Verizon’s know-how management lineup continues to alter as Adam Koeppe, chief community officer for core engineering and operations, introduced he’s leaving the corporate on the finish of this 12 months.
Koeppe, a veteran community govt with a 26-year profession at Verizon, stated on LinkedIn that “it is time to transfer on to the following chapter” and that he can be stepping away from his function.
“Whereas there’s a quiet satisfaction in closing this chapter, I’m equally excited for what lies forward,” he wrote, however didn’t trace at what his subsequent transfer is perhaps.
He described his profession in constructing and working Verizon’s networks as “a unprecedented and humbling journey” and signed off his leaving observe with reward for the corporate. “My confidence in Verizon’s future stays excessive,” he stated.
His departure is the most recent govt exit since Dan Schulman took over as CEO final October and one other change to the highest know-how staff.
Koeppe was appointed to his present place lower than a 12 months in the past in December 2025 to steer the newly mixed core engineering and operations group with a deal with “community excellence.”
He was one in every of a brand new trio of chief community operators promoted on the identical as a part of a reorganization of the provider’s community know-how staff amid mass layoffs of greater than 13,000 staff. Together with Koeppe heading up core operations, Srini Kalapala was named senior VP to steer wi-fi networks, and Lynn Cox was named senior VP and head of fiber networks.
Since then, the provider revealed in June that Joe Russo, govt VP and president of worldwide networks and know-how, is retiring within the first quarter of subsequent 12 months after 30 years on the firm. He can be changed by Abdu Mudesir, who abruptly left his place as head of product and know-how at Deutsche Telekom in March.
Verizon’s client CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath resigned and left the corporate on the finish of March this 12 months. Sampath has since been appointed CEO of Zayo and began his new function final month.
Making means for extra change
Roger Entner, founder and analyst at Recon Analytics, views the manager modifications happening at Verizon as indicators of a “generational shift” and an organization “in transition” beneath the brand new management of Schulman.
The individuals who have left are “on the proper age to retire,” however that does not essentially imply “sitting in a rocking chair and watching the sundown,” he stated.
Koeppe appeared to nod to a brand new cohort of know-how leaders in his LinkedIn publish with a shoutout for Verizon’s Management Improvement Program. The interior coaching initiative goals to assist “rising expertise put together to take the following step of their management journey,” and has had 300 individuals within the final ten years.
“I can be enthusiastically rooting for the V–Staff (particularly all our Management Improvement Program staff members),” he stated.
Koeppe began his profession in 1994 as a customer support consultant for Bell Atlantic Nynex Cellular. He joined Verizon in 2000 and rose by means of varied senior know-how and community roles. He led know-how technique, structure and planning as senior VP till the top of 2025 earlier than taking on as head of core engineering and operations.
He’s leaving the provider forward of the arrival of Mudesir who will take duty for networks, platforms and know-how. Mudesir will be part of CTO Yago Tenorio in Verizon’s know-how management who made the same trans-Atlantic transfer to the US from Vodafone in October 2024.
Schulman stated of Mudesir in his June letter to staff that he’s “a acknowledged pioneer in Open RAN, cloud infrastructure, and AI-driven community automation; applied sciences which are crucial to our subsequent chapter of development.”
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