D. Blair Crump

D. Blair Crump
Senior Vice President
Premier and International Sales
Verizon Business

Blair Crump is the senior vice president of Premier and International Sales for Verizon Business, a position he has held since November 2006. He is responsible for worldwide sales to Premier, International Retail and International Partner Services customers headquartered in the US, the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific regions. As the leader of a global organization, Crump is focused on growing business with multi-national corporations, particularly from the sales of strategic services, professional services and enterprise integration solutions.

Previous to this position, Crump served as a senior vice president for Verizon Business’ Premier Accounts and was responsible for worldwide sales to the largest global and Fortune 100 customers headquartered in the US, EMEA and Asia Pacific.

Since beginning his career in 1983 as one of the first sales representatives in New York City with MCI, Crump has held positions of increasing responsibilities in sales and marketing and has spent the majority of his career developing commercial successes with large enterprise customers. He played a key role in the growth of MCI’s enterprise business and is credited with signing several of MCI’s all-time largest contracts.

Before Verizon Business’ acquisition of MCI, Crump was senior vice president of Global Accounts. Prior to that, he led the MCI Specialized Services business, delivering technical expertise and client-based solutions in the areas of managed services, hosting, security and contact center services.

Crump’s experience also includes the development and management of supplier and partner relationships, corporate marketing, and US commercial market sales.

A native of Philadelphia, Crump holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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