WISPA Hires David M. Zumwalt as the Association's New President and CEO

WISPA hired David M. Zumwalt as President and CEO of the Association, effective June 1, 2022.  Zumwalt will oversee the Association’s strategic and daily affairs, including staff for advocacy, membership, policy, and events. Prior to arriving at WISPA, Zumwalt served as the Chief Operating Officer of Broadband VI, a major ISP in the US Virgin Islands offering fixed wireless and fiber-connected services, where he was recruited to prepare the company for scale.  He held full P&L responsibility, helped guide the company to its historic $84.5 million FCC Connect USVI win, and provided operations leadership during and after its acquisition by a unit of Liberty Latin America in 2021. Earlier, he served as the CEO/Executive Director of the University of the Virgin Islands Research and Technology Park Corporation (RTPark), an instrumentality of the USVI government formed to establish and grow a vibrant knowledge-based sector in the Territory’s economy. He led policy, workforce investment, infrastructure, and market outreach initiatives and guided RTPark to become a rare example of a sustainable three-way partnership with private sector, governmental, and university stakeholders.

WISPA represents the interests of the evolving Internet service provider that deploys fixed wireless, fiber and hybrid networks. WISPA’s members range from small innovative entrepreneurs to large providers, solutions providers, and manufacturers.