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TAMPA — Michelle Robinson, who was Verizon's Southeast regional president here since 2008, is being transferred to Atlanta in what is described as an internal corporate shuffling.
Driving the move is the addition of Texas and Oklahoma to the communication giant's now 11-state Southeast region. Robinson, 43, and her small staff, whose overall job responsibilities are not changing, will be the only ones making the move this summer to what is considered a more central location. In both her old and new roles, Robinson oversees the parent company's legal, public policy and philanthropy organizations.
The move will not change Verizon's sizable footprint in the Tampa Bay area, spokesman Bob Elek said. That's because most of the company's 9,000 bay area employees will continue to report to Jeanmarie Milla, regional operations president of Verizon's telecom consumer and business services units. And the leaders of Verizon's statewide wireless service unit will remain anchored in Tampa.
"We're not going anywhere," Elek said.
Based in Basking Ridge, N.J., Verizon, which was created by the mergers of GTE and several offshoots of the Bell system 12 years ago, has not really had a traditional regional headquarters in Tampa since the companies were combined, Elek said. Robinson and the last of Verizon's regional management team moved out of the City Center downtown in 2010 as the company continued to consolidate offices from rented facilities to property it owns.
Mark Albright can be reached at albright@tampabay.com or (727) 893-8252.
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