Bret Westwood

Mr. Westwood currently serves as Chief Technology Officer. In his current role, he provides strategic leadership over Technology, Network Deployment and Program Management. Previously, he held the title of SVP of Network Deployment and Operations.

Mr. Westwood has led engineering, construction and operations efforts for internet service networks since 1997 and wireless networks since 2004. Prior to coming back to Rise, Mr. Westwood managed the Network Deployment and Operations activities for Google Fiber in Utah (Salt Lake City and Provo). Mr. Westwood has also served as Vice President of Network Deployment for Vivint Wireless. In this role he pioneered high throughput fixed wireless deployment strategies utilizing small/micro cell architectures with unlicensed spectrum. Before Google and Vivint, Mr. Westwood had served a range of posts for Rise from 2006-2014. These posts included Network Manager, Operations Manager and VP of Technical Operations. He has worked at Rise for a total of 10 Years and was one of Rise’s earliest employees.

Mr. Westwood holds two degrees from the University of Utah. These include an MBA and a Masters in Arts in English.