Michael B. Roddy has served as Vice President of Marketing since 2004. Mr. Roddy has over 20 years of telecommunications and cable TV experience. From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Roddy was Senior Vice President Corporate Development for GLA New Ventures, a telecommunications-industry software sales and management consulting firm, and successor-company of Brooks Fiber Properties. Mr. Roddy worked extensively on the Verizon Media Ventures acquisition with Knology. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Roddy was the President, Chief Operations Officer, and co-founder of Everest Connections, a broadband service provider offering bundled voice, video, and data services in competition with the incumbent MSO in Kansas City. He is also past President of USLink, a Minnesota-based CLEC offering local, long distance, and Internet services to business and residential customers. He held a variety of leadership positions in over 10 years with TDS TELECOM in the areas of business development, from1995 to1996 initiating TDS TELECOM’s foray into the competitive telecommunications business, as well as regulatory affairs and inter-company settlements from 1989 to 1995. Mr. Roddy’s prior experience also includes positions with Contel Corporation and Fidelity Investments. |