CenturyTel and EMBARQ have named Mike Brill vice president/general manager for Indiana and Michigan.
He will be located in Warsaw.
Brill will direct the performance of the CenturyTel and EMBARQ combined company throughout Indiana and Michigan as well as manage local customer support and growth opportunities.Brill has 26 years of telecom industry experience. He most recently led network services field operations for EMBARQ in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey which included installation and repair of business and residential services as well as operation maintenance.
Brill holds a master's degree in Business Administration from St. Francis College in Fort Wayne, a bachelor's degree from Tri-State University in Angola, and is a certified senior professional with the Society of Human Resource Management.
"Our priority as a new company is to serve our local customers by understanding their needs, delivering product and service innovation and preparing for the future," said Brill. "I'm so pleased to be leading these efforts in Indiana and Michigan."
Brill resides near North Webster with his wife, Sandi, and their two sons, Chris and Cameron.
EMBARQ and CenturyTel completed a merger on July 1. The company will begin operating as CenturyLink later this year. The combined company had an operating presence in 33 states, and approximately 7.5 million access lines, 2.1 million broadband customers and approximately 440,000 video subscribers as of March 31, 2009.
CenturyLink is a leading provider of high-quality voice, broadband and video services over its advanced communications networks to consumers and businesses in 33 states. CenturyLink, headquartered in Monroe, La., is an S&P 500 Company and expects to be listed in the Fortune 500 list of America's largest corporations. For more information on CenturyLink, visit www.centurylink.com.
