Vandana Venkatesh’s compensation package totaled $7.4 million for 2025, according to Verizon’s proxy statement filed Monday. She has been in her current role since October 2022, though she wasn’t listed among the company’s top-paid executives until last year.
Venkatesh has been with Verizon since 2003 and was deputy general counsel in the company’s consumer group before becoming chief legal officer. Craig Silliman held Verizon’s top lawyer spot before Venkatesh and was paid more than $8.6 million his final year on the job, when he also took on ...