture, leadership development, compensation, benefits and employee experience. She spent more than 20 years at Amazon, where she was vice president of human resources from 2016 and chief human resources officer from July 2021 to October 2022. She was then chief people officer of Snap, of the logistics platform Flexport and of the ad platform StackAdapt before joining AT&T.