John W. Diercksen

Mr. John W. Diercksen is the newest Accedian board member. With over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications and technology industry, currently John W. Diercksen serves as a Senior Advisor at Liontree Investment Advisors, as well as, serves on the boards of Intelsat, Banco Popular and Cyxtera.

Mr. Diercksen spent 10 years at Verizon as the Executive Vice President – Strategy, Development and Planning, where he was responsible with many aspects of the company’s business development, corporate strategy, joint ventures, mergers and strategic planning companywide. Preceding to that role, he was the Senior Vice President – Investor Relations for Verizon.

Prior to that, Mr. Diercksen was the Group President – Directory for Bell Atlantic responsible for the corporation’s $2.4 billion print and online dorectories business in the United States.

In his earlier days, he joined NYNEX as Vice President – Finance and Administration for Business Information Systems, where he led all accounting, treasury and human resources functions. He then was named Vice President – Finance and Treasurer for NYNEX’s Telecommunications Group, taking charge of all financial functions. Finally, Mr. Diercksen was named Chief Financial Officer of Bell Atlantic’s Directory Group.

Mr. Diercksen earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Iona College, an MBA from Pace University and has completed postgraduate work in financial management.