Brian Lippold

President
Casco Bay Advisors, LLC

Brian Lippold is president of Casco Bay Advisors, LLC, a telecommunications and broadband consulting firm located in Gardiner, Maine. Lippold specializes in developing broadband feasibility studies for state, county and locally funded broadband expansion initiatives (150+ Maine communities to date), with an emphasis on facilitating and implementing public/private partnerships. Casco Bay also provides network planning, engineering, make-ready project management and construction management services for service providers and government funded networks.

Prior to establishing Casco Bay Advisors in 2012, Lippold served as EVP/COO of Integra Telecom, a Portland, Oregon, based CLEC providing services across the western third of the United States. Over the course of his 30+ years in the telecom industry, he has held key executive leadership roles, including SVP network planning and engineering for FairPoint Communications, where he built and led the business, government and wholesale sales channels across northern New England; SVP of state government, research and higher education sales at Level 3; VP carrier services at TelCove and general manager of Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri for TelCove. His early telecom career was devoted to various engineering and operations leadership roles within the long distance industry.