Christopher K. Ancell

Christopher K. Ancell was named executive vice president of the Qwest Business Markets Group in August 2009. In this role, Mr. Ancell oversees sales, marketing, product development, and delivery of voice and data communications services to Qwest’s business and government customers. Mr. Ancell’s team of approximately 3,500 employees, located throughout the United States, generates more than $4 billion in annual revenues and provides services to 95 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500.

Prior to his current role, Mr. Ancell was vice president of sales, western region, for the Business Markets Group, a position he had held since 2004. From 2002 to 2004, he served as vice president of sales support for BMG; in that position, he was responsible for a national team of sales engineers, service managers, project managers, post-sale account managers and a specialized product sales group.

Mr. Ancell joined Qwest in 2000 as a vice president in the product organization and later became vice president of hosting sales. From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Ancell was vice president of professional services at Service Metrics, Inc., an Exodus Communications Company.  He also has held management positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers and with Oracle's Telecommunications Consulting Practice. 

Mr. Ancell holds a bachelor of science degree in economics from the University of Denver. He lives in the Denver area.