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Senior Vice President of FTTP
Horizon
Brian has built a new business unit from the ground up, focused on rapidly expanding high reliability 10G symmetrical fiber broadband to communities throughout the Midwest. He previously served in other key executive roles at Horizon, as well as Frontier Communications and Verizon throughout the United States. He has lead operations, engineering, construction, technology, marketing, product development, and has a successful track record of building organizations and businesses with significant experience on the M&A and investor fronts. Outside of work, Brian has a wife and two middle school aged daughters, who all love to travel as a family as much as possible.
Based in Columbus, Ohio, Horizon is a fiber optic broadband carrier operating over 6,500 route miles of fiber in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, and Michigan. The extensive network offers high-speed Ethernet, Dedicated Internet Access, dark fiber, wavelength, cloud communications and data center connection services primarily to business customers. Additionally, Horizon offers 100% fiber optic broadband with symmetrical speeds up to 10G in several residential markets throughout Ohio with a focus on quickly expanding fiber Internet availability to many more communities. Horizon’s entrepreneurial heritage, dating back 125 years, and long-standing commitment to remarkable customer care, ensures its devotion to connecting customers to their worlds through the delivery of cutting-edge fiber optic technology. https://www.horizonconnects.com/
Sharon Vollman | Content Ambassador for ISE EXPO
Sharon Vollman is the Content Ambassador for ISE EXPO. She is passionate about collaborating with thought leaders, SMEs and hard-working doers who design, plan and deploy ultra-reliable broadband networks. Vollman is committed to creating a variety of educational offerings for ISE EXPO attendees that inspire them to connect every U.S. citizen with the broadband networks we all want for our children and grandchildren.
Vollman has created educational partnerships with Broadband Service Providers including AT&T, Verizon, Lumen, Frontier Communications and others. She has covered the telecom industry since 1996.