Chief Technical Officer, East by North,
and Broadband Consulting
 
For the past couple of years, Jim has been, CTO of East by North working many diverse and worldwide consulting projects for the broadband industry, venture capital, and the law enforcement/security sectors. 

In his thirty plus years in the telecommunications and computing industries, Jim has held technology management positions with such key established industry players as Concentric Network/XO Communications where he was Chief Access Technologist with the formal title of Sr. Director Advanced Networks Services and Technologies, and with startups like "next generation" service provider where he was Founder and CTO, AdEvia, Ltd. His professional experience spans everything from operating system software and computer security to high-speed digital transmission facilities both for the telephony network and the data world.  In this role,  he also functioned as the security officer for the company.

Jim is recognized internationally as an industry expert in various Internet access technologies such as DSL, two-way satellite and wireless, as well as in leading edge security and enterprise applications. He has also been in several senior high security consultative roles including to US federal law-enforcement in the Washington, DC area as well as for Interpol in Lyon, France, both involving Internet security and anti-terrorist technologies and the Virtual Private Networks that support them.

Jim advises some of the most innovative and leading edge entrepreneurial ventures in the industry today, serving on various Board of Directors and Advisory Boards interfacing with management and Venture Capital firms.  He is also active in industry standards-setting, most recently serving on the Board of Directors of the DSL Forum for four years.  He is a frequent chairman, speaker or moderator at tradeshows, conferences, and summits.  A respected Internet technologist in all the emerging technologies such as VoIP (Voice and Video over IP), he is known for his visionary technology leadership and strategy and has been recognized in EE Times as one of the "architects of the next generation of the Internet".