Global Capacity has added Tony Thakur to its executive leadership team as CTO.
An industry veteran and Ethernet champion with extensive data network engineering and operations experience, Tony is responsible for all aspects of Global Capacity’s One Marketplace network strategy, architecture, engineering and planning.
Tony has over 25 years of experience in telecommunications engineering, including network design, architecture, planning, deployment, capacity management and sales engineering. He most recently held the position of vice president of engineering & technology for TelePacific Communications, where he provided strategic direction, technology selection and product development support for next-generation services including IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) wide-area Ethernet. Tony also held executive positions at CENX and tw telecom.
“Tony is a proven leader with an impressive record of implementing and managing advanced telecommunications networks and technologies; we look forward to leveraging that experience at Global Capacity,” said Jack Lodge, president of Global Capacity. “His track record will be invaluable as we continue to invest in our next-generation network services, expand our Ethernet architecture and deliver cloud-enabling services and technologies.”
“I am excited to join such an innovative technology company. Global Capacity is expanding its network footprint and reach, and its commitment to connectivity made simple is disrupting the status quo of legacy networks,” added Thakur. “I look forward to playing a transformative role of evolving a first-rate network and delivering telecommunications services and solutions that empower network, application, cloud service providers and business customers.”
