Nicholas Pascaretti- Executive Director of the Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority.
Nicholas Pascaretti- Executive Director
Mr. Pascaretti is the executive director of Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority, a provider of broadband services on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Prior to being named Executive Director, he was the Director of Network Engineering.
Mr. Pascaretti is an engineer by training who has done extensive work in both outside and inside plant work in telecommunications. He is also a proven talent in business development and sales. The additional experiences that make Mr. Pascaretti so unique are that he has performed both the engineering and sales role at journeyman and executive level in large extensively planned and standards driven companies, small regional companies and startups. The value of those experiences was especially evident at Hudson Valley DataNet where he led a startup organization’s operations and construction while instituting a solid quality and standards process which enabled DataNet to become one of AT&T’s preferred vendors within DataNet’s footprint. Largely due to Mr. Pascaretti’s leadership, DataNet completed an eighty mile overbuild of four telephone and three cable competitors in only eight months of construction. With his assistance and later directing role in sales, DataNet had paying traffic as soon as the ring was lit and became net profitable in 28 months from inception. Achieving true profitability is still almost unique among CLEC companies.
Mr. Pascaretti has extensive background in information technology, telecommunications and engineering. He has over 20 years of managerial and executive leadership in telecommunications and information systems. At Warwick Valley Telephone, a regional incumbent, he served as senior vice president of business sales and operations and director of business development and network operations. His experience ranges from profitably providing small communities with broadband communications to strategic planning for large multinational telecommunication systems.
Mr. Pascaretti has a broad and deep understanding of information systems and enterprise infrastructure that includes telecom, data and integration. His knowledge base is both academic and experiential and comes from designing, developing and deploying these technologies, as well as selling and servicing them. Having been in the field during the emergence and development of the Internet and the advent of truly distributed information systems, he has a strong working knowledge of Web-based solutions, network security, administration and billing systems, and the technologies required to develop and maintain them.
Mr. Pascaretti has been involved with all aspects of IT and telecom including planning cycles, design, sales, and operational development. His extensive experience allows him to see both the production and sales sides of a business on a variety of scales and across multiple verticals, including education, government and healthcare, as well as small business. He has hands-on experience managing stakeholder expectations while negotiating the technical challenges of working with legacy systems and new and emerging technologies.
He has provided consulting services to the communications industry, including detailed engineering, RFP preparation, contract management and negotiations, and construction management.
Mr. Pascaretti attended the State University of New York and Polytechnic University. He has a B.A. in Physics, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, and a M.S. in Information Systems Engineering.