Speakers

As Senior Vice President, Global Enterprise Sales, Americas for Verizon Business, Jonathan Nikols leads a team focused on delivering meaningful outcomes for enterprise customers leveraging innovative technologies such as 5G, mobile edge computing (MEC), cloud, security, and software-defined networking. Nikols’ deep industry expertise gives him an understanding of how outcome-based solutions and deployment strategies can create sustained growth and prosperity for customers. Prior to joining Verizon, Nikols was the SVP, Global Head of Services and Solutions at Hewlett-Packard – a role in which he reinvented the business model from hardware only to a data-driven “as a service” offering. He also led the end-to-end Services and Solutions Specialist teams encompassing Pre-Sales, Pursuit, Customer Success, Professional Services functions and the Practice and Sales Management teams.

Nikols also held leadership positions at companies including Polycom, NCR, Avaya and AT&T. He has led global solution sales organizations for more than two decades that focus on solving customer business problems delivering meaningful customer outcomes through transformational business models.