John Stratton
Executive Chairman
Committees:
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Key Skills and Experience:
- Senior Leadership: Held several senior roles at Verizon including COO, CMO, and EVP and President of Global Operations, before retiring in 2018. Brings experience in rapidly scaling and transforming businesses worldwide and a diverse background in consumer and business markets within one of the world’s leading telecom, media, and technology firms.
- Value Creation and M&A: Led Verizon’s Wireless business through a significant restructuring that resulted in a 380-point margin expansion in three years and optimized the company’s wireline portfolio through approximately $14 billion in divestitures and $5 billion in acquisitions.
- Finance & Accounting: Held full P&L responsibility at Verizon, including all established businesses and 140,000 employees globally; generated more than $120 billion in annual revenue.
- Commercial / Consumer Markets: Led Verizon’s corporate marketing group and its consumer and business product management organizations, with recognition by Ad Age magazine as the No. 2 global “power player” in 2009.
- Education: Advanced Management Program, Harvard Business School.
Career Highlights:
- Verizon Communications Inc.
- Executive Vice President and President of Global Operations (2015 – 2018)
- Executive Vice President and President, Global Enterprise and Consumer Wireline (2014 – 2015)
- Executive Vice President and President, Verizon Enterprise Solutions (2012 – 2014)
- Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Verizon Wireless (2010 – 2011)
- Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer (2001 – 2010)
Public Company Board Experience:
- General Dynamics Corporation (2020 – Present)
- Abbott Laboratories (2017 – Present)
Private Company Boards and Other Memberships:
- SubCom, LLC (2019 – Present)
- National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) (2012 – 2018)
- Presidential appointment to advise the White House on technology issues related to national security and emergency preparedness