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.”

Syniverse, which process transactions for more than 1,500 mobile service companies, has 2,400 employees worldwide and had $861.5 million in revenues last year.