Rise Broadband CEO and leadership

Jim O'Brien is an EVP and Chief Operations Officer at Birch Communications, Chief Executive Officer at Rise Broadband, and President and Chief Operating Officer at Rise Broadband and is based in Englewood, Colorado. He has worked as SVP Customer Operations at Rise Broadband; EVP Infrastructure, Engineering and Operations/EVP Network Operations & Customer Operations at EarthLink; and SVP of Operations/VP, Service Reliability at TCG. Jim attended Suburban Technical School between 1985 and 1986.

Kohler co-founded JAB Broadband (Rise Broadband’s parent company) in 2005, serves on the Board of Directors and is the company’s Chief Development Officer; responsible for all mergers and acquisitions, spectrum development and governmental affairs activities. Rise Broadband is the largest fixed broadband wireless access provider in the United States providing broadband and digital telephone services to approximately 200,000 residential and business subscribers in sixteen states. Under his leadership, more than 100 companies have been acquired since the company was formed.With 20+ years of wireless industry experience, Mr. Kohler previously served as Director of Corporate Finance and M&A with GVC Capital LLC, where he focused on mergers, acquisitions and capital formation within the wireless industry. Mr. Kohler was also CEO and Founder of Reason, Inc., a wireless management services company which was acquired by InPhonic (formerly NASDAQ:INPC) in 2002. Furthermore, he held senior positions with AT&T Wireless and McCaw Cellular Communications.He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Wireless Communications Association (WCA), the FCC Committee for the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA), Co-Founder and Director of WISP PAC (wisp-pac.org) and is active in advocacy efforts with both the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as well as the U.S. Congress.

​John leads the marketing and business development teams and is on a mission to make DoubleDown Casino famous around the globe and the next great consumer brand. He is a consumer marketer with a track record of building brands and businesses from the customer up. From fabric softener to fried chicken to wireless, he has created and developed new brands like Sidekick and T-Mobile, while revitalizing tired but venerable brand names such as KFC. With over 25 years of experience in multiple categories and countries, John has built and led marketing, communication and innovation teams at Pepsico, Colgate-Palmolive, YUM Brands and T-Mobile. Joining Voicestream, a small regional wireless carrier, he led the effort that rebranded and built T-Mobile into a household name and one of the 'Big 4' wireless carriers. John has a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing and Finance from Queen's University.

Mark Meisner is a Chief Financial Officer at Rise Broadband and is based in Denver, Colorado. He has worked as Senior Manager at KPMG; CFO, VP of Finance - North America Installation and Service at CIT GROUP INC; and Corporate Controller at Orchid Cellmark. Mark attended Loyola University Maryland between 1990 and 1994 and Houston.

Mr. Jack Koo is a President and Chief Executive Officer at Rise Broadband and is based in United States.

Kohler co-founded JAB Broadband (Rise Broadband’s parent company) in 2005, serves on the Board of Directors and is the company’s Chief Development Officer; responsible for all mergers and acquisitions, spectrum development and governmental affairs activities. Rise Broadband is the largest fixed broadband wireless access provider in the United States providing broadband and digital telephone services to approximately 200,000 residential and business subscribers in sixteen states. Under his leadership, more than 100 companies have been acquired since the company was formed.With 20+ years of wireless industry experience, Mr. Kohler previously served as Director of Corporate Finance and M&A with GVC Capital LLC, where he focused on mergers, acquisitions and capital formation within the wireless industry. Mr. Kohler was also CEO and Founder of Reason, Inc., a wireless management services company which was acquired by InPhonic (formerly NASDAQ:INPC) in 2002. Furthermore, he held senior positions with AT&T Wireless and McCaw Cellular Communications.He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Wireless Communications Association (WCA), the FCC Committee for the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA), Co-Founder and Director of WISP PAC (wisp-pac.org) and is active in advocacy efforts with both the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as well as the U.S. Congress.