Deborah L Lenart

Deborah (Deb) Lenart joined CEC in 2008. Ms. Lenart has amassed significant experience in various executive management positions within communications and media companies. During the course of her career, she has demonstrated intense focus on customer satisfaction and has led culture change initiatives. Most recently, Ms. Lenart was U.S. Segment Leader responsible for leading the Communications Service Provider industry for Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS), a global information technology and applications outsourcing firm. Prior to her role at EDS, Ms. Lenart led several venture-backed start-up and turnaround portfolio companies as CEO of Callipso and Eziaz, as well as multi-billion dollar corporate divisions of Ameritech as President of Custom Business Services and President of New Media. Ms. Lenart has also led key legislative and regulatory policies with state and federal commissions, law makers and Congress. Her public policy experience includes providing testimony before both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate on telecommunications and media regulatory issues. Ms. Lenart holds an M.B.A. from Loyola University and a B.S. degree in marketing from the University of Illinois.