Susan Butta
Vice President - External Affairs
Verizon Maryland

Susan C. Butta is the Vice President, External Affairs for Verizon Maryland. In that capacity she directs community relations, volunteerism and corporate reputation management. She administers the Verizon Foundation and is responsible for local stakeholder management on a variety of subjects.

After beginning her career with C&P Telephone Company in Washington in 1979, Butta has held positions of increasing responsibility throughout the corporation.   As Marketing Product Manager for New England Telephone in Boston, she introduced a then, little-known product – Caller ID – to the New England community.  In 1997, she was named director of public affairs for the NYNEX Government Relations team in Washington.  In that capacity she directed the company’s internal and external communications with state and federal regulators, legislators and the Administration.  

Butta serves on the Board of Directors for Catholic Charities in Baltimore, the University of Maryland Medical System Foundation Board, the Partners in Excellence Board and is vice chair of the Board of Visitors at the University of Maryland University College.

A Maryland native, Butta graduated from the University of Maryland and later completed an executive leadership program at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.