Dan Schulman
American businessperson, chief executive of Verizon and former president and CEO of PayPal
Daniel H. Schulman (born January 19, 1958) is an American business executive. He is the chief executive of Verizon and former president and CEO of PayPal, and before that group president of enterprise growth at American Express. Schulman was responsible for American Express' global strategy to expand alternative mobile and online payment services, form new partnerships, and build revenue streams beyond the traditional card and travel businesses. Earlier, he was president of Sprint's prepaid group and the founding CEO of Virgin Mobile.
Early life
Schulman was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish parents, and grew up in Princeton, New Jersey with two siblings, a brother Joel Schulman, and a sister, the late Amy Adina Schulman, who died in 1986. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from Middlebury College, and an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business.
His mother, S. Ruth Schulman, was associate dean of Rutgers' Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) from 1974 to 1999. His father, Mel Schulman, was a chemical engineer.
Schulman once told The New York Times, "I was born with social activism in my DNA. My grandfather was a union organizer in the garment district in New York City. My mother took me to a civil rights demonstration in Washington in my stroller."
Career
Schulman began his business career at AT&T, working more than 18 years there and becoming the youngest member of the company's senior executive team.
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