I speak to executives who approve technology decisions they cannot personally audit.
I have run the same company since 1995, and I am building fiber into towns that have never
had it. Both jobs make me accountable for the advice I give.
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Signature talks
Three talks, adapted to the room
What to spend your one budget cycle on
Draft copy — talk not yet confirmed
keynote · board session · 45 min
For CEOs, boards, and owners of companies that carry real technology risk and have no full-time technology staff to hand it to
How to tell which of your technology problems will actually cost you money, and which ones only score badly on a report
A way to compare a security purchase against a hiring decision using the same numbers
What to ask a vendor after they have told you the price
Building on a public deadline
Draft copy — talk not yet confirmed
keynote · 45 min
For Association and industry audiences, economic development groups, and executives whose work now depends on infrastructure someone else has to deliver
What changes about a project when the deadline is public and the money is federal
How to hold a subcontractor to a schedule you do not control
Why the communities that get service last are the ones the market priced correctly and the policy priced differently
Adopting AI without betting the company on it
Draft copy — talk not yet confirmed
keynote · half-day workshop · 45 min
For Executive teams deciding where AI goes first, and what they are willing to put into someone else's model
Which decisions to make before a pilot, because they are expensive to reverse after one
Where your data goes when an employee pastes it into a tool you did not buy
A way to judge a vendor's AI claim without a technical evaluation
Awarded federal broadband funding across multiple states to build fiber in rural communities that have never had it — one of the larger rural buildouts awarded to an independent operator.
Hundreds of miles of network under construction, reaching communities measured in hundreds to low thousands of addresses.
Accountable for construction timelines, subcontractors, and federal compliance milestones, not just for opinions about them.
Awarded funding is not revenue and not yet built network. No dollar figure appears on this
site by design — it would be stale within a quarter.
Book
The CEO's Digital Survival Guide
Written for the executive who has to approve technology decisions without the background to evaluate them, and who will own the outcome either way.
A sub-four-hour marathon in all fifty states, and Ironman. Same thesis as the network
build: long time horizons, and systems that hold up under stress.
Sub-four finish · 0
Finished, above four hours · 0
Scheduled · 0
Remaining · 50
The same record as a table
Fifty-state record: no verified sub-four-hour state finishes recorded in this repository yet.
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Available for keynotes, workshops, and board sessions.