Leading Experts in FTTx (Fiber to the X) Business Trend Experts

Mark Casey is the President of CFN Services, formerly CSX Fiber Networks, a subsidiary of Fortune 250 railroad operator CSX where he was VP/General Manager of the subsidiary. CFN Services is a telecom infrastructure provider specializing in local access transport and mobile backhaul optimization for...

William Dever is the President at Spark Interactive, a managed service provider. He specializes in deployment of interactive television services in Metropolitan Indianapolis utilizing AT&T Dark Fiber....

William Gewirtz, Ph.D., is the Lead Partner of Communications and Networking at the Market Strategy Group, a management consultancy. He is also the Principal of WLG Consulting, a company providing consulting services to operating and investment entities in the enterprise networking and the telecom sector.

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Sam Greenholtz is the Co-Founder and Principal of Telecom Pragmatics, Inc., a consulting and market research company specializing in the telecom market. He has expertise inc FTTx, optical networking, VoIP, ethernet and wireless technologies including WiMAX, 3G, CDMA and EV-DO. Prior to joining the consulting...

Mike Heller is a senior technology and business consultant to Cisco Systems, and to several other high-tech firms. He is also a former employee of Cisco, where he worked for 8 years. Previously, he has worked at HP, AT&T, Bell Labs, and SBC. Mike has experience in a wide range of network engineering,...

Donald S. Holcombe is an Area Manager of Virginia and Washington D.C. Field Operations with Qwest Communications, an incumbent local exchange carrier. He has twenty two years of experience in the telecommunications field involving equipment design, installation, and maintenance. He is responsible for...

Robert Ingalls served as Executive Vice President & CMO at Verizon (retired 03/07). He was responsible for the Consumer and Small to Medium Business Markets, as well as Operator Services and Public Telephones for the Telecom unit. This included top line revenue accountability for $22B, marketing,...

Bill LaPerch is the President and Chief Executive Officer of AboveNet. He has successfully guided AboveNet through Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and has extensive experience with SOX compliance issues. He has initiated a major strategic overhaul of the company that has allowed it to assume a leadership position...

Jacob Larsen is the Vice President Merger Integration for the Carrier Business Group at Alcatel-Lucent. He oversees the consolidation of Alcatel’s and Lucent’s activities in broadband access, optical networking, carrier routing, wireless networking (CDMA, GSM, 3G UMTS, WiMax, and LTE) and NG networking....

Edward Moran is the Founder of Inforan Int'l Telecom and IT advisory services, a company providing strategic and management consulting and advisory services, macroeconomic research, regional and sector studies, risk and credit assessments, and regulatory and tariff studies for developed and developing...

Stuart Newstead is Chief Executive Officer of Ellare, an independent consultancy. He is a highly respected 25-year senior management record in fixed and mobile telecoms, specializing in wireless data strategies, MVNO, spectrum auctions, triple play, fiber to the home (FTTH/FTTC/FTTN), ICT and convergence,...

Joseph Savage is the Managing Director at Telecom ThinkTank Inc., a telecommunications consultancy. Mr. Savage is also the President of the Fiber to the Home Council, North America, a market advocacy group of 130 high-tech companies. He has more than 30 years of experience in telecommunications networking...

Stephen Sutkowski is the President of Telecom Strategic Visions, a consultant firm. He has working knowledge of business processes (service activation, provisioning, service assurance, and customer care), network functional and performance requirements, evaluation and analysis of suppliers for routing,...

Joby Upton is the President of Upton Consulting and the Pres/CEO of Kabel-X USA. He is experienced in wireline, wireless and emerging broadband services and construction and outside plant engineering. He is knowledgeable in products and broadband services from AT&T, Verizon, Qwest, Century Tel, Windstream,...