Marc Reed is executive vice president - Human Resources for Verizon, a position he has held since April 2004. Reed is responsible for establishing overall Verizon policy and strategy related to compensation, benefits, labor policy, executive staffing, diversity, safety/environment and ethics. He is a member of the Verizon Operations Council and Verizon Corporate Council.

Under Reed’s leadership, Verizon has garnered numerous citations and awards, including being #1 in Diversity Inc. Magazine’s “Top 50 Companies for Diversity,” and making CEO Magazine’s “Top 20 Companies for Leaders” and Business Week’s “Best Places to Launch a Career.”

Beginning in 2000, Reed was vice president - Human Resources for Verizon Wireless, where he was instrumental in establishing the performance-based culture that helped propel the company into being the best-performing wireless company today.

Reed started his career in Human Resources at GTE's World Headquarters in 1986. The following year he was appointed to the first of a series of key human resources executive positions at GTE Wireless.  In 1997, he became the vice president - Human Resources for GTE Communications Corporation.

Reed earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo.