Metro Connect USA 2024 | Capacity Media | 26 February 2024 | Fort Lauderdale Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa, 3030 Holiday Dr, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316, USA

This premier event unites leadership teams across the US fiber market, including metro, lit, dark fiber, long-haul, subsea, fiber to the home, and fixed wireless access, as well as data centers, cloud providers, wireless communications infrastructure providers, and their investors.

Metro Connect USA is the most important annual touch point for the US digital infrastructure community to renew agreements, build new partnerships, agree financing and M&A deals, and learn about the future state of the industry.

2024 Speakers

Nathan Hazelwood
Chief Development Officer, Cologix

Tom Williams
CEO, Razzle

Pamit Surana
CRO & CAO, Gigapower

James Grice
Partner, Akerman LLP

Brian Daniels
CSO, Zayo Group

Brian Duffner
VP - Connectivity Solutions, Aureon

Kurt Hagerman
Field Chief Information Security Officer, Oracle

Rick Stern
CEO, Stern

Mark Moses
CEO and Founder, CEO Coaching International

Flo Ferroux
Senior Director, Infrastructure Financing, CDPQ

Andrej Danis
Partner and Managing Director, AlixPartners

Jeff Ferry
Board Member, Elea Digital

Gregory Williams
Director, TMT - Cable & Satellite Services, Communications Infrastructure, and Telecom Services, TD Cowen

Mike Alt
SVP, Planning & Engineering, Extenet

Brett Lindsey
CEO, Involta

Chad Crank
Managing Director, Grain Management

Kim Benton
VP Product & Marketing, Frontier

Miles Loo
Vice Chairman, Newmark

Jonathan Restivo
CDO, Cityside Fiber

Ken Fitzpatrick
President and CEO, Everstream

Kenny Gunderman
President & CEO, Uniti Group Inc.

Harold Zeitz
CEO, Ziply Fiber

Philip Macres
Principal, Klein Law Group, PLLC

Michael Morey
CEO, Bluebird Network

Ben Bawtree Jobson
CEO, SiFi Networks

Jamie Earp
CEO, Ubiquity

David Strauss
Principal, Broadband Success Partners

George Templeman
President, Network Access Partnerships, SiFi Networks

Chris Sikora
Chief Revenue Officer, Great Plains Communications

Valtin Gallani
Managing Director, Societe Generale

Kurt Van Wagenen
Chief Executive Officer, Summit Broadband

Brad Moline
President and CEO, ALLO Communication

Charles Cieutat
Partner, Altman Solon

Rashad Kawmy
Founding partner, Boundary Street Capital

Matthew Mooney
Co-President, ON Partners

Cecile Baker
Managing Director, TD Securities

Keith Ponton
Telecoms & Media Cabinet Leader | Director | Sr. Practice Lead | Intelligent Systems, Arcadis

Robert Thomson
Founder & CEO, Underline

Cindy Jia
Director - Sustainable Finance, ING

Andrés Irlando
President & Chief Operating Officer, Zayo

Pim Rothweiler
Regional Head Americas, Managing Director TMT, ING Capital LLC

Tim Piccirilli
Director of Edge Sales Infrastructure, Crown Castle

Patrick Fear
Managing Director, Alliance Bernstein - Private Credit Investors

Kate DeLoach
AVP, ATT

Paul Sunu
Chairman & CEO, Windstream Holdings II, LLC

Kemal Hawa
Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Andy Lipman
Partner, Morgan Lewis

Kerry Haughan
Senior Vice President Commercial Strategy, Calix

Jeffrey Moerdler
Member, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo, PC

Eli Scher
Chairman, OIX

Todd Coleman
Founder, President and CEO, eStruxture Data Centers

Dan Davis
CEO, Arcadian Infracom

Richard Colter
Head of Marketing, Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc

Carrie Charles
Chief Executive Officer, Broadstaff

Robert Napor
Managing Partner, JLA Advisors

Michael Weening
President and Chief Executive Office, Calix

Doug Turtz
CEO, Skywire

Stan Hubbard
Principal Analyst, MEF

Zenita Henderson
Chief Marketing Officer, Segra

Greg Wilson
Founder, Ripple Fiber

James Stegeman
President and CEO, CostQuest Associates

Horace Zona
Managing Director, Head of Telecoms & Technology Americas, Natixis CIB

