President Verizon New Jersey
Dennis M. Bone is President-Verizon New Jersey, responsible for all of Verizon's corporate interests in New Jersey.

Prior to the Bell Atlantic / GTE merger, Bone was president and chief executive officer of Bell Atlantic-West Virginia, a position he held since 1995. Prior to that, he was vice president-external affairs for Bell Atlantic-New Jersey.

Bone started his Bell Atlantic career in 1979 as an outside plant engineer for New Jersey Bell. He worked in operations, competitive assessment, rate planning and regulatory matters before being named vice president-external affairs for Bell Atlantic-New Jersey on March 1, 1993.

Bone is a 1973 graduate of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology, with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics. He also has a master of business administration degree in finance and economics from Rutgers University and a Master of Science degree in counseling from The Johns Hopkins University.  He also has been awarded two honorary doctorates.

Bone serves on the Board of Directors of the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce (as well as its Executive Committee), the New Jersey Utilities Association, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Prosperity New Jersey and is chairman of the Regional Business Partnership and New Jersey Reads. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Newark Alliance, Liberty Science Center and the New Jersey Network Foundation. He is Chairman of the West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation. He also served as the Chairman for the 2001 American Heart Association Essex County Heart Walk.