Who are Verizon's decision-makers?
Verizon's top decision-makers include Dan H. Schulman, Chief Executive Officer; Tony Skiadas, Chief Financial Officer; Sowmyanarayan Sampath, CEO, Verizon Consumer. Real buying decisions are distributed across business units, finance, procurement, IT, security, operations, legal, and the executive sponsor for the use case.
- CEO
- Dan H. Schulman
- CFO/key exec
- Tony Skiadas
- Founded
- 2000
- Employees
- About 100,000
- HQ
- New York, NY
- Notable
- NYSE/Nasdaq: VZ
- Dan H. SchulmanChief Executive OfficerCEO in 2026Leads Verizon's consumer, business, network, and capital allocation priorities.
- Tony SkiadasChief Financial OfficerCFO since 2023Owns financial strategy, reporting, and capital allocation.
- Sowmyanarayan SampathCEO, Verizon ConsumerConsumer CEO since 2023Runs the core consumer wireless and broadband business.
- Kyle MaladyCEO, Verizon BusinessBusiness CEO since 2023Leads enterprise, public sector, and wholesale connectivity.
Who leads Verizon?
Dan H. Schulman serves as Chief Executive Officer; Tony Skiadas serves as Chief Financial Officer; Sowmyanarayan Sampath serves as CEO, Verizon Consumer; Kyle Malady serves as CEO, Verizon Business. The leadership page and annual filings are the best sources for current roles because public-company executive teams change as strategy and succession plans evolve.
Who actually makes buying decisions at Verizon?
Buying decisions depend on the category. Technology purchases usually involve IT, security, data, finance, procurement, legal, privacy, and the operating team that owns adoption. Commercial, retail, media, network, store, or supply-chain purchases add category leaders, field operators, merchandising, engineering, compliance, and sometimes board-level oversight.
For sellers, the practical path is to identify the business owner first, then map the economic buyer, procurement path, technical approver, implementation owner, and risk reviewers.
How is Verizon organized as it scales?
Verizon operates with centralized corporate functions and distributed business-unit execution. Its scale means a vendor must plan for multiple stakeholders, budget cycles, pilots, security reviews, integration work, and measured rollout before a broad deployment is approved.
As of June 2026.Sources:Verizon leadershipVerizon annual reports
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