Parley Casto

Vice President, Global Connections Management (GCM)

AT&T

Parley Casto is Vice President of Global Connection Management (GCM) within AT&T Network Planning, Construction and Engineering. In this role, he is responsible for AT&T’s multi-billion-dollar Access, Tower, In-Building, Pole and Data Center portfolio.

Before joining GCM, Mr. Casto was responsible for Pricing for Wholesale, System Integrator, Hyperscale, Government and Healthcare. Prior to joining the Business Marketing organization Mr. Casto was Regional Vice President of U.S. Domestic Sales for the AT&T Wholesale organization.

Before joining the Wholesale organization, Mr. Casto served as Executive Director of Special Access Product Management for SBC Communications, Inc and was responsible for product marketing, product development, rate development, contract pricing and tariff and policy development.

In the early part of Mr. Casto’s career, he served as Director of various product management organizations within SBC.  His responsibilities included directing switched access, advanced data, and various transport product management organizations. Mr. Casto began his career in telecommunications in 1989 working for AT&T Corp and then Illinois Bell in Outside, Network Operations and Engineering.

Mr. Casto received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Business and MBA from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois.

Mr. Casto is married (Elaine Casto) and resides in the Dallas area and has 5 children and 2 grandchildren.