Conexon, the most experienced consulting group specializing in electric cooperative fiber optic deployments, has furthered its mission, its focus and its leadership with the addition of two new senior team members.
Conexon welcomes Renee Robinson and Darren Farnan to our team of partners and professional subcontractors. Both Renee and Darren bring years of hands-on FTTH deployment and operational experience. Renee has designed more fiber miles on electric cooperatives than anyone else in the country. Darren managed the successful planning, construction and deployment of a fiber-to-the-home network for a Missouri cooperative with just 2.5 meters per mile.
Both Renee and Darren reinforce Conexon’s singular commitment to helping electric cooperatives build fiber networks to serve their members. We have one constituency – rural electric cooperative members. We believe that fiber networks can be built to every home that has electricity. Renee and Darren have each lived our mission – to bring world class broadband to rural America.
Renee Robinson has joined Conexon as Vice President, Projects and Fiber Design. Renee will lead Conexon’s construction management and FTTH design projects. She brings over 20 years of GIS experience and project management to Conexon. Renee started her career working for the State of Missouri where she served on the State GIS Advisory Board and provided support for emergency events and exercises at the Emergency Operations Center. In 2012 joined Co-Mo Connect, a subsidiary of Co-Mo Electric Cooperative as the GIS Specialist. She has designed over 4,500 miles of fiber to the home plant.
Darren Farnan is joining Conexon as Vice President, Client Services. Darren will lead and manage relationships with Conexon’s clients including advising and assisting with FTTH implementation. Darren comes to Conexon from United Services in Northwest Missouri. Darren led the development and ongoing operations of the United Fiber network which has grown to over 1,500 miles of fiber, 18 employees, and $6 million in annual revenue since activating their first fiber customer in 2013.
Conexon continues to celebrate the achievements of electric cooperatives. Our project experience includes:
the first rural gigabit service; the only FTTH network built to 100% of the members of an electric cooperative; the only FTTH networks built completely without government assistance; the only FTTH electric coop networks that are operating profitably; the largest ongoing rural fiber-to-the-home construction project in the country; the only statewide fiber-to-the-home business model; multiple clients with over 100,000 members and with fewer than 10,000 members; projects financed by RUS, CoBank and CFC; the only electric cooperatives that have partnered with other electric cooperatives.
