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Greg Richardson
Founder, Managing Partner
Greg Richardson is the founder and Managing Partner for Civitium. Since founding the company in 2004, Greg has served as the lead advisor for Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago and numerous other U.S. and international cities on matters related to community broadband strategy, policy, technology and communications planning.
Prior to founding Civitium, Greg served as the Director of Wireless Consulting for Siemens. His role included managing a team of consultants to deliver wireless consulting services and solutions for Fortune 500 clients. Among other projects, Greg’s team led a project to deploy Wi-Fi technology in more than 7,000 locations in the U.S. and Latin America for a faith-based organization.
Prior to Siemens, Greg served as VP of Professional Services for Wireless Knowledge, a pioneering joint venture between Microsoft and QUALCOMM. Wireless Knowledge developed the industry’s first mobile enterprise platform for delivering email, Intranet and other content to wireless devices. Greg grew the company’s consulting services business from its founding to more than 60 consultants and $10 million in annual revenue over an 18 month period.
Greg also served as VP of Professional Services for Inacom Corporation, a $6 billion IT services company, which was acquired by Compaq (now HP) in 2000. At Inacom, Greg managed a team of more than 130 consultants delivering professional services in a wide range of disciplines, from knowledge management to enterprise messaging to network design and security.
Greg is a leading authority on how communities can apply technology for economic and social benefit. He is a regular speaker at international industry conferences, having spoken and led workshops on 5 continents and more than a dozen countries.
Bailey White
Founder, Managing Partner
Bailey White is a Senior Partner with Civitium where he has advised a wide variety of governmental and telecommunications clients since 2005 including several state authorities and broadband offices, ILECs and CLECs, public safety agencies, and not for profits on broadband related matters. His focus areas include business and technology strategy, fund raising, business planning and strategic sales, procurement and contract management, governmental compliance, and the formation and maintenance of partnerships.
Bailey has always been at the center of innovation. In 1993 he led the development of a hybrid electric vehicle similar to the Toyota Prius today. Shortly afterwards, he joined Hewlett-Packard and led portions of HP’s first e-commerce program before developing one of the companies most sophisticated international supply chains in the US, Western Europe, and Japan. Since then, he has held senior management roles in a variety of startups serving Fortune 500 clients and developed highly successful telecommunications programs and businesses in both rural and urban environments.
Bailey graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelors of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and has led graduate research in large scale broadband network implementations, applications within these networks, and the impact of SMS on communications. Bailey is a regular speaker at leading industry related events.
Jason Shannon
Chief Technology Officer
Jason Shannon has a vast professional history of radio frequency development and optimization in both a structured lab environment and in-market field environments with a thorough knowledge of both theoretical and applied mechanics of wireless networking and radio frequency fundamentals. He has an expert knowledge of past, present and evolutionary product technologies in the wireless broadband ecosystem and a comprehensive technical knowledge of FCC regulatory compliance.
Prior to joining Civitium in 2007, Jason led the wireless technology efforts for the Municipal Networks Division at EarthLink as Lead Wireless Architect. At EarthLink, Jason was responsible for all aspects of radio and wireless systems and the integration of these systems with all other IP/Network and Systems components. Jason was the lead architect and primary wireless engineer for municipal networks in Anaheim, Milpitas, Philadelphia and New Orleans.
Prior to EarthLink, Jason was Founder and Director of Technology for Gnu Technologies, a wireless consulting firm that developed industry-first benchmarking tools for municipal wireless applications and delivered cutting edge engineering and professional services for the burgeoning wireless broadband industry. Jason has a thorough and diverse expertise in wireless broadband that ranges from Research and Development to Architecture and Design to Field Implementation.
Jason has performed over 20 wireless feasibility studies for municipalities including Racine County, WI, Grand Rapids, MI, Franklin, TN, Miami Beach, FL, Alpharetta, GA, and Marietta, GA including technologies such as Wi-Fi (2.4GHz unlicensed), WiMAX (2.3GHz and 2.5GHz licensed), 4.9GHz Public Safety (licensed), 900MHz Public Safety (unlicensed), and point to multipoint and point to point systems across both licensed and unlicensed bands. This includes coordination, feasibility and/or acquisition of licensed spectrum in the following licensed bands: 2.3GHz, 2.5GHz, 3.5GHz, 4.9GHz, 11GHz, 18GHz, 23GHz, 24GHz, 28GHz, 80GHz.
Jason is currently leading projects to design an ultra-dense 4.9 GHz public safety system for a municipality in Texas (fixed video capture and mobile in-car video streaming), and to design a 2,000 square mile wireless broadband system for five rural counties in South Georgia.
Chris Puccio
Principal Consultant
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Tom Grimaldi
Director Latin American Operations
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Tim Schober
Technical Architect
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Josh Mercer
Engineer
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Denise Brady
Associate Partner
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Alberto Garcia-Carmona
Associate Partner
GM for Latin America
Alberto Garcia Carmona is an Associate Partner with Civitium and General Manager of Civitium Latin America. Previously, he served for nine years as Director of General Motors Argentina, managing Public Affairs, Export, Communication and Marketing areas. Mr. Carmona also served as Executive Producer of the Inform Mercosur TV program and Executive Director of Gran Canal TV Productions. His professional career began in the private consulting field for economic projects. He later became partner at Brons & Salas Law Office (Buenos Aires), one of the most prestigious Law firms in Argentina. He is a member of the Board of Directors at the American Bar Association, American Chamber of Commerce of Argentina, Manufacturer Car Association, Junior Achievement Argentina and Chamber of Exporters of Argentina.
Lynda Summers
Associate Partner
GM for Australia
Lynda Summers is an Associate Partner with Civitium and General Manager of Civitium Australia. She is chair and executive director of the not-for-profit telecommunications company CountryTell, which operates the network as a demonstration site for community connectivity options. Lynda is also the deputy chair of the NSW Regional Communities Consultative Council which reports directly to the NSW Premier and the Minister for Rural Affairs in the development of regional policy.
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