Mark T. Ansboury

Senior VP & Chief Technology Officer

Mark Ansboury is a veteran telecommunications professional with years of community development, information technology and telecommunications leadership experience in the private and public sectors.  He currently serves as senior vice president and chief technology officer for the Knight Center of Digital Excellence, overseeing the Connected Communities Team. He holds the same position with OneCommunity, where he manages the technical, operational and business development of OneCommunity's ultra broadband community network.  In addition, he serves as chief operations officer for the Northeast Ohio Regional Health Information Organization and OneCommunity HealthNet Partnership, where he is responsible for coordination of the Federal Communications Commission pilot project.  He also is a member of the Ohio Broadband Council.

Most recently, Mark served as vice president of managed services and chief technology officer for Telsource Managed Network Services of Fairfield, New Jersey.  He was executive vice president of engineering, chief technology officer and director of ClearData Communications, where he was responsible for the national deployment of an IP/ATM/WDN network.  Prior to that, Mark was president and founder of NGT Partners, LLC, a technology and financial consulting firm, and Information Technology Partners (ITECH Partners), responsible for the development of wireless and national IP/ATM and wireless strategies for AT&T, Intermedia Communications, Bell South and Optus Communications and network deployment and management for OPTUS Communications/Advanced Radio Telecom, and Winstar.

In addition, Mark served as director for telecommunications at the State of Texas Department of Information Resources, where he was responsible for the Texas Statewide IP and Telemedicine network. He also served as co-chair on the state's Telemedicine Strategic Plan and led the development of the State of Texas Telecommunications Plan.  During this period Mr. Ansboury also served as a legislative consultant on the Texas Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996.

Mark holds a M.S. in systems management from the University of Southern California and B.S./B.A. from Hawaii Pacific College.  He served nine years in the U.S. Navy and earned an IEE Certification in Communications.  Additionally, Mark is certified as a Security CISSP and Disaster Recovery Planner.

Active in the workforce development and nonprofit community, Mark supports a number of community collaborations including serving as a Team Leader for Aligning Forces for Quality in Health Care, serving as an Advisor for the Ohio Health Information Partnership, serving as an Advisor to the Health Policy Institute of Ohio for the HISPC Grant, and as a Trustee for the Cleveland Ingenuity Festival.