Managing Principal: Jay Cuthrell is a strategic technology consultant with Cuthrell Consulting, LLC (cuthrell.com) and frequent industry speaker based in Research Triangle Park, NC and Missoula, MT. His focus is serving clients that are telecommunications service providers, startup companies, and investment groups. He has held CTO, VP, and GM roles at Digitel Corporation and NeoNova (an Azure Capital and Bridgescale Partners portfolio company) and infrastructure consulting roles working both domestically and internationally for Fortune 500 clients. He also served at Scient (iXL), Nortel, Analysts International, IBM, and NCSU College of Engineering. He holds a BS in Materials Science and Engineering from North Carolina State University and grew up in Beaufort, NC. His on again off again personal blog since 1997 can be found at fudge.org and he is @qthrul on Twitter and elsewhere.