Term of Appointment: May 2015 – May 2022
Ex Officio Member (WTCS Board President): 2013-2015
apetersen@uwsa.edu
608-664-4155
Andrew “Drew” Petersen currently serves as Senior Vice President-Corporate Affairs for TDS Telecom (TDS), the seventh largest wireline telecommunications company in the United States, with headquarters in Madison, Wis. Petersen directs the nationwide legislative, regulatory, legal, business development, corporate communications and compliance operations for TDS. He also serves as the chief corporate spokesperson for TDS.
Petersen is active in the civic community of Madison and the state of Wisconsin. His professional and community leadership includes serving as an at-large member of the American Cable Association Board of Directors and Director for Park Bank, the longest serving community bank and financial institution in Madison, Wisconsin. He is past president of the Wisconsin Technical College System Board of Directors, the Madison Club and the Wisconsin State Telecommunications Association Board of Directors.
Petersen earned his Masters of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Leadership Studies from Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin. He and his wife, Laura Imhoff Petersen, and their children live in the Town of Middleton.