
Verizon has picked erstwhile PayPal caput Dan Schulman to service arsenic its caller CEO arsenic the institution enters its “next phase” of growth, Verizon committee seat Mark Bertolini says successful the Monday announcement. Starting today, Schulman volition regenerate outgoing CEO Hans Vestberg, who volition present service arsenic a peculiar advisor done October 4th, 2026.
Vestberg became the CEO of Verizon successful 2018, wherever helium oversaw the carrier’s 5G motorboat and its expansion. Last year, Vestberg admitted that radical are present holding onto their phones for “way implicit 36 months,” marking an extremity to the “exciting times” of yearly telephone upgrades. He besides led the company’s $20 cardinal acquisition of fibre net supplier Frontier, which the Federal Communications Commission approved aft Verizon committed to “ending” practices related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
After moving successful enforcement positions crossed AT&T, Priceline, Virgin Mobile, and American Express, Schulman was appointed CEO of PayPal successful 2014 pursuing the company’s breakup with eBay. Schulman stepped down successful 2023 and was succeeded by Intuit’s erstwhile main merchandise officer, Alex Chriss. Verizon’s CEO swap comes just weeks aft T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert stepped down, with the carrier’s main operating officer, Srini Gopalan, taking his place.
“We person a wide accidental to redefine our trajectory, by increasing our marketplace stock crossed each segments of the market, portion delivering meaningful maturation successful our cardinal fiscal metrics,” Schulman says successful the property release. “I look guardant to moving with our employees, our regulators, our partners, and the Board to bash the hard enactment it takes to regain our enactment successful our assemblage crossed mobility and broadband.”