The CEO of Synchronoss Technologies is Pat Doran, appointed to the role in March 2026 following the company’s acquisition by Lumine Group. Doran is one of the original founding technologists at Synchronoss and served as the company’s President and Chief Technology Officer before stepping into the top job.
For a company that has spent two and a half decades building the cloud, messaging, and digital infrastructure that sits behind some of the world’s largest mobile operators, the choice of an insider — and a technologist at that — says something about where Synchronoss thinks its next chapter lies.
Pat Doran: The Current CEO
Doran’s appointment was announced on March 26, 2026, shortly after Lumine Group completed its $116.4 million acquisition of Synchronoss. The deal, announced in December 2025 and closed in February 2026, took the company off the Nasdaq and into Lumine’s portfolio of communications and media software businesses.
Doran arrived at the CEO role with an unusually long runway. He was there at the beginning as a founding technologist, and in the years since he has held senior technical and operational leadership positions — most recently President and CTO — while helping shape the strategy that carried Synchronoss through its pivot to a cloud-first, subscription-based model.
That continuity was central to the rationale. Rather than importing an outside operator to run a newly acquired business, Synchronoss and Lumine elevated the executive who already understood the platform architecture, the carrier relationships, and the engineering roadmap. Doran succeeded Jeff Miller, who stepped down alongside Chief Financial Officer Lou Ferraro when the transaction closed.
A Brief History of Synchronoss CEOs
Synchronoss has had four chief executives in its history. Each transition marked a distinct phase in the company’s evolution.
Stephen Waldis (2000–2017)
Stephen Waldis founded Synchronoss in 2000 and led it as Chief Executive Officer for its first seventeen years. Under Waldis, the company went from a New Jersey startup to a publicly traded provider of activation and cloud services for major carriers, riding the smartphone boom that made device activation and personal-content backup mission-critical for operators.
Waldis built the business around a simple premise: as consumers accumulated more devices and more data, carriers would need a trusted partner to handle the messy work of moving, syncing, and safeguarding it. When he handed over the CEO role in late 2017, he stayed on as Chairman of the Board — retaining founder-level influence over the company’s direction.
Glenn Lurie (2017–2020)
Glenn Lurie became President and CEO of Synchronoss in November 2017, succeeding Waldis. He brought roughly three decades of telecommunications and wireless experience to the role, most of it accumulated at AT&T.
Lurie’s résumé at the time of his appointment was among the most recognizable in American wireless. He had most recently served as President and CEO of AT&T’s Mobility and Consumer Operations, a business unit with tens of millions of subscribers, before retiring from the company in September 2017. Earlier in his AT&T tenure he held a series of senior executive posts — and led the team that negotiated AT&T’s exclusive U.S. agreement with Apple to launch the first iPhone in 2007, one of the defining commercial deals in modern mobile history.
That background made him a natural fit for a company whose customers were the carriers themselves. During his tenure, Synchronoss deepened its focus on three core product lines — cloud, messaging, and digital — and worked to strengthen its relationships with the large operators that drove the bulk of its revenue. Lurie’s carrier-side fluency gave the company a leader who had sat on the other side of the table and knew how operators evaluated vendors, structured contracts, and made platform decisions.
Lurie’s time as CEO ran through September 2020.
Jeff Miller (2020–2026)
Jeff Miller was appointed interim President and CEO in September 2020 and confirmed in the role permanently in March 2021. He was not a newcomer — Miller had joined Synchronoss in 2018 as Chief Commercial Officer, giving him two years of familiarity with the business before taking the helm.
Before Synchronoss, Miller was President of the Technology Group at IDEAL Industries and spent sixteen years at Motorola, most recently as Corporate Vice President and General Manager of North American Operations for Motorola Mobility.
Miller’s roughly five-and-a-half-year tenure was defined by simplification. He oversaw the strategic decision to concentrate Synchronoss on its cloud business — divesting or winding down the messaging and NetworkX segments — in pursuit of a cleaner, higher-margin, recurring-revenue profile. That repositioning ultimately made the company a coherent acquisition target, and Miller departed when the Lumine transaction closed in early 2026.
Pat Doran (2026–present)
Doran’s appointment closed the loop: the company founded in 2000 is now run by one of the technologists who helped build it, operating as part of Lumine Group.
Why the Leadership Question Keeps Coming Up
Synchronoss has attracted a steady stream of “who runs it now” searches, and the reason is structural rather than dramatic. The company has changed shape repeatedly — from activation services to a three-pillar product company to a pure-play cloud business — and each shape has come with a different kind of leader. A founder for the build-out. A carrier veteran for the operator-facing years. A commercial operator for the portfolio cleanup. And now a technologist for life inside a software holding group.
Quick Reference: Synchronoss CEO Timeline
| CEO | Tenure | Notable Background |
|---|---|---|
| Stephen Waldis | 2000–2017 | Founder; later Chairman of the Board |
| Glenn Lurie | 2017–2020 | Former President & CEO, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Operations |
| Jeff Miller | 2020–2026 | Former Synchronoss CCO; Motorola and IDEAL Industries veteran |
| Pat Doran | 2026–present | Founding technologist; former President & CTO |
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the current CEO of Synchronoss? Pat Doran, appointed in March 2026.
Who founded Synchronoss? Stephen Waldis founded the company in 2000 and served as its CEO until 2017.
Is Synchronoss still publicly traded? No. Lumine Group completed its acquisition of Synchronoss in February 2026, taking the company private.
Who was CEO before Pat Doran? Jeff Miller, who led the company from September 2020 until the Lumine acquisition closed.
Sources:
- Synchronoss Appoints Pat Doran as Chief Executive Officer Following Lumine Group Acquisition — GlobeNewswire
- Synchronoss names Doran CEO following Lumine Group acquisition — ROI-NJ
- Synchronoss Technologies Announces Appointment of Glenn Lurie as Chief Executive Officer — Business Wire
- Synchronoss Announces Appointment of Jeff Miller as Permanent CEO and President — GlobeNewswire
- Pat Doran, President and CTO of Synchronoss
