Former Verizon CEO joins board of Tampa firm

Former Verizon Wireless President and CEO Dan Mead has joined the board of directors of Tampa-based mobile communications software firm Syniverse.

Mead led Verizon Wireless from 2010 until his retirement in 2015, following a 37-year career as a mobile industry executive, according to a statement. Mead was one of the founding senior executives of Verizon Wireless in 2000 and was president of the company's Midwest region.

“Dan is a tremendous addition to the Syniverse board, as he brings a wealth of experience and understanding of the business challenges and opportunities faced by today's mobile service providers,” Syniverse Chairman James Atwood says in the release. “He also brings a unique understanding of Syniverse as well, both through his experience of being a customer and from an internal perspective, as he once led operations for the company in the 1990s when it was known as TSI.”