Ted Creech is Director of External Affairs for AT&T in South Carolina. Ted directs the economic development, local government, and external and community relations activities for the company in South Carolina.
Ted previously served as AT&T’s Legislative Affairs director at the S.C. General Assembly, and before being promoted to that position, he was Regional Director for AT&T in the Lowcountry where he managed the company’s economic development and external affairs in the Charleston region.
Ted graduated from the University of South Carolina with honors in 1981. He worked in television and radio news early in his career and won several state and national reporting awards.
During his career with BellSouth before the company merged with AT&T, Ted gained a thorough knowledge of telecommunications technology and regulation while working on several landmark regulatory initiatives in the 1990s. While in Atlanta, he directed the corporate-wide marketing communications for BellSouth’s then-emerging Internet business in the late ‘90s and helped lead the initial corporate launch of broadband DSL.
Ted is currently Vice Chair of the Board of the Central SC Alliance, and he is a past Chairman of the Charleston Regional Development Alliance Board and Summerville-Dorchester Chamber Board. He also currently serves on the Boards of the Columbia Urban League, SC Council on Competitiveness, the Columbia Chamber, and the Palmetto Health Foundation. Ted is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Claflin University.
Ted and his wife, Rosa, live in Columbia and have three sons and one granddaughter.