Darren Entwistle
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Darren Entwistle | |
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| Born | 1962 (age 62–63) Montreal, Quebec |
| Alma mater | Concordia University McGill University University of Toronto |
| Known for | President 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.
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]