James Salter

James Salter is founder and Chairman of AEG (www.aeg.cc), a design & build firm specializing in Fiber to the Home projects, particularly for new market entrants and electric utilities. Since its formation in 1996, Atlantic Engineering Group has been involved in 52 City Wide FTTH projects, representing 2,600,000 homes passed and 50,000 miles of fiber optic plant. Prior to founding AEG, and after graduating from Georgia Tech with an Electrical Engineering degree, James spent 15 years in the electric utility business and was the President of an electric utility at the founding of AEG.

James is also the former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Fiber Broadband Association (www.fiberbroadband.org) an industry trade group whose mission is to promote fiber to the home as the ultimate access technology.