Years in Cable: If you include telecom as part of cable, 30 years!
Education: BS, Journalism/Advertising, University of Kansas; MBA, Baker University
The continued growth of Boingo Broadband is thanks to Hagan’s innate ability to turn small businesses into major successes coupled with Callahan’s strategic insights. Callahan continues to expand Boingo’s international reach through a partnership with Charter Spectrum focused on growing Boingo’s Passpoint roaming integration, which will lower cellular costs for the troops the company serves. And as CEO, Hagan is already working with broadband manufacturers vendors, and other industry players to prepare for the 5G revolution.
Favorite restaurant: Bistro Jeanty in Napa Valley
Best advice your mom or dad ever gave you? Golden rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. So simple, so profound, yet so hard for people.
Worst advice your mom or dad ever gave you? Be careful, don’t take too many risks. I obviously didn’t follow their advice!
If I ever get elected President, my first executive order will be: Increase teacher pay.
Your social media platform of choice? Facebook, Instagram and Snap for friends and family, Twitter for business.
An area where media/broadband could use improvement? User experience. Why is it still so cumbersome to find the channel or programming that you want to watch? It should be easily searchable, like using Google on the Internet.
Your social media platform of choice? Facebook, Instagram and Snap for friends and family, Twitter for business.
Bitcoin – pro or con? I haven’t invested, read advice from parents above, but I do think it will become a global currency alternative to the government controlled ones of today. But it won’t be a straight line getting there and fortunes will be made and lost.
Favorite short-form content? Podcast during my commute
What would be the name of the reality show based on your company? “Did that really just happen?”
What product or service could you not live without? iPhone, of course!
What’s the first thing you read in the morning? Email… which brings industry newsletters.
What does the future look like for skinny bundles and flexible packaging? It is the future. Being forced into buying content we don’t want is so 2017.
Last show I binged not on my network(s): “Billions”
Favorite podcast: “Master of Scale: Reid Hoffman”
If you could have a superpower, what would it be and why? Remove hate from the human condition. Imagine.
