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10 Verizon engineering leaders
These ten current and former Verizon engineering and technology leaders, including Verizon's CTO and a former Verizon Business CTO, have led network, cloud, device and product engineering at the carrier. A reader can learn from them how Verizon plans, builds and runs its 5G, broadband and cloud infrastructure.
Professionals to explore
01—10Abraham Arencibia
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Technology & Product Engineering · Verizon
Vice President of Technology & Product Engineering at Verizon since June 2025 (current). Former Associate Vice President - Product Development and Head of Verizon Innovation Labs (2022–2025) and Director of Technology - 5G Development & Solutions (2017–2022) at Verizon. His summary describes leading teams of technologists and product developers across consumer, enterprise and public sector verticals.
Anil Guntupalli
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President Technology & Product Engineering · Verizon
Senior Vice President Technology & Product Engineering at Verizon since November 2025 (current), with a Vice President Technology, Product Engineering - Verizon Consumer Products row since 2024. Former Vice President Technology Planning & Development - Network Cloud & Edge Infrastructure, Security (2022–2024), Executive Director Technology Strategy, Architecture & Innovation (2016–2022) and Director Technology & Architecture (2015–2016) at Verizon.
Debika Bhattacharya
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer · Verizon Business
Former Chief Technology Officer of Verizon Business (2024–2026), listed at C-Level in Engineering and Technical. Former Chief Product Officer (2022–2024), Senior Vice President - 5G & Enterprise Solutions (2021–2022) and Vice President - 5G & Enterprise Solutions (2020–2021) at Verizon Business.
Earlin George
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director Network Engineering - 5G Edge · Verizon
Sr. Director Network Engineering - 5G Edge at Verizon since 2024 (current); he describes serving as Senior Director of Edge Strategy and Platform Deployment and leading a cross-functional engineering organization. Former Director Network Engineering - 5G MEC platform (2020–2024) and Senior Manager - Design and DevOps (2015–2020) at Verizon.
Eric Lia
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President of Engineering · Verizon
Senior Vice President of Engineering at Verizon since 2024 (current); the profile says he is responsible for Verizon's power, space and cooling infrastructure, access cost strategy, program management of network transformation initiatives, fixed wireless access and technology decommissioning. Former Vice President Network Engineering (2019–2023) and Executive Director Network Capital Strategy & Operations Support (2017–2018) at Verizon.
George Riggins
LinkedInExperience: Vice President - CTO Public Sector Technology · Verizon
Former Vice President - CTO Public Sector Technology at Verizon (2022–2023), where the profile says he led the enablement of forward-looking technologies. His former Verizon engineering roles include Vice President - Engineering East (2021–2022), Vice President - Northeast Access Engineering (2020), Vice President - Core Network Engineering (2017–2020) and Executive Director - Global Data Network Engineering (2014–2017).
Kazi Ahmed
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Cloud Infrastructure and Apps · Verizon
Senior Director, Cloud Infrastructure and Apps at Verizon since 2022 (current); the profile says he leads the engineering team responsible for building, deploying and operating Verizon's cloud infrastructure. Former Director, Cloud Automation (2018–2022), Director, Technology (2017–2018) and Director, Network Engineering Verizon Wireless (2010–2017) at Verizon.
Kazim Guven
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director of Device Technology · Verizon
Sr. Director of Device Technology at Verizon since December 2023 (current); the profile says he leads the 5G Home, Fios broadband, device security and device management teams in Verizon's Technology and Product Development organization. Former Director of Device Technology (2020–2023) and Senior Manager of Device Technology (2013–2020) at Verizon.
Matthew Butz
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering · Verizon
Vice President of Engineering at Verizon since July 2023 (current). Former Vice President Cloud Engineering and Operations (2019–2023), Executive Director Network Implementation (2016–2018), Director - System Performance (2014–2015) and Director - Network Engineering (2012–2014) at Verizon.
Yago Tenorio
LinkedInExperience: SVP & CTO · Verizon
SVP & CTO at Verizon since November 2024 (current), listed at C-Level in Engineering and Technical. Former Director Network Architecture (2021–2024) and Fellow (2021–2024) at Vodafone, and former Chairman of the Board at Lime Microsystems (2021–2024); he has been a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering since 2024.
Choose the right perspective
Match the leader's scope to your question, since a company or business-unit CTO sees technology strategy and vendor choices while engineering VPs and senior directors see how specific networks, platforms and devices are built and run. Check each role's dates so you know whether the person's Verizon experience is current or from an earlier period.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does a large carrier decide which network and cloud technologies to build in-house versus buy from vendors?
- 02What does it take to move a 5G or edge computing platform from trials to production across a national network?
- 03How do a carrier's CTO office and engineering teams set priorities between network cost, performance and new products?
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