Talents Peak places C-suite and VP leadership across US fiber networks and data center infrastructure, for the operators building the assets and the capital financing them. Retained, sector-only, built on relationships, not a job board.
The people who can actually take a fiber network or a data center platform from funded to built to profitable are few, and they’re already building someone else’s.
Private capital put $194 billion into telecom infrastructure last year alone, alongside tens of billions more into data center construction. Every take-private, every platform acquisition, every buildout milestone creates a leadership gap somewhere. Sometimes it’s a Chief Growth Officer to scale go-to-market, sometimes a VP of Construction to hit passings targets, sometimes a CEO to take a platform through its next capital raise.
We work one sector. We already know who is thriving, who is quietly ready to move, and who your competitors are about to lose. When a seat opens, we’re not starting a search. We’re making an introduction we’ve been building toward for months.
| Company | Leadership | Segment |
|---|---|---|
| WOW! (WideOpenWest) | Frank van der Post, CEO | $1.5B take-private, DigitalBridge & Crestview |
| Fidium Holdings | Gaurav Juneja, President & CEO | Searchlight Capital-backed |
| Uniti Group | Kenny Gunderman, President & CEO | Publicly traded fiber infrastructure |
| Wire 3 | Jai Ramachandran, CEO | $550M+ raise |
| GoNetspeed / Greenlight Networks | Richard Clark / Mark Murphy, CEOs | Oak Hill Capital-backed |
| Brightspeed | Tom Maguire, CEO | Multi-state FTTH buildout |
| Metronet | T-Mobile joint venture | 21 states, FCC-verified footprint |
| Cable One | Jim Holanda, CEO | Public (NYSE: CABO) |
| Company | Scale | Segment |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix | 57 tracked sites, 11 states | Carrier-neutral colocation |
| Digital Realty | 74 tracked sites, 12 states | Carrier-neutral colocation |
| DataBank | 46 tracked sites, 18 states | Carrier-neutral colocation |
| Vantage Data Centers | DigitalBridge & Silver Lake JV | $6.4B investment |
| Aligned Data Centers | NVIDIA, Microsoft, BlackRock | $40B acquisition, Oct 2025 |
| CyrusOne | 33 tracked sites, 11 states | Carrier-neutral colocation |
| QTS Realty | 36 tracked sites, 13 states | Blackstone-owned |
Platform-level leadership through buildout and scale.
Go-to-market and subscriber-growth leadership.
Live-network and facility performance leadership.
Buildout leadership against passings or capacity targets.
Capital-raise and infrastructure-fund-facing finance leadership.
Permitting, interconnection and BEAD-program-adjacent leadership.
Network and facility architecture strategy.
M&A sourcing, platform integration, and de novo growth.
Deal and operating-partner talent for infrastructure funds.
Fiber and broadband operators, data center developers and colocation platforms. Leadership hired to hold, not just to start.
The private capital financing network and facility buildouts. Deal teams, operating partners, and the leadership they place into new platforms.
Tell us the seat and the situation. We’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right fit before we take the engagement.
Or reach us directly at david@talents-peak.com