2025 Sponsors

  • Bank Street provides insightful and objective advice to help our corporate and institutional clients achieve their financial and strategic goals. We are a private investment banking firm primarily serving growth companies in the communications, media and technology sectors with a comprehensive array of services, including Merger & Acquisition Advisory, Debt and Equity Financing, and Restructuring Advisory. Our senior professionals leverage a combination of extensive transaction experience and deep industry expertise to deliver outstanding results for our clients.

  • Glass Routes is a FTTH platform backing companies building new broadband networks across the Southeastern United States. The company currently supports two fiber network operators, Ripple Fiber, where Greg Wilson serves as CEO, and HyperFiber, led by previous i3 Broadband CEO Dan Kennedy. Glass Routes leverages proprietary software tools to target markets with minimal existing fiber coverage, sufficient density for cost-effective builds, and positive demographic trends. Ripple Fiber and HyperFiber construct and operate the networks, achieving strong customer adoption rates driven by seasoned sales and marketing teams. With over 100 years of cumulative industry experience, the leadership teams at Glass Routes, Ripple Fiber and HyperFiber are well positioned to scale fiber deployment across the region rapidly. Glass Routes is majority owned by Platform Investment Partners’ US Fiber Fund and supported by active and experienced minority investors. Today, the group has more than 60,000 passings, and its equity commitments will see it through its first phase of build to a couple hundred thousand passings.

     

    Greg Wilson is the CEO of Ripple Fiber and a Director of Glass Routes, a FTTH platform focused on backing companies building new networks in attractive end markets. Throughout his multi-decade career, he has built and managed fiber networks and digital network tools across the globe. At Glass Routes, Wilson has developed and refined the proprietary software tools, OSS/BSS and shared services utilized by the platform, which is geared toward the Southeast, due in part to the region’s growth and the ability to build year-round.

  • AlixPartners is a results-driven global consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses respond quickly and decisively to their most critical challenges—from urgent performance improvement to complex restructuring, from risk mitigation to accelerated transformation. These are the moments when everything is on the line—a sudden shift in the market, an unexpected performance decline, a time-sensitive deal, a fork-in-the-road decision. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients until the job is done, and only measure our success in terms of the results we deliver. We partner with you to make the right decisions and take the right actions. And we are right by your side. When it really matters.

  • PMP Strategy is a fully independent strategic management consulting firm, led by 20 Partners, with a team of over 150 specialized consultants and a wide network of expert advisors. They have established themselves as trusted partners to C-suites and investors for various projects, including Strategy & Transformation, Private Equity, Digital, Data & Customer Experience, and CFO Advisory & Integrated Performance CSR-ESG. The depth and breadth of PMP Strategy's sectorial expertise extends to four focus areas: Telecoms, Media & Technology, Transportation & Mobility, Energy & Industry Decarbonization, and Financial Services & Insurance.

     

    PMP Strategy, established in 2003, has eleven offices focused on three strategic regions: Europe (Paris, London, Luxembourg, serving Benelux & DACH, and Brussels), MEA (Casablanca and Dubai) and North America (New York, Seattle, Montreal and Toronto). They build enduring relationships with their clients by working collaboratively to find tailor-made and innovative solutions to the challenges they face. In addition to the firm’s sectorial expertise, their commitment to diversity, people-centricity, and openness are the foundations of their success and remain an integral part of their entrepreneurial practice.