Daniel Keoppel, a 15-year veteran of the US-based telecommunications company, has led its corporate venturing for the last 11 years.
Keoppel was previously at rival US-based telecoms company AT&T’s mergers and acquisitions department, where he also controlled its then corporate venturing unit AT&T Ventures Corporation.
He also held various finance positions with Lucent (then AT&T) Consumer Products. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and has an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He serves as a board observer at various Verizon Ventures’ portfolio companies – Ethernet company Cenx, Skyfire, a cloud computing company which was sold to search engine company Opera Software, internet-of-things company Bug Labs, network virtualisation company ConteXtream, electronic coupons company Cellfire, mobile marketing company Zoove, mobile internet company Flash Networks, location-based service company Loopt and mobile predictive analytics company Medio Systems.