CPR Selects Verizon And Verizon Chief Legal Officer Vandana Venkatesh For Corporate Leadership Award

New York, NY – The International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR), a global non-profit organization that helps others manage conflict so that they might better pursue their purpose, announced that Verizon and Vandana Venkatesh, Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer for Verizon, will be the recipients of its 2025 Corporate Leadership Award for leadership in dispute prevention and resolution.

The award, presented annually since 2004, honors corporations and general counsel that have demonstrated commitment to the field of dispute management and have institutionalized dispute management mechanisms into their corporate culture.

As Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, Vandana Venkatesh is responsible and has oversight for all Legal and Corporate Security functions for Verizon. Before assuming this role in October 2022, she was Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Verizon Consumer Group, which serves more than 100 million consumers evert day. She has been with Verizon for two decades.

Prior to joining Verizon, Venkatesh was a lawyer with Genuity and an Associate at the law firms of Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton and Bingham Dana, where she was counsel to internet, high tech, and biotech startups. She earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She also earned both a master’s and bachelor’s degree from the University of California – Los Angeles.

“Verizon’s use of alternative dispute resolution processes demonstrates its adaptability in a dynamic and rapidly evolving legal landscape. This flexibility and resilience undoubtedly allow its business leaders to fully focus on and achieve its core business purpose, thus resulting in Verizon’s growth and current position as the largest wireless carrier in the U.S.,” said Serena K. Lee, President & CEO of CPR.

Past recipients of CPR’s Corporate Leadership Award include Amgen, AT&T, ConocoPhillips, CVS Health, DuPont, EY, General Electric, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Pfizer, Qualcomm, Visa, and 3M.

The award presentation will take place on May 29 at Guastavino’s in New York City. This annual dinner draws attendees representing leading companies and their general counsel and other company leadership, partners from global and boutique law firms, and industry experts and scholars who come together to acknowledge the importance of dispute prevention and resolution.

For more information visit the 2025 Corporate Leadership Award Dinner page on cpradr.org.

ABOUT CPR:
Established in 1977, CPR is an independent nonprofit organization that promotes the prevention and resolution of conflict to better enable the pursuit of purpose through the CPR Institute and its subsidiary, CPR Dispute Resolution Services LLC.

The CPR Institute builds capacity for dispute prevention and resolution through the thought leadership of its diverse members – companies, leading mediators and arbitrators, law firms, individual practitioners, and academics – who share best practices and develop innovative tools for dispute management through committee discussions and projects, publications, education and training, and hosting events.

CPR Dispute Resolution is a boutique provider of leading-edge dispute management services – mediation, arbitration, custom appointing services, a panel of dispute prevention specialists, and more – that leverages resources generated by the CPR Institute. The case administrators are responsive, efficient, and detail oriented, and have extensive backgrounds in alternative dispute resolution (ADR). The Panel of Distinguished Neutrals is a carefully curated, diverse group of prominent, experienced subject matter and ADR professionals based in 35 countries. And CPR Dispute Resolution’s Complete Case platform, a holistic end-to-end digital environment designed for ADR, handles matters efficiently and securely. To learn more about CPR Dispute Resolution, visit drs.cpradr.org.

To learn more about CPR, visit cpradr.org.

ABOUT VERIZON:

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) powers and empowers how its millions of customers live, work and play, delivering on their demand for mobility, reliable network connectivity and security. Headquartered in New York City, serving countries worldwide and nearly all of the Fortune 500, Verizon generated revenues of $134.8 billion in 2024. Verizon’s world-class team never stops innovating to meet customers where they are today and equip them for the needs of tomorrow. For more, visit verizon.com or find a retail location at verizon.com/stores.

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