Jeffrey Gavlinsky

Director, Industry Organizations
Calix

Jeffrey Gavlinski, director, industry organizations for Calix, is also the owner and CEO of Mountain Connect LLC, a company facilitating broadband development conferences in Colorado and the Great Lakes region. He also serves as the board of directors marketing chair for the Federated Internet Service Provider Association (FISPA), on the marketing and technology board committees for Fiber Broadband Association, on AMAC board committee for The Rural Broadband Association (NTCA), and Fiber-to-the-Room & 5G for hospitality committees for Hospitality Technology Next Generation (HTNG).

Prior to Calix, Gavlinsky served as the director of emerging technology and innovation for Foresite Group, as the senior director of business development for eX2 Technology and executive consultant to Fujitsu Network Communications as well as owning and operating multiple startup companies focused on telecommunications infrastructure strategic planning for governments, marketing/advertising, and economic development feasibility planning.

Before becoming an entrepreneur, Gavlinsky served, in a consulting role, as senior business architect for Infonet, a British Telecom Company, and had global responsibilities for systems product design and implementation. He also was chief architect for a global Siebel CRM implementation and principal director of international infrastructure merger and acquisition over a two-year period in Europe. He began his career in software development and is a business executive with multi-sector experiences with Fortune 500 as well as startup, small, and medium sized companies.