Friday, October 14, 2011

Connect Ohio Announces New Executive Director to Continue Focus on Broadband Access, Adoption, and Use

 For Immediate Release 
October 14, 2011
Contact: Amanda Murphy 
614-220-0190 
amurphy@connectohio.org 





COLUMBUS – Connect Ohio is proud to announce new leadership within the organization. Stu Johnson has been named executive director of Connect Ohio, leading the nonprofit public-private partnership into 2012 with plans to maintain and build the statewide Every Citizen Online program and to continue being instrumental in identifying underserved broadband markets and facilitating partnerships and funding to create successful expansion efforts.

Johnson has 22 years of executive level telecommunications experience and joins Connect Ohio after serving as CEO of Network Advantage LLC, a nationwide consulting company specializing in new ventures and turnarounds with an emphasis on technology and telecommunications. He holds a bachelor of science degree in finance from The Ohio State University.

“Connect Ohio enjoys tremendous trajectory on all fronts,” said Johnson. “I am fully committed to the organization’s mission of expanding broadband access and adoption to Ohioans and am most honored to carry forward that mission as Connect Ohio’s executive director.”

Since 2008, Connect Ohio has provided advanced research about Ohio’s broadband infrastructure and technology adoption, as well as the coordination of statewide programs to increase the use of technology. Currently, just 66% of Ohio households subscribe to broadband service. Twenty percent of households do not have a computer and 18% of Ohioans do not access the Internet (from home or any other place). Connect Ohio’s programs expand broadband access and adoption of businesses and citizens in an effort to improve the state’s economy and the daily lives of Ohioans.

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About Connect Ohio: Connect Ohio, a division of Connected Nation, is a nonprofit, technology-neutral public-private partnership that works with telecommunications providers, business and community leaders, information technology companies, researchers, public agencies, libraries, and universities in an effort to help extend affordable high-speed Internet service to every Ohio household.
 For more information about what Connect Ohio is doing to accelerate technology in Ohio's communities, visit http://www.connectohio.org.

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