Bill Dodd

CEO
Gigamonster Networks

Bill Dodd serves as co-founder and CEO of GigaMonster Networks, a Barings and Blackstone company. GigaMonster is one of the nation’s leading and fastest growing fiber-based Internet providers to multi-tenant and mixed-use communities, operating in over 50 major U.S. markets. Under Dodd’s direction, GigaMonster developed and launched its industry leading Universal Access Network® designed for tenants, owners and managers of multifamily communities and commercial buildings with available Internet speeds of 10 Gbps and higher.

Dodd previously served as chairman and CEO of DIRECPATH, which he grew to become the nation’s number one Internet provider in the multifamily private cable operator industry. He also served as president and COO of Biltmore Communications, where he led the company’s strategy to launch the nation’s first IPTV offering in a multifamily community. As a pioneer in IPTV, Dodd’s efforts led the nation in multifamily IPTV deployments until he sold the company to DIRECPATH in 2007.

Dodd has served on numerous boards and associations throughout his career, including chairman and president of the Atlanta Harvard Business School Alumni Association. He led the effort to found Georgia Institute of Technology’s Alternative Energy Institute. He received his bachelor of engineering summa cum laude from The Georgia Institute of Technology and his MBA from Harvard Business School.