Kamran Ziaee is Senior Vice President, Technology Strategy and Planning at Verizon’s GTS organization. His team’s mission is to create the GTS functional roadmap and strategy, based on long-term business priorities and industry trends; develop and scale global resource management and delivery functions; and strategically ensure consistent prioritization, planning, and execution across project portfolios.

Kamran is a senior global technology and operations leader and business visionary; maximizing organizational productivity through innovative technology solutions, building best-in-class teams, setting the strategic focus, and delivering beyond expectations. He has led game-changing business strategies and initiatives while leading high-performance technology and telecommunications teams. A passionate leader that motivates and builds strong teams, both onshore and offshore, to achieve a sense of shared purpose and operational excellence, while positively impacting the bottom line.

Previously, Kamran serve as Chief Information Officer at CenturyLink, the second largest enterprise telecommunications service provider in the United States. He led the digital transformation of the company’s legacy platforms. In addition, he led the Diversity program for Women in STEM across the firm. Prior to joining CenturyLink, Kamran held Executive leadership positions at Liberty Global family of companies, including CTO of Ziggo in the Netherlands, CIO and Head of Customer Operations at Unity Media and European CIO of NTL (Virgin Media).

Kamran has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and a Master's in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the Ohio State University. He also has an MBA from New York Institute of Technology. He is multilingual, being fluent in English, French and Persian, and proficient in German.