Randy Kinsey, Jack Burton, David Strauss and Jay Rolls (L to R)
Jack Burton and David Strauss founded BSP in 2017. In 2021, Jay Rolls joined us and is the Chief Technology Officer. In 2022, Randy Kinsey started. In 2023, Jeffrey Burgan and Rick Guerrero came on board. Misty Duckworth joined in 2024 and Kim Morrow in 2025.

Jack Burton is a co-founder and Principal of BSP. Specializing in broadband access technologies, Mr. Burton has a wide range of technical expertise across a diverse range of telecommunications technologies. Jack held senior engineering positions at Altice, Cablevision, and Lightpath. He has also worked at Viacom/MTV Networks, Tribune/United Cable and Warner Amex Cable. Mr. Burton was Chairman of the CableLabs PacketCable Certification Board from 2011 to 2017. He authored a quarterly column for Broadband Library magazine.

David Strauss is a co-founder and Principal of BSP. David has a proven track record launching and growing B2B telecommunications and technology businesses. Mr. Strauss held senior marketing positions at Lightpath, IBM, Sprint and AT&T. At Juniper Networks, he was the cable business development leader. Mr. Strauss had a long-term consulting engagement at Comcast Business – having designed and executed the original go-to-market plan for their Metro Ethernet services.

Jay Rolls is the Chief Technology Officer of BSP. Mr. Rolls was the SVP & Chief Technology Officer of Charter Communications from 2011 to 2019. Previously, he served in a variety of roles during 13 years at Cox Communications including SVP of Technology. He was also an executive at Excite@Home, Pacific Broadband, Alcatel and BBN (now part of Level3/Lumen). Mr. Rolls has 25 years of telecom experience. Industry vet Jay Rolls drops in on telecom’s surging M&A wave

Randy Kinsey, a Project Director of BSP, is a data center expert. He led the design, construction, and operation of Charter’s 100,000 sq ft engineering facility which includes a dedicated 25,000 sq ft data center built, maintained, and operated as a production environment. Mr. Kinsey was Group VP of Network Engineering & Architecture at Charter, Executive Director of Networking Engineering & Architecture at Cox, and VP of Advanced Engineering with Point Broadband.

Misty Duckworth, Project Director at BSP, is a data center expert – having led the operations of financial services and telecom data centers. Ms. Duckworth has over 23 years of experience. She directed Engineering and Network Operations initiatives at Charter. At Ting, she developed the Enterprise and MxU
(FTTU/FTTP) Program.

Rick Guerrero is a Project Director at BSP. As a leader at Cox Communications, Mr. Guerrero directed fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) projects, including an xPON overbuild in Phoenix, AZ. He also redefined major metro rebuilds with a focus on capital management and standards adherence, while also leading significant product and technology launches.

Jeffrey Burgan is a Project Director at BSP. He has over 30 years of service provider experience. Mr. Burgan joins us after 12 years at Google where he led Google Fiber’s network engineering, operations & deployments. He was also responsible for various wireless initiatives including LinkNYC. Mr. Burgan was also an executive at M2Z Networks and Excite@Home.

Kim Morrow is a BSP Project Director. She has 20+ years of Mission Critical experience in the data center and semiconductor sectors. She is an expert in data center design, construction, power, operations, and sustainability. She served as the Data Center Facilities Director at Experian, and as the Global Facilities Data Center Strategist at Dell.
For certain engagements, BSP will add an expert with deep knowledge and experience in a different area. For example, an OSS/BSS expert has contributed to projects.
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