Welcome to the Fiber Broadband Association’s “Where’s The Funding?” series. WTF is a free-to-attend 12-part webinar series to help members understand, navigate, and obtain matching funds for broadband grants.

Welcome to the Fiber Broadband Association’s “Where’s The Funding?” series. WTF is a free-to-attend 12-part webinar series to help members understand, navigate, and obtain matching funds for broadband grants.

Welcome to the Fiber Broadband Association’s “Where’s The Funding?” series. WTF is a free-to-attend 12-part webinar series to help members understand, navigate, and obtain matching funds for broadband grants.

Welcome to the Fiber Broadband Association’s “Where’s The Funding?” series. WTF is a free-to-attend 12-part webinar series to help members understand, navigate, and obtain matching funds for broadband grants.

Welcome to the Fiber Broadband Association’s “Where’s The Funding?” series. WTF is a free-to-attend 12-part webinar series to help members understand, navigate, and obtain matching funds for broadband grants.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to identify the right sources of capital for your business and how to structure them to secure the necessary funding. We’ll even discuss the pros and cons of different sources of capital, so you’ll have all the information you need to make an informed decision.

Broadband providers will leave Episode 3 of our “Where’s the Funding” series with better insights on how to structure the capital invested in your companies, and you’ll be empowered to make the most of your business opportunities. Join us to gain the insight you need to master the capital stack.

Serial entrepreneur and investor David Hartin joins us for Episode 3 of “Where’s the Funding?” Hartin brings more than 25 years of telecom experience to the role of President at ITC Holding Company.

Prior to joining ITC, he founded and led Notora LLC. Notora is a services company that specializes in small cell and distributed antenna system networks for cellular, public safety, and private LTE networks. David sold Notora to Centerline Communications in 2019 and continued to run the company as CEO until 2021.

Welcome to the Fiber Broadband Association’s Where’s The Funding? WTF is a free-to-attend 12-part webinar series to help members understand, navigate, and obtain matching funds for broadband grants.

Episode 2 will welcome Evan Feinman, who serves as director of BEAD for the NTIA. Before joining the NTIA, Evan served the Commonwealth of Virginia as the governor’s chief broadband advisor for nearly four years, from 2018 to 2022.

As the governor’s chief broadband advisor, Evan was given the tasked with ensuring that Virginia met its ambitious goal of universal access to broadband by 2024.

Virginia has laid a roadmap that many states have since sought to emulate. From developing a robust broadband map, to creating its broadband toolkit, Virginia’s efforts helped to establish many of the policies and procedures that are now considered to be best practices in ensuring states are able to evaluate the scope of their served, underserved, and unserved populations.

During his time at NTIA, Evan has encouraged vigorous engagement between grantees and the communities they serve. He has made it clear that engaging stakeholder communities will directly contribute to the success (or failure) of an applicant’s grant. He has also emphasized the importance of dialogues between internet service providers and state broadband directors. Under Evan’s leadership, the NTIA has also appointed regional directors that can assist states and communities as they navigate the BEAD application process.