Darren Entwistle

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Darren Entwistle

CM
Born1962 (age 6162)
Montreal, Quebec
Alma mater Concordia University
McGill University
University of Toronto
Known forPresident and CEO of TELUS

Darren Entwistle CM (born 1962) is a Canadian businessman. He is currently the president and chief executive officer of TELUS, a Canadian telecommunications company.

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Early life

Born in Montreal, Quebec, [1] Entwistle received a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from Concordia University, an MBA (Finance) from the McGill University Desautels Faculty of Management and a diploma in Network Engineering from the University of Toronto. [2]

Career

Entwistle joined TELUS in 2000. [3] Previously he was an executive at Cable & Wireless in the United Kingdom. [4] [5] Under Entwistle, TELUS has evolved from a regional telephone company serving Western Canada into a national data and wireless business. [4] The $6.6 billion purchase of Clearnet in 2000 was one of the biggest acquisitions in Canadian telecommunications history at that time. [6] With the acquisition of Emergis in 2008, TELUS moved towards making digital patient information more accessible to patients and their providers which was a move that was embedded in TELUS’ Health Solutions division. [7] [8]

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