Deborah Kish

VP, Research and Marketing
Fiber Broadband Association

Deborah Kish is the VP, research and marketing for the Fiber Broadband Association. She is also part of the FBA’s workforce development program, which includes a team building OpTIC (Fiber Optic Technician Course), a new FBA certification program. Along with the team, she works with community colleges, vocational schools, high schools and veterans programs to build out a workforce and offer an apprenticeship that will fill a skills gap to help accelerate fiber deployments across North America. Prior to the FBA, she spent over 20 years as an analyst at Gartner covering broadband, telecom switching, signaling and security topics advising thousands of service provider and vendor clients about product and service strategy.