Brian Mefford

Vice President, Broadband
VETRO FiberMap

Brian Mefford will lead the state broadband office+VETRO project team. He is a broadband leader and strategist with 20+ years of experience helping states, communities and ISPs build broadband networks. Medford is vice president of strategy and head of the broadband Practice at VETRO. Formerly, he founded Connected Nation and served as CEO and chairman, during which time he led that firm’s work with many of the nation’s state broadband offices while consulting with the U.S. Congress, the NTIA and FCC on broadband program development and data mapping efforts as part of the State Broadband Initiative and BTOP programs. Additionally, Medord led a national broadband capacity building effort on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has led broadband strategy efforts in 30+ states and hundreds of local communities across the United States and has been invited to consult internationally with numerous governments developing national broadband initiatives. After Connected Nation, Medford applied his leadership as a public servant, as the head of innovation and entrepreneurship for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.