How 5G technology could revolutionize government communications

Mike Maiorana is senior vice president, public sector at Verizon Enterprise Solutions. In this role, he manages a team of sales, engineering and sales support personnel, and is responsible for sales and customer satisfaction for public sector customers across the U.S. Verizon is the leading provider of communications services to the U.S. federal government, and offers a broad portfolio of intelligent networking, mobility, business communications, managed services, Internet of Things (loT) and cybersecurity solutions to the public sector.

Previously, Maiorana was president of the Washington-Baltimore-Virginia region for Verizon Wireless, with responsibility for sales, marketing, customer service, retail stores and the expansion of the company's wireless network.

Prior to that, Maiorana was vice president of national government sales and operations at Verizon Wireless, where he led sales and customer service for federal, state and local government customers, including those in law enforcement, public safety and municipalities.

Maiorana began his career in 1990 as a sales representative and moved on to assignments of increasing responsibility, including regional director of corporate and government accounts, director of retail sales, and director of sales operations and training. He is a five-time winner of the Verizon Wireless President's Cabinet award for sales achievement.

He is currently serving a second term as a member of the board of directors of the Northern Virginia Technology Council. He also serves on the Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore USO board of directors since 2013.

Maiorana earned a Master of Business Administration in finance from Montclair State University, and holds a bachelor's degree in marketing from Rutgers University.

Nicholas Nilan is the Director of Product Development for Public Sector at Verizon. He is responsible for the development and deployment lifecycle of innovative and mission impacting products and solutions for Federal, State and Local, and Education customers. Previously, he led Federal Marketing strategy at Verizon, and before that, engineering teams supporting mobility and Internet of Things deployments in the Department of Defense. He has been in the telecommunications industry for over 15 years and holds an MBA in Finance and Accounting from Regis University and an undergraduate degree in Political Science from York College of Pennsylvania. Additionally, he is on the Board of Directors for the Public Safety Technology Alliance and the Board of Directors and the Chair of the Emerging Technology Working Group for AFCEA DC.

John Gilroy has been a member of the Washington D.C. technology community for over twenty years. In 2007 he began weekly interviews on Federal News Network called “Federal Tech Talk with John Gilroy.” His 428 interviews provides the basis for profitable referral business. In 2009 he created a successful breakfast club of previous radio guests called The Technology Leadership Roundtable. He has been instrumental in two of his guests forming their own radio shows: Derrick Dortch with “Fed Access” and Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm with “Women in Washington.”

In 2011 he began teaching a course in social media marketing at Georgetown University; in March of 2014, John won the Tropaia Award for Outstanding Faculty. John conducts monthly corporate training for large companies on how to leverage social media to generate revenue.