Study Group: FTTx (Fiber to the X) Business Trend Experts(?)

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,...

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...

Joseph Holop is an independent Consultant. He was until September 2008 the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Telscape Communications, a competitive local exchange carrier. Mr. Holop was responsible for engineering, network, switching, field operations, IT development and IT infrastructure....

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....

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,...

Bill LaPerch is the President and Chief Executive Officer of AboveNet, Inc., a provider of fiber optical connectivity solutions for business and carriers. He has successfully guided AboveNet through Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and has extensive experience with SOX compliance issues. He has initiated a major...

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...

Mark Roberts is the Principal of WIF-COM Consulting LLC. He was previously the Vice President and General Manager at Signal Hill Telecom Services LLC. He specializes in health and safety solutions both FCC and OSHA, site acquisition, zoning, land use planning, build-to-suit (BTS), backhaul services,...