{"id":990394,"date":"2026-02-07T08:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990394"},"modified":"2026-02-07T08:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:57:29","slug":"verizon-consumer-division-chief-sowmyanarayan-sampath-departing-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/07\/verizon-consumer-division-chief-sowmyanarayan-sampath-departing-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon consumer division chief Sowmyanarayan Sampath departing company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Verizon on \u2060Thursday said its consumer division chief Sowmyanarayan Sampath is stepping down, as the U.S. wireless carrier mounts \u200ca \u200cturnaround effort under its new CEO Dan Schulman. <\/p>\n<p>Sampath had \u200cheaded the consumer unit since March 2023 and will remain until March 31. Verizon said in a statement its chief transformation officer, Alfonso Villanueva, will serve as interim CEO of Verizon Consumer Group. <\/p>\n<p>In \u200cNovember, Verizon \u200dsaid it would cut \u200d13,000 jobs and convert 179 corporate-owned retail stores \u200cinto franchised operations. Villanueva joined Verizon in November after previously working with Schulman at PayPal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Verizon on \u2060Thursday said its consumer division chief Sowmyanarayan Sampath is stepping down, as the U.S. wireless carrier mounts \u200ca \u200cturnaround effort under its new CEO Dan Schulman. Sampath had \u200cheaded the consumer unit since March 2023 and will remain until March 31. Verizon said in a statement its chief transformation officer, Alfonso Villanueva, will serve as interim CEO of Verizon Consumer Group. In \u200cNovember, Verizon \u200dsaid it would cut \u200d13,000 jobs and convert 179 corporate-owned retail stores \u200cinto franchised operations. Villanueva joined Verizon in November after previously working with Schulman at PayPal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}