Business Chief Magazine July 2026 | Page 52

TOP 10 | CEOs in Telecoms 01

Dan Schulman

Company: Verizon Revenue: US $ 138.2bn Founded: 1983
A CEO with extensive tenure in transformational success at large companies, Dan’ s industry expertise is informed by his time working across several financial and operational roles throughout the telecoms, technology and financial industries. Before joining Verizon, Dan served as President and CEO at PayPal, where he transformed the platform, tripling the company’ s revenue to US $ 30bn and attracting hundreds of millions of customers across the globe. He also held key leadership roles at several leading public companies including AT & T, Virgin Mobile UA and American Express, furthering each brand’ s revenue and technology strategies. Dan has received acclaim for his leadership throughout his professional career, appearing on Fortune’ s list of the World’ s Greatest Leaders and consecutively named three times on Fortune’ s list of the Top 20 Businesspersons of the Year.
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