Daniel Myers
Founder and CEO, DojoNetworks

Nicholas Vantzelfde
US Digital Infrastructure Leader, EY-Parthenon

Alex Ramirez
Senior Managing Director, Guggenheim Securities

Jim Grice
Co-Chair, Energy and Infrastructure Sector Team Chair, Data Centers and Digital Infrastructure Practice, Akerman

Jan Vesely
Partner, EQT Partners

Chris Moon
MD, Credit, Digital Bridge

Vishal Dixit
EVP Wholesale & Chief Strategy Officer, Frontier Communications

Brad Alexander
Chief Technology Officer, DartPoints

Sachit Ahuja
President, Tillman Global

Jeff Quinn
Vice President, Technology and Innovation, Sage Management

Joe Hickey
CEO, ROCK Networks

Todd Holder
Managing Director & Head of US M&A, TD Securities

Colby Cox
Managing Director - Americas. DC Byte

Garrett Baker
Managing Director, Lazard

Taylor Hart
Co-head of the infrastructure practice, Ropes & Gray

Reade Barber
Head, Telco Business Development North America, AWS

Dag Peak
Chief Product Officer, Alianza

Brian Pryor
Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey

Jason ​ Hill
Managing Director, Global Head of Digital Infrastructure, Houlihan Lokey

Bill Long
Chief Product Officer, Zayo

Maria Browne
Partner, David Wright Tremaine

Jiva Jagtap
Senior Managing Director, Leader of Telecommunications, FTI Delta

Josh Snowhorn
CEO, Quantum Loophole

Nadine Hawkins
Editor, Capacity Media

Michael Elias
Vice President, TMT - Communications Infrastructure Research, TD Cowen

James Henry
Senior Managing Director, Bank Street

Ted Mocarski
Senior Partner, Novacap

Brian Stading
CEO, Lumos Fiber

Veneeth Iyengar
Executive Director, Connect Louisiana

Hunter Newby
Owner, Newby Ventures

Kim McKinley
Chief Marketing Officer, Utopia Fiber

Tony Grayson
General Manager, Compass Quantum

Marc Ganzi
CEO, Digital Bridge

Chad Crank
MD, Grain Management

Lyle Neffler
VP of Network Services, Samsung

Veneeth Iyengar
Executive Director, ConnectLA (Louisiana State Office of Broadband Development and Connectivity)

Sachit Ahuja
President, Tillman Global Holdings

Adam Baer
Vice President, BlackRock

Bill Long
Chief Product & Strategy Officer, Zayo Group

Jeff ferry
Board of Directors, NeevCloud AI

Catherine Soik
Director - Market Development, AT&T

Kurt Hagerman
Field Chief Information Security Officer, Oracle

Hunter Newby
Owner, Newby Ventures

Fernando Carvalho
Director, AlixPartners

Rashad Kawmy
Partner/Co-Founder, Boundary Street Capital

Ryan Prinzo
Investor, Devonshire Investors (Fidelity)

Rob Walsh
Managing Director, Fidelity

Gregory Wilson
Mr, Ripple Fiber

2024 Sponsors

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• BankStreet
• Calix
• Windstream Wholesale

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• FTI Delta
• Lumen
• TD
• Uniti
• Zayo

SUSTAINABILITY PARTNER:
• ING

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Alianza
• EY Parthenon
• Frontier
• Guggenheim
• Lazard
• MUFG
• Segra
• Societe Generale
• Spectrum Enterprise

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Cox Business
• Deutsche Bank
• Dojo
• Everstream
• Houlihan Lokey
• Optimum Business
• Oracle
• Ropes & Gray
• Verizon

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Akerman
• AlixPartners
• Alliance Bernstein
• Amdocs
• Arcadian
• Arcadis
• Bank of America
• Brightspeed
• CEO Coaching International
• Citizens
• CoBank
• ConnectBase
• Consolidated Communications
• CQA CostQuestAssociates
• DF&I
• DartPoints
• Davis Wright Tremaine llp
• DC Byte
• Deep Up
• Digital Bridge
• EQT
• Evercore
• Extenet
• Fifth Third Bank
• First Citizen Bank
• Fujitsu
• Glassroutes
• GreenbergTraurig
• Huntington
• JLA Advisors
• Lumos
• Mintz
• Solomon Partners
• Network Connex
• Novacap
• ON
• OneVizion
• PinPoint
• Pomegran
• Capital Markets
• SAGE Management
• SBA
• SummitIG
• Tillman Global Holdings
• Truist HH Securities

COFFEE BREAK SPONSOR:
• Broadband Success Partner