Randy Kinsey, Jack Burton, David Strauss and Jay Rolls (L to R)

Jack Burton and David Strauss founded BSP in 2017. In 2021, Jay Rolls joined us and is the Chief Technology Officer. In 2022, Randy Kinsey joined us as Project Director. In 2023, Jeffrey Burgan, Rick Guerrero and Mike Giobbi joined us as Project Directors. In 2024, Misty Duckworth joined us as Operations Manager.

Jack Burton is a co-founder and Principal of BSP. Specializing in broadband access technologies, Mr. Burton has a wide range of technical expertise across a diverse range of telecommunications technologies. Jack held senior engineering positions at Altice, Cablevision, and Lightpath. He has also worked at Viacom/MTV Networks, Tribune/United Cable and Warner Amex Cable. Mr. Burton was Chairman of the CableLabs PacketCable Certification Board from 2011 to 2017. He authored a quarterly column for Broadband Library magazine.

David Strauss is a co-founder and Principal of BSP. David has a proven track record launching and growing B2B telecommunications and technology businesses. Mr. Strauss held senior marketing positions at Lightpath, IBM, Sprint and AT&T. At Juniper Networks, he was the cable business development leader and a Comcast account manager. Mr. Strauss had a long-term consulting engagement at Comcast Business – having designed and executed the original go-to-market plan for their Metro Ethernet services.

Jay Rolls is the Chief Technology Officer of BSP. Mr. Rolls was the SVP & Chief Technology Officer of Charter Communications from 2011 to 2019. Previously, he served in a variety of roles during 13 years at Cox Communications including SVP of Technology. He was also an executive at Excite@Home, Pacific Broadband, Alcatel and BBN (now part of Level3/Lumen). Mr. Rolls has 25 years of telecom experience. Industry vet Jay Rolls drops in on telecom’s surging M&A wave

Randy Kinsey, a Project Director of BSP, is a data center expert. He led the design, construction, and operation of Charter’s 100,000 sq ft engineering facility which includes a dedicated 25,000 sq ft data center built, maintained, and operated as a production environment. Randy was Group VP of Network Engineering & Architecture at Charter, Executive Director of Networking Engineering & Architecture at Cox, and VP of Advanced Engineering with Point Broadband.

Jeffrey Burgan is a Project Director at BSP. He has over 30 years of service provider experience. Mr. Burgan joins us after 12 years at Google where he led Google Fiber’s network engineering, operations & deployments. He was also responsible for various wireless initiatives including LinkNYC. Mr. Burgan was also an executive at M2Z Networks and Excite@Home.

Rick Guerrero is a Project Director at BSP. As a leader at Cox Communications, Mr. Guerrero directed fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) projects, including an xPON overbuild in Phoenix, AZ. He also redefined major metro rebuilds with a focus on capital management and standards adherence, while also leading significant product and technology launches.

Mike Giobbi is a Project Director at BSP. Mike was the CTO of Armstrong Cable, an FTTH trail blazer. He was promoted to CTO in 2006 following seven years as the VP of New Technologies. Mike has experience in building networks via Public-Private Partnerships. He has used CAF2, RDOF and ACAM funds to construct systems. To learn more about his PPP background and guidance for State Broadband Offices, please click here.

Misty Duckworth, Manager of Operations at BSP, is a data center expert – having led the operations and maintenance of financial services and telecom data centers. Misty has over 23 years of telecom experience, starting at Time Warner Cable.  At Charter, Misty directed various Engineering and Network Operations initiatives.  Most recently, she developed the Enterprise and MxU (FTTU/FTTP) Program at Ting Internet.

For certain engagements, BSP will add an expert with deep knowledge and experience in a different area. For example, an OSS/BSS expert has contributed to projects.

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