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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-21-245801"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VZ"
cik: "0000732712"
company_name: "VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC"
filed_at: "2021-08-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T12:04:32.913942+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Verizon elects UPS CEO Carol Tomé to board, effective Sept 1, 2021

## Summary
- Carol B. Tomé, CEO of United Parcel Service, Inc., elected to Verizon's Board of Directors effective September 1, 2021.
- Ms. Tomé will participate in standard non-employee director compensation but will not receive the one-time 3,000 share equivalent grant due to prior service in 2020.
- She has not yet been assigned to any board committee.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-21-245801
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VZ
- cik: 0000732712
- company_name: VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC
- filed_at: 2021-08-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732712/000119312521245801/0001193125-21-245801-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732712/000119312521245801/d216962d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-245801.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Carol B. Tomé was elected as director at VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: director
  source text: On August 12, 2021, the Board of Directors of Verizon Communications Inc. (Verizon) elected Carol B. Tomé, Chief Executive Officer of United Parcel Service, Inc., as a director, effective September 1, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732712/000119312521245801/0001193125-21-245801-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.