It certainly wasn't Hans, but I only know him and Dan. What about the ones before?
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With Dan as CEO it's so onvious the Board failed in having a succession plan. Just compare the BOD when Ivan was CEO to the Hans/DEI personally selected BOD.
The better question is who was the CEO with best results and accountable Board.
Ivan/Board.
@ht Surely, you can't be serious...
Ivan + infinity
He was a leader. I don't even remember the guy after him and then Lowell was such a disappointment. Scandy dude was fun-ish but just marginally better than Lowell. Ivan was the man and well respected by most of us.
@OP Leslie Nielsen
It's nice to see Lowell sneaking in here to post a comment,the only reason I know it was Lowell is that nobody else on the planet would have said Lowell!
Bill Clinton
@e8 Ivan, a Vietnam Vet, started as a Splicers Helper.
Alexander Graham Bell
Ray Smith, look him up, way ahead of his time,
I'm just glad I can read this thread while being presented with a sidebar ad for a dr-g that can help your ge----l psoriasis. But don't get me started on all the apparent side effects.
Chuck Lee, the guy before Seidenberg, who was aiiight.... that's how long it's been.
Ivan by far. Ousted due to age limits at the time. His predecessor Chuck was a nothing-burger, sold GTE for a payout.
Lowell put VZ into massive debt with his divestitures used to buy failure after failure.
Then came Hans, Mr 5 G!!
Ivan grew up in the company, field tech(?) up the CEO.
Ivan. It was shame he got ousted by lowell. That individual is was the worst this corporation and it's various historical iterations has seen since Bell secured his patents. Tiger man is just a butcher.
Denny
Lowell and beyond have been disasters
@d7 ...........so far.
@ay you really need to put a "/s" after that. Lowell made terrible business decisions that we are still not rebounded from, and was horrible to the craft.
Ivan Seidenberg was the best CEO this company has had.
@bj not commenting on the current leadership but factually churn is down, there is no delusion. There are mitigating factors as to why, but again factually it is down. You have numerous resources to verify that
Ivan. No question.
sam bankmam fried would really boost the price, even from prison. or why not martin shrkeli? ken lay’s corpse might even be better….dan schulman, what an uninspiring pick. a move to tank the stock.
@ab churn is down? What delusional fairy tale land are you in?
I would say Dan
He has cleared the house.
Did anyone realize how long some of these svps have been on their positions. Some for over 15 years .
15 years *800k plus bonuses
Some ceo while VZ was still partnered with Vodafone.
Stop dreaming, we are not google or Microsoft, who actually shows with real new products.
Ivan no doubt
@ab check the stock, back to where it was before Dan. Financial engineering and RIF can show off savings at any company, no new sustaining so called AI Poem brought anything new to Vz.
@ab If you knew to say more than the name, you knew you were wrong.
Lowell
IVAN for sure
Tommy Callahan.
Ivan
@a9 sp. -1
Good ceo? Dan seems to be doing a good job. Stock is up and churn is down.
He's not liked because he keeps cutting folks but I feel like it's been self inflicted. We lost our numero uno spot to TMO and ATT.
@OP easy. Ivan.
Ivan seinberg