|
Marianne Drost is senior vice president, deputy general counsel and corporate secretary for Verizon, responsible for the corporate secretary function and supervising the following legal functions: securities, finance, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic transactions.
Drost was formerly vice president-deputy general counsel and corporate secretary for GTE, a position she held since August 1997. In that role, Drost was responsible for the practice groups providing legal advice on international and domestic strategic transactions, finance, securities law, public affairs, real estate, leasing, investment management, insurance, and commercial transactions. In addition, she was responsible for supporting the requirements of GTE's Board of Directors and for corporate governance and shareholder operations.
Previously, she served as corporate secretary for GTE Corporation since 1985 and vice president and associate general counsel-Corporate for GTE Service Corporation since 1995.
Drost joined the GTE Legal Department in 1977. She left GTE to become a senior attorney in the Legal Department of Chesebrough-Pond's Inc. in 1984, returning to GTE in 1985 as corporate secretary. She was named to the additional position of vice president and associate general counsel in 1991. Prior to joining GTE, she was associated with the Hartford, Conn., law firm of Ritter, Tapper and Totten.
Drost is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Connecticut College in New London and received her doctor of jurisprudence degree with honors from the University of Connecticut School of Law.
She is a former director and past president of the Fairfield-Westchester Chapter of the American Society of Corporate Secretaries and a past director of Literacy Volunteers of America. She also is a member of the American Society of Corporate Secretaries, the American Bar Association and the Westchester-Fairfield Corporate Counsel Association. | 