Biography

Mr. Mudge has served as a director of Unitek Global Services, a privately-held engineering, construction and customer operations telecom services company, since 2018.  From 2021 to 2023, Mr. Mudge served as Chief Executive Officer of Connect Holding LLC, doing business as Brightspeed Communications, a privately-held telecom and Internet service provider with operations in 20 states.  From 2020 to 2021, he served as a director of Windstream Holding, Inc., a provider of voice and data network communications to businesses in the U.S.  

Mr. Mudge spent the bulk of his professional career (1983 to 2017) with Verizon Communications, Inc., serving in positions of increasing responsibility and culminating with seven years as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President.   In this role, he directed the transformation of traditional telco operations into a fiber-based platform serving more than 20 million homes and businesses and retrained Verizon’s workforce to meet new demands and requirements.  

Mr. Mudge holds a B.S. degree in management from North Adams State College, a M.B.A. degree from Suffolk University and a professional certificate in telecommunications technology from Northeastern University.