Kris Rinne

Senior Vice President, Network & Product Planning, AT&T Services, Inc.

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As AT&T Senior Vice President/Network and Product Planning, Kris Rinne is responsible for network architecture, service platforms, radio access roadmap and initial implementation, wireless device requirements and certification, network platforms, network performance analysis, and industry standards development at AT&T.

Ms. Rinne's career within AT&T and its predecessor companies includes positions as chief technology officer - Cingular Wireless, vice president - technology strategy for SBC Wireless, and managing director - operations with Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems.

In 2011, she was named as "The Most Influential Woman in Wireless" by Fierce Wireless and was listed in the Global Telecom Business Power 100 list of the most powerful telecom executives. She has also contributed to the industry as the Chairperson of the Board of Governors at 3G Americas, LLC, and as a Director of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS). Ms. Rinne is a 2013 inductee in the Wireless Hall of Fame.