01 Jun Jimmy Carr
Jimmy is the Chief Executive Officer of All Points Broadband. In this role he is responsible for the Company’s strategic direction and is focused on expanding All Points’ portfolio of public-private partnerships to provide fiber-to-the-home access to currently unserved areas in partnership with investor-owned and cooperative electric utilities.
All Points has announced partnerships with five electric utilities across nine counties that will provide universal access to fiber-to-the-home broadband in each partner jurisdiction.
After growing a successful rural-focused internet service provider in another market, he founded All Points to bring state-of-the-art connectivity to underserved communities in Virginia, Kentucky and throughout in the mid-Atlantic. Jimmy is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association and oversees the association’s policy agenda as Chairman of its Legislative Committee. He represents the rural broadband industry on the Virginia Broadband Advisory Council and has testified before the U.S. Senate as an expert on rural broadband deployment.
Before joining the telecommunications industry, Jimmy was an associate with the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. He previously served as Virginia’s Assistant Secretary of Transportation in two administrations, directing legislative and regulatory affairs for six agencies with an annual budget in excess of four billion dollars. He is also the founder and principal architect of the public-private partnership to build the 55-mile Virginia Capital Trail.
Jimmy earned a law degree and an MBA at the University of Virginia, where he was the Managing Editor of the Virginia Law Review, President of the JD/MBA society and inducted into the Raven Society. He is an Order of the Coif graduate of the law school and received the business school’s Shermet Award and Faculty Award for Academic Excellence. Jimmy graduated from Davidson College cum laude and with departmental honors.