Darren Entwistle (born 1962) is a

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businessman. He is currently the president and

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TELUS Telus Communications Inc. (TCI) is the wholly owned principal subsidiary of Telus Corporation, a Telecommunications in Canada, Canadian national telecommunications company that provides a wide range of telecommunications products and services ...

, a Canadian

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s company.

Early life

Born in

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, Entwistle received a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from Concordia University, an MBA (Finance) from the

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Desautels Faculty of Management and a diploma in Network Engineering from the

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Career

Entwistle joined TELUS in 2000. Previously he was an executive at Cable & Wireless in the United Kingdom. Under Entwistle, TELUS has evolved from a regional telephone company serving Western Canada into a national data and wireless business. The $6.6 billion purchase of Clearnet in 2000 was one of the biggest acquisitions in Canadian telecommunications history at that time. 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.

Community recognition

* January 2003 - Awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, which recognizes Canadians who have made outstanding and exemplary contributions to the community and Canada as a whole. * February 2007 - Honoured by McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management, with the McGill Management Achievement Award for making significant and valuable contributions to business and the community. * March 2009 - Received the

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Community Achievement Award for his contribution to philanthropic projects in British Columbia. * 2010 - Named an Honorary Fellow of th
Royal Conservatory of Music
* November 2011 - Honoured with the T. Patrick Boyle Founder's Award from the

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for outstanding achievements in entrepreneurship, the promotion of free-markets, and philanthropic support for private sector, non-profit enterprises. * May 2012 - Received an Honorary Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Northern Alberta Institute of Technology * June 2012 - Received an

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of Laws from Concordia University. * May 2013 - Received an honorary doctorate of Laws from

. * May 2013 - Accepted an honorary doctorate from

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. * 2016 - Accepted an honorary doctorate from the

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. * December 2018 - Appointed to

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References

External links

Telus biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Entwistle, Darren 1962 births Living people Concordia University alumni Members of the Order of Canada McGill University Faculty of Management alumni University of Toronto alumni Businesspeople from Montreal