Windstream Names SMB Chief

Windstream has named Sarah Day senior vice president of small and medium sized business sales and marketing.

Day will oversee all aspects of Windstream’s relationship with small and medium sized business (SMB) customers, including sales, customer care and product marketing. She was formerly vice president of consumer marketing for the company. Prior to that, she held a variety of marketing leadership roles for Windstream and Alltel Wireless.

“Sarah is an extremely talented marketing and organizational leader,” said Jeff Gardner, president and CEO of Windstream. “Bringing together the SMB sales and marketing organizations under her able leadership will enable us to sharpen our focus on a very important channel for Windstream.”

Day holds an MBA in marketing from Wake Forest University and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Notre Dame.