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With over 15 years of telecommunications, wireless and real estate experience, Jim Ross joined Optasite, Inc. in 2003 as its President and Chief Operating Officer. In January, 2006, Jim was appointed Optasite’s Chief Development Officer where he is responsible for leading the growth of the Company’s portfolio of telecommunications towers through both development and acquisition. Jim is involved in all aspects of Optasite’s growth, including the development of strategic initiatives with wireless carriers, providers of new and next generation wireless technologies, allied service providers and other owners and operators within the industry. He joined Optasite from Concourse Communications Group, LLC, where he was a founder and President of Business Development.
At Concourse, Jim drove the Company’s new business growth, helping to make Concourse the leading developer and operator of in-building distributed antenna systems in the nation’s largest transportation venues, including New York (LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark Airports, the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, the New York/New Jersey Port Authority Bus Terminal and PATH train stations), as well as international airports in Detroit, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh and Toronto.
Prior to building Concourse, Jim co-founded National Telecommunications Advisors, LLC, New York Telecom Partners, LLC and Wireless Acquisitions, Inc., all companies focused on the development of wireless infrastructure in various parts of the nation. While at NTA, Jim directed the development of one of the nation’s first independently built, multi-carrier tower projects, which was sold to American Tower in 1997. Jim currently serves on the Board of Directors of Optasite’s joint venture with Trillion, Optasite-Trillion, LLC. In recent years he has also served on the Board of Optasite, the Concho Cellular One Telephone Company, Concourse Communications Group, LLC and on the Board of Trustees of Daniel Webster College in Nashua New Hampshire. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Scantic Valley YMCA and has served on the advisory boards of both Broadwave, Inc. (now Tatara Systems) and Architextures, Incorporated. | 