Thursday, July 24, 2014

Lowell McAdam: Verizon CEO

Lowell McAdam was born in 1954 in Buffalo, New York. He went to Cornell University and earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering. Lowell earned his MBA from the University of San Diego. He worked for six year in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps and qualified as a licensed professional engineer in 1979.

From 1983 to 1993 Lowell held a number of executive positions with Pacific Bell.  This included being area vice president of Bay Area marketing and general manger of South Bay customer services.  He then joined AirTouch in 1993 as executive director of international applications and operations. Lowell has served as vice president-international operations for AirTouch Communications and was lead technical partner for cellular ventures in Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Italy, Korea and Japan.

Lowell was president and CEO PrimeCo Personal Communications, a joint venture between Bell Atlantic and Vodafone AirTouch. He then held various executive positions at Verizon Wireless since it was formed in 2000 and was named president and CEO from 2007 until he was promoted to COO of Verizon.

After serving as president and COO, Lowell became CEO of Verizon on August 1, 2011 and chairman on January 1, 2012.


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