Scott B. Laver is executive vice president for Idearc Inc. (NYSE: IAR)
Idearc provides a wide variety of advertising media that connects buyers with sellers when buyers are ready to buy. Idearc's multi-platform products include local search sites Superpages.com® (www.superpages.com) Switchboard.com (www.switchboard.com) and LocalSearch.com (www.localsearch.com); Verizon® Yellow Pages and conveniently sized portable Verizon® Yellow Pages Companion Directories; Superpages MobileSM for both cell phones and BlackBerry®; Solutions At Hand reFresh reCharge reNew and Solutions at Home magazines; and Solutions Direct and Solutions on the Move direct mail packages.
Scott Laver is responsible for ensuring that Idearc provides businesses in the mid-Atlantic southeastern central and western United States with effective local search yellow pages and direct mail advertising tailored to their specific needs. He oversees sales marketing finance and human resources for these markets and manages sales training for all of Idearc. In addition Laver is serving as acting president of Idearc's Internet and market expansion functions.
Before assuming his current position Laver was president of Idearc's mid-Atlantic southeast and central areas. Before that he held several executive positions with Verizon Information Services (VIS) including area president president - Internet division president - Canada/Northwest president and general manager - Canada and vice president/general manager - Texas/Midwest Region.
Laver joined GTE Telephone Operations in 1987 as an accounting supervisor in Florida. He advanced through positions of increasing responsibility including controller for GTE Directories; director international finance mergers and director acquisitions support for GTE Service Corp. in Stamford Conn. He also served as vice president international for GTE Directories.
Laver is a graduate of the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce. |