Janet Brumfield
Director, Corporate Communications
Verizon
@janet_brumfield
Janet Brumfield is a veteran PR professional who has worked to promote some of the world’s most admired brands including Verizon, MCI, CompuServe, DSW, Shell and Stanley Steemer. A results-oriented professional who strives for excellence, Janet has won a number of industry awards throughout her career, including the Herme Awards-Platinum for the PR campaign “Verizon Business: Open for Business Worldwide” and the PR News Platinum award for crisis communications for her work on Y2K while at UUNET. An early PR pioneer in the Internet space, Janet currently serves as director of corporation communications for Verizon’s B2B unit, where she has been instrumental in establishing new programs and initiatives, including positioning the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) as the gold standard in cybersecurity research and incepting the company’s enterprise social media program.