Shaygan Kheradpir is a global technology leader who served in CIO

Chief information officer

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 and CTO roles in Verizon Communications

Verizon Communications

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 between 2000 and 2010. In January 2011, Kheradpir was named COO

Chief operating officer

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 of Barclays PLC

Barclays plc

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's global retail banking division.

Kheradpir was among the first to note the effects of commoditization

Commoditization

Commoditization is the process by which goods that have economic value and are distinguishable in terms of attributes end up becoming simple commodities in the eyes of the market or consumers. It is the movement of a market from differentiated to undifferentiated price competition and from...

 on IT, and the corresponding need to orient IT programs around the consumerization of technology

Consumerization

Consumerization is a stable neologism that describes the trend for new information technology to emerge first in the consumer market and then spread into business organizations, resulting in the convergence of the IT and consumer electronics industries, and a shift in IT innovation from large...

, in which consumers, not business, drive technology innovation. At Verizon, he led development of systems and products that created the FiOS

Fíos

Fíos is one of 17 parishes in Parres, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain....

 network, a $20B program that positioned Verizon and the U.S. at the forefront of consumer Internet and interactive services via fiber to the home technology.

In 2007, Shaygan Kheradpir was named to CIO Magazine’s Hall of Fame for early adoption of consumer IT both within the enterprise and for the external market. In 2010, he was appointed to the board of the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology

National Institute of Standards and Technology

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 (NIST), known as the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology. Kheradpir is a member of the Cornell University

Cornell University

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 Engineering Council. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

Electrical engineering

Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...

, has written multiple journal papers, and holds several U.S. patents.