Vice President, External Affairs
Mears Group, Broadband Division
Heather Burnett Gold is the Vice President, External Affairs for the
Mears Group, Broadband Division. In this role she is responsible for
raising the visibility of the Broadband Division throughout the industry
including to key public stakeholders.
Prior to the joining the Mears Group, Gold served as the CEO of HBG
Strategies, a consultancy engaged in broadband education and
marketing targeted to enable fiber deployment among underserved
communities.
A thirty-year plus industry veteran, Gold also served as the
President/CEO of the Fiber Broadband Association, where she led their
public policy efforts and the rebranding of the Association. Prior to that
she was the SVP of External Affairs and Access Management for XO
Communications.
Gold holds BA (magna cum laude) and MA degrees in Economics from
Tufts University and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from
Washington University in St. Louis. Gold also completed the General
Management Program of the Harvard Business School. She was
honored by the Washington Business Journal as one of its 2010
Women Who Mean Business and was recognized by Fierce Telecom as one of its Women of Wireline for 2013
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Sunday, June 12, 2022
1:40pm – 2:30pm
Sunday, June 12, 2022
4:40pm – 5:30pm