Primary Job Title VP Public Policy Primary Organization 
Verizon Wireless
Location Washington, District of Columbia, United States Regions Washington DC Metro Area, Southern US Gender Male
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David E. Young is Vice President for Public Policy at Verizon. Young is responsible for identifying and assessing emerging issues, developing corporate positions on Internet and Technology industry policy matters, and assessing key technology and communications industry trends. He is also responsible for developing relationships with high
technology industry members, technology associations, research institutes, and think tanks. Previously, he was responsible for items before the FCC dealing with broadband and emerging issues. Prior to 2000, he spent six years working in Verizon’s Research and Development (R&D) group on many advanced technologies including VoIP, data network architectures, and audio, video and image compression. He has been awarded ten U.S. government patents for his R&D work. David is a member of the IEEE and IEEE Communications Society. Young holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.
