Walter McCormick, president and CEO of USTelecom, plans to resign at the end of 2016 after more than 15 years with the trade association.
Walter McCormick, president and CEO of USTelecom, plans to resign at the end of 2016 after more than 15 years with the trade association.
McCormick (pictured) has suggested that USTelecom chairman Robert Hunt spend 2016 seeking a successor, who would take the reins in January 2017.
In his resignation letter, McCormick said “to all things there is a season and I believe that with the election of a new US president, the association would best be served by the hiring of a new executive who is prepared to make a commitment of four years or longer to representing the industry and leading it forward”.
Before joining USTelecom in 2001, McCormick was president and CEO of the American Trucking Associations. He has also served as a member of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, general counsel of the US Department of Transportation, and partner at law firm Bryan Cave.
He holds degrees in journalism and law from the University of Missouri and has completed the program for senior managers in government at Harvard University’s John F Kennedy School of Government.
USTelecom represents service providers, manufacturers and suppliers, with members ranging from large publicly traded corporations to smaller companies and cooperatives.