Verizon Executives
Shaygan Kheradpir
Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Verizon Communications
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Shaygan Kheradpir, Ph.D., is executive vice president and chief information officer for Verizon Communications. He is responsible for the information technology initiatives of all Verizon’s business units.
Prior to assuming his present responsibilities effective Jan. 1, 2007, Kheradpir was senior vice president and chief information officer for Verizon Telecom, with oversight of all information technology initiatives for the company’s wireline communications unit. Kheradpir led technology development and innovation for key Verizon initiatives, including developing and implementing the systems supporting the rollout of Verizon’s all-fiber network and the FiOS broadband voice and TV services provided over that network.
Kheradpir began his communications career with GTE in 1987. In 1994 he became vice president – GTE Labs, where he directed the company’s Software Systems Lab, and later directed the information technology initiatives for the company’s enterprise and eBusiness units.
Kheradpir is a member of the Cornell University Council, as well as a member of the Cornell University Engineering College Council. He is also on the Board of Directors of the YMCA of Greater New York. In 2007 CIO Magazine named Kheradpir a distinguished member of the CIO Hall of Fame, for significant contributions to business and society through leadership in the development, management and use of information technology. Kheradpir is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers, and the National Academy of Engineers selected him as one of the nation’s 85 outstanding young engineers in 1996. From 1992 to 1994, he was an adjunct professor of electrical engineering at Northeastern University. Kheradpir has written more than 20 journal papers and holds several U.S. patents.
Kheradpir earned a bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University.
October 2007
