Susan G. Swenson is president and chief executive officer of the North American regional division of Sage Software, and a director of Wells Fargo & Company.

Swenson received her BA degree from San Diego State University

San Diego State University

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. In her career with the telecommunications industry she was named vice president and general manager of Pacific Bell

Pacific Bell

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's Northern California

California

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 Region in 1993. She left to accept the position of president and chief executive officer of Cellular One

Cellular One

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 in 1994, serving until 1999. From 1999 to 2004 she was president and CEO of Leap Wireless

Leap Wireless

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In 2004-05 Swenson was CEO of T-Mobile USA

T-Mobile USA

T-Mobile USA, Inc. is an American mobile-network operator, headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, that provides wireless voice, messaging and data services in the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The company is the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S. market with 33.73...

. She served as chief operating officer of Amp'd Mobile, Inc., and of Atrinsic, Inc. (formerly known as New Motion, Inc.), before joining Sage Software, the North America

North America

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n division of The Sage Group

The Sage Group

The Sage Group plc , commonly known as Sage, is a global enterprise software company headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. It is the world's third-largest supplier of enterprise resource planning software , the largest supplier to small businesses, and has 6.1 million customers...

, PLC, United Kingdom

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, as president and CEO. On December 1, 2010 she announced her retirement from Sage effective in mid 2011.

She has been a director of Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational diversified financial services company with operations around the world. Wells Fargo is the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by assets and the largest bank by market capitalization. Wells Fargo is the second largest bank in deposits, home...

 since 1994 and also serves on the board of mBox, Inc. In addition, she was formerly chairman of General Magic

General Magic

General Magic was a company co-founded by Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld and Marc Porat that developed a new kind of handheld communications device they called a "personal intelligent communicator", which was a PDA precursor that stressed communications....

 and a director of Palm (PDA)

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In the political realm, she was a member of Gore 2000

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