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Profile: Walter McCormick, United States Telecom Association

Confronted with aging old-line industries, two different associations have chosen Walter B. McCormick to come in and make sweeping changes. As a freshman CEO at the American Trucking Associations, he led a broad restructuring effort to consolidate the group’s far-flung councils and subsidiaries and made a push for new technologies that would revamp the industry. USTelecom ordered similar changes. As technology platforms in the telecommunications industry evolved, McCormick embarked on a massive effort to retool the group’s branding and policy mission with a singular focus on broadband deployment. In both roles, McCormick confronted the new mandate of the association… Read More