Skip to main content
VerizonExecutive hire

Verizon Elects Charles Phillips to its Board of Directors

What happened

Verizon has elected Charles Phillips, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Recognize Partners LP, to its Board of Directors.

Source

Article excerpt

Highlighted: the sentence this signal was extracted from

NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) today announced the election of Charles Phillips, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Recognize Partners LP ("Recognize"), to the Verizon Board of Directors, effective immediately. "Charles is an accomplished leader with distinctive experience in technology, financial and regulatory environments," said Dan Schulman, Verizon CEO. "We look forward to his perspective and contributions on the board to help us innovate faster, delight our customers and drive sustainable, long-term value for our shareholders." With the addition of Mr. Phillips, the Verizon board consists of 10 directors with a broad mix of perspectives and expertise. Mr. Phillips has served as Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Recognize, a private equity firm focused on investing in technology services businesses, since January 2020. Prior to Recognize, Mr. Phillips was the Executive Chairman of Infor, Inc., an enterprise software application provider, from 2019 to 2020 and Chief Executive Officer from 2010 to 2020. He served as President of Oracle Corporation from 2003 to 2010 and as a Managing Director in Morgan Stanley's Technology Group from 1996 to 2003. Mr. Phillips also served as Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. Mr. Phillips holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy, an M.B.A. from Hampton...

Keep reading with a free account

The rest of this article, and every signal for Verizon, is in your free account.

Extracted by Autobound

From the Signal API record
Event
Executive hire

What this signalsA new leader often reviews the tools the team uses.

Person
Charles PhillipsBoard of Directors
Takes effect
Sep 29, 2026
Location
New York, New York, United States

More executive hire signals at other companies

The full record

From the Signal API record

People

  • Charles PhillipsBoard of Directors · Named in the story

Topics and mentions

Job title tags

  • directors

Extraction

Confidence
95%
Detected
Sep 29, 2026
signal_type
news
signal_subtype
hires

Use this data

Get every executive hire signal for Verizon and the companies you sell to, in the tools you already use.

  1. Ask Claude about it

    Connect Autobound to Claude, Claude Code or Cursor with MCP. Then ask: “What changed at Verizon this week?”

  2. Send it to your own tools

    The Signal API returns executive hire signals for any list of companies as JSON, for your CRM, warehouse or app.

  3. Try it free

    Sign up and spend your free credits on the companies you sell to.

    Start Free1,000 free credits

The API returns more than this page shows

This page shows a preview. The full news record in the Signal API and MCP can also have these 8 fields. Some fields are empty for some signals.

Company

  • linkedin_urlValue in the API
  • industriesValue in the API
  • employee_count_lowValue in the API
  • employee_count_highValue in the API
  • revenueValue in the API
  • descriptionValue in the API

Signal

  • signal_nameValue in the API
  • associationValue in the API
Show the full JSONThe record on this page and the API request

GET /v1/signals/387dce06-a23b-fae0-c22a-d49110cfa2f8 returns this record as JSON. POST /v1/companies/enrich returns every signal for verizon.com.

{
  "signal_id": "387dce06-a23b-fae0-c22a-d49110cfa2f8",
  "signal_type": "news",
  "signal_subtype": "hires",
  "detected_at": "2026-09-29T20:30:00+00:00",
  "company": {
    "name": "Verizon",
    "domain": "verizon.com"
  },
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/09/29/3371348/0/en/verizon-elects-charles-phillips-to-its-board-of-directors.html",
    "title": "Verizon Elects Charles Phillips to its Board of Directors",
    "contact": "Charles Phillips",
    "excerpt": "NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) today announced the election of Charles Phillips, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Recognize Partners LP (“Recognize”), to the Verizon Board of Directors, effective immediately. “Charles is an accomplished leader with distinctive experience in technology, financial and regulatory environments,” said Dan Schulman, Verizon CEO. “We look forward to his perspective and contributions on the board to help us innovate faster, delight our customers and drive sustainable, long-term value for our shareholders.” With the addition of Mr. Phillips, the Verizon board consists of 10 directors with a broad mix of perspectives and expertise. Mr. Phillips has served as Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Recognize, a private equity firm focused on investing in technology services businesses, since January 2020. Prior to Recognize, Mr. Phillips was the Executive Chairman of Infor, Inc., an enterprise software application provider, from 2019 to 2020 and Chief Executive Officer from 2010 to 2020. He served as President of Oracle Corporation from 2003 to 2010 and as a Managing Director in Morgan Stanley’s Technology Group from 1996 to 2003. Mr. Phillips also served as Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. Mr. Phillips holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy, an M.B.A. from Hampton...",
    "summary": "Verizon has elected Charles Phillips, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Recognize Partners LP, to its Board of Directors.",
    "location": "New York, USA",
    "planning": false,
    "image_url": "https://ml.globenewswire.com/Resource/Download/2a0c6c7a-3980-4c97-a719-a463817cf3f6",
    "job_title": "Board of Directors",
    "confidence": 0.95,
    "published_at": "2026-09-29T20:30:00Z",
    "location_data": [
      {
        "city": "New York",
        "state": "New York",
        "region": "Northern America",
        "country": "United States",
        "continent": "Americas",
        "fuzzy_match": false
      }
    ],
    "effective_date": "2026-09-29",
    "job_title_tags": [
      "directors"
    ],
    "article_sentence": "Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) today announced the election of Charles Phillips, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Recognize Partners LP (“Recognize”), to the Verizon Board of Directors, effective immediately."
  }
}

Long text fields are shortened on this page.

Looking up one signal by its id is free. Enrich costs 2 credits per signal returned; a call with no results is free.