Telecommunications
10 Verizon IT leaders
These ten current and former Verizon IT leaders include Verizon's CIO, CIOs of Verizon units such as Verizon Value Brands and Verizon Connect, and IT vice presidents and directors. Readers can learn how Verizon organizes information technology across consumer, business, regional and network infrastructure teams.
Professionals to explore
01—10Anil Chintalapudi
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director, CIO at Verizon Connect · Verizon Business
Former Executive Director, CIO at Verizon Connect at Verizon Business (2021–2023), and Associate Vice President - Network Systems at Verizon since 2025. His other Verizon Business rows include Associate Vice President - Digital & Sales Transformation (2023–2025) and Director, Global Technology Solutions (2017–2021), and his profile cites 25 years at Verizon, including as a divisional CIO.
Chris White
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Information Technology · Verizon
Vice President Information Technology at Verizon since April 2020, a vice president-level role in the Engineering and Technical department based in Irving, Texas. His profile also lists a board role, Director Board Of Directors at Credit Union of Texas, since 2012.
Iyer Kasinath
LinkedInExperience: Director - IT · Verizon
Director - IT at Verizon since 2011 in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, where his profile says he provides a cohesive, broad perspective and champions the value of technology and its ability to integrate and simplify business processes. He was Associate Director - IT at Verizon (1999–2011) and Systems Advisor at CTG (1994–1999).
Joseph Convery
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director - IT Network and Infrastructure Security Governance · Verizon
Sr. Director - IT Network and Infrastructure Security Governance at Verizon since 2025. His other Verizon rows include Director IT Network Security (2025), Associate Director - IT Network and Unified Communication (2019–2025) and Associate Fellow - IT Network and Unified Communications (2010–2019).
Sanjeev Jain
LinkedInExperience: CIO - Verizon Connect · Verizon Business
CIO - Verizon Connect at Verizon Business since 2025, and listed as Chief Information Officer - EMEA at Verizon Business since 2017. His other Verizon Business rows include Global Digital Channels & AI enablement technology leader, CIO for EMEA (2024–2025), Sr. Director - Enterprise Billing (2012–2017) and Group Manager (2000–2012).
Senthil Muthusamy
LinkedInExperience: VP and CIO - Verizon Value Brands · Verizon
VP and CIO - Verizon Value Brands at Verizon since 2024, where he says he leads a global technology organization; his profile cites over 25 years leading large-scale Contact Center and Retail Tech transformations. His other Verizon rows include Vice President - Digital, Retail & Contact Center (2021–2024), Executive Director - Consumer Digital and Retail (Sales) (2019–2021) and Executive Director Digital Transformation (2016–2019).
Stephen G.
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Information Technology · Verizon
Vice President Information Technology at Verizon since 2018, based in Wilmington, Delaware; his profile describes him as a general management professional. His other rows include Director Of Operations at Verizon (2014–2018), Head Of Operations at AT&T (2010–2014) and Senior Product Manager at AT&T (2005–2010).
Sumit Singh
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director - Network Services, IT · Verizon
Former Executive Director - Network Services, IT at Verizon (2012–2021) and Vice President at Verizon since 2021; his profile says he is responsible for the systems used to design, build and maintain networks and services at Verizon, including systems for all RAN and Core Networks. He was also Director - Enterprise Performance Management, IT at Verizon (2009–2012).
Todd Samuels
LinkedInExperience: Director Of Information Technology · Verizon
Former Director Of Information Technology at Verizon (2017–2019), a Director-level Engineering and Technical role in Marietta, Georgia. His other rows include Technical Manager at Avaya (2015–2017), Vice President of Sales at Vickery Technology Solutions (2010–2015) and Sales Application Engineer at AT&T (2000–2005).
Vivek Gurumurthy
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · Verizon
Chief Information Officer at Verizon since August 2026, where he says he leads the global technology organization powering the largest Telecom customer base in the US. His other Verizon rows include CIO - Consumer and Business Groups (2024–2026), SVP and CIO Verizon Consumer Group (2019–2024), SVP - IT (2017–2019) and Vice President - IT (2011–2017).
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Match the person's scope to your question: company and business-unit CIOs suit questions about IT strategy and operating models, while IT vice presidents and directors suit questions about specific systems, security or delivery. Check whether the Verizon role is current or past before asking about recent practices.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does a large carrier split IT ownership between consumer, business and network systems?
- 02What does a business-unit CIO own inside a large telecom company, and how does that role work with the central IT organization?
- 03How should IT security governance for network infrastructure be set up in a large enterprise?
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