Jonathan Nikols

Jonathan Nikols is the Senior Vice President, Global Enterprise Sales, Americas for Verizon Business. He leads a team focused on delivering meaningful outcomes for enterprise customers leveraging innovative technologies such as 5G, mobile edge computing (MEC), cloud, security, and software-defined networking.

With deep industry expertise, Jonathan has a true understanding of how outcome-based solutions and the strategy that goes into deployment creates sustained growth and prosperity for customers.

Prior to joining Verizon, Jonathan was the Senior Vice President, Global Head of Services and Solutions at Hewlett-Packard – a role in which he reinvented the business model from hardware only to a data-driven “as a service” offering utilizing customer insights and market intelligence. Jonathan also led the end-to-end Services and Solutions Specialist teams encompassing Pre-Sales, Pursuit, Customer Success, Professional Services functions and the Practice and Sales Management teams.

Previously Jonathan held leadership positions at companies such as Polycom, NCR, Avaya and AT&T. Jonathan has led global solution sales organizations for more than two decades that focus on solving customer business problems delivering meaningful customer outcomes through transformational business models.

Jonathan served on multiple advisory boards focused on Managed Services, Value Selling Principles, Artificial Intelligence and Data Management. These organizations include the Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA) and the Ecosystems Value Creation Advisory Board.

Jonathan and his family reside in the greater Chicago area, where he spends time volunteering as a youth mentor through sports and engages in local community service organizations.

Jonathan received his Bachelor of Science, Business from Illinois State University.