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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