Anthony Lewis is a senior technology executive with over 38 years of experience assisting a publicly held technology company grow its businesses worldwide. Anthony’s career reflects a demonstrated track record in leading successful large‐scale transformational initiatives, growing a P&L business unit, extensive public policy and regulatory leadership and experience in sales, engineering and network planning. He also brings a variety of leadership experience from his work on a variety of non-profit boards, including audit, finance and two roles as Chairman.
Currently, Anthony is Vice President, Public Policy, East, North East and Central, Verizon, one of the world’s leading providers of technology and communications services. Headquartered in New York City and with a presence around the world, Verizon generated revenues of 133.6 billion in 2021. Anthony assumed this position in October 2011 and his responsibilities include shaping and advancing Verizon’s public policy initiatives for the wireline, wireless and enterprise business segments in 25 east coast and mid-west states. He also directs Verizon’s philanthropic activities for these states.
Prior to this position Mr. Lewis served as vice president of Wholesale Development and Operations for Verizon Wireless. He was responsible for executing a startup business which included directing the pricing, activation, billing, distribution, device specification, testing, communications planning and financial matters for the business. He led the growth of the wireless wholesale business by 400% over 4 years.
Anthony started his career in the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia, now Verizon Virginia, in 1986 as a group manager in the operator services department and has held a succession of positions with increasing responsibilities in product line management, traffic engineering and planning, sales, regulatory, public policy and marketing
Anthony serves on several non-profit boards including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Johns Hopkins University Cary School of Business, Big Brother Big sisters of NYC and the Washington Nationals Philanthropies. Mr. Lewis also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of KIPP DC (a network of high-performing, public, college-preparatory charter schools which serves under-resourced communities in Washington DC). He previously served as chairman of the board for the Greater Washington Board of Trade and the DC Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Lewis graduated from Elizabeth City State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in business in 1986. He furthered his education at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business in their Leadership Development Program and the Johns Hopkins Leadership Development Program in 1996. He obtained his MBA from the Johns Hopkins University in 2000.