He held senior executive positions at GTE, Verizon, Barclays, and Juniper Networks, where he led various product development, operational and innovation initiatives, and was chairman and CEO of Coriant.
[2] After attending Aiglon College for high school, Kheradpir moved to the United States,[1] earning a bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University[1] where he developed one of the early control algorithms for obstacle avoidance of autonomous robots.
[5] He eventually became chief information officer at GTE Corporation, "earning respect for delivering new products on schedule," according to The Wall Street Journal.
His team of approximately 10,000 staff often worked late hours, but positions at Verizon were in high demand, because of the department's rapid pace.
[1] He negotiated aggressively with vendors to reduce prices and lobbied Verizon to eliminate its policy against purchasing IT equipment being auctioned on eBay by failed dot-com businesses.
[22] He globalized many contract programming positions through creation of Verizon's own software development group in India called VDSI which grew to a multi-thousand force.
The plan included consolidation of product and R&D groups, putting a major emphasis on the market segments of Web 2.0, Cloud-Builder & High-IQ Networks, $160 million in structural cost cuts and returning $3 billion to shareholders over three years by buying shares and increasing dividends.
We made major strides, having implemented a series of initiatives designed to streamline our organization, reduce our cost structure, improve our balance sheet, return capital to our shareholders and drive long-term profitable growth in a challenging revenue environment.
[40] Kheradpir is a member of the Cornell University Engineering Council[41] and on the board of MTN Group, a telecom service provider with 230 million subscribers globally.