February 27, 2003

Krista Tillman, president of BellSouth’s North Carolina operations, was awarded the 2002 Charlotte Businesswoman of the Year Award today at a luncheon on the campus of Queens University of Charlotte.

Tillman was honored for civic, business and cultural contributions in Charlotte.  Tillman is a former high school teacher who began her career with BellSouth as an engineer.  Tillman was selected from a group of five finalists that included Donna Armstrong, Beth Monaghan, Paula Newsome and Dana Rader. 

The Charlotte Businesswoman of the Year Award is co-sponsored by Queens University of Charlotte, Wachovia and First Union.  This is the seventeenth year the award has been given.

While at BellSouth, Tillman has served as director of public policy planning at BellCore, operations vice president for Interconnection Services, and as president of Small Business Services, where she was responsible for customer operations for BellSouth’s 1.1 million small business customers. Tillman serves as chairman of the North Carolina Business Committee for Education, chair of the Charlotte Center City Partners and co-chair of the Education First Commission. 

The awards luncheon was preceded by a seminar featuring several Queens University of Charlotte faculty members and Sally Helgesen, leading expert on women’s leadership and global management.  Helgesen, author of “The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership” and “Thriving in 24/7: Six Strategies for Taming the New World of Work,” discussed effective leadership during uncertain times.

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