Hunter Newby is a twelve year veteran of the telecom networking industry. He has built a depth of creative and management experience and expertise in multiple disciplines within the field ranging from sales, marketing and technical aspects to network engineering and raising capital.

Prior to founding Allied Fiber, Mr. Newby was Chief Strategy Officer of the Telx Group, Inc., one of the leading carrier hotel interconnection facility operators in the U.S. Telx was founded in 2000 to address the need for a neutral environment for colocation and interconnection for all network operators. Mr. Newby led the direction of the company into this new dimension of the communication networking industry that had previously never existed. Under Mr. Newby’s direction, Telx successfully created an entirely new business model and built the strongest brand name in the world for carrier-neutral core interconnection facilities.

During his tenure at Telx, Mr. Newby participated in management meetings with investors continually assisting in the capital raising process to fund the business as it grew. Through his role at Telx as Chief Strategy Officer and ultimately a member of the Board, he was directly involved in more than $500 million in transactions between 2003 and 2007. He built and trained an outstanding sales team which produced consistent positive monthly, quarterly and annual revenue growth even through the telecom industry's downturn in the early 2000’s.

Mr. Newby led not only the strategy of the company, but also the industry. Mr. Newby is well known in the Carrier Hotel Interconnection business and is also a recognized authority on Ethernet transport and Voice Peering.

Mr. Newby has been involved with various industry Councils and Associations including the Pacific Telecommunications Council (Vice Chairman of PTC Advisory Council), VON (Advisory Board Member) and the International Engineering Consortium. He has also written monthly columns and been featured in numerous industry publications including Capacity Magazine, Data Center Dynamics Focus Magazine, Fat Pipe Magazine, Internet Telephony Magazine, IP Business Magazine, Lightreading and Lightwave.

Mr. Newby received Bachelor’s degree in Communications from Drexel University.

Mr. Cohen is a veteran communications industry executive with over 22 years of experience in developing and operating new fiber optic, bulk communications transport and technology businesses. His extensive experience includes designing and building multiple fiber optic network businesses including long-haul networks, regional networks, metropolitan area networks, trans-Atlantic networks, and backhaul networks for the wireless industry.

Mr. Cohen’s education and experience in electrical and optical engineering, business and finance, industrial management, as well as contract development and administration enable him to successfully organize and develop Allied Fiber’s entire management team. He has extensive experience in recruiting and developing senior and mid-level management organizations in the technology sector and implementing systems and controls necessary to build and operate a successful communications company.

In addition, his experience includes building fiber optic networks utilizing private and utility rights of way passing through multiple regions of the US. This experience is key because of Allied Fiber's unique relationship with its railroad partners, enabling Allied Fiber to build networks on the railroads' rights of way. In addition, Mr. Cohen has a history of designing and building custom networks for both international and domestic carriers, media companies, ISP’s, regional and long distance phone companies, financial institutions, and numerous data center operators.

Mr. Opelt is an experienced executive in the Telecommunications industry, managing, developing, constructing and maintaining long distance, dark fiber networks for over 15 years.  He has developed strategic client relationships with carriers, cable operators, colleges and universities, enterprise customers, state and municipal entities, railroads, and other dark fiber providers.  Mr. Opelt has had ownership in a construction company specializing in telecommunications infrastructure and in a competitive access provider offering dark and dim fiber.  

Mr. Opelt has facilitated operational relationships with states and municipalities to expedite the permitting process for new construction and to provide for long-term maintenance of fiber optic networks.  Mr. Opelt has negotiated fiber “swaps” with other dark fiber providers and negotiated and managed joint telecommunication construction projects with multiple parties.  In order to expedite the installation of fiber optic infrastructure in railroad right-of-way, he has developed relationships with several railroads, including the Norfolk Southern Railroad.  He has worked as a consultant with The Management Network Group (TMNG), a firm focused on the communications marketplace, and as an independent consultant involved with US-based telecommunication organizations.  Outside of the Telecommunications industry, Mr. Opelt has served as a consultant in the energy field and managed a wholly owned subsidiary for a natural gas distribution company.  He has an MBA in Finance and Marketing. 

Mr. Cutaia is the Executive Director of Corinthian Capital and leads the firm’s alternative investment initiatives. Prior to joining Corinthian in 2006, Mr. Cutaia was the Founder, Chairman, President and CEO of The Telx Group, Inc., the internationally recognized, premier operator of telecom interconnection facilities and the pioneer of the highly successful carrier hotel “meet-me-room” business model. Mr. Cutaia founded the Company in 2000, personally assembled a management team, and over the course of only 6 years, lead the business from a start-up to a successful sale and liquidity event priced at almost $250 million.

As CEO of Telx, Mr. Cutaia provided the vision for the Company's strategic goals and objectives.  He also created the processes by which he and his management team crafted the Company’s business plan, and then led the Company through its virtually flawless execution.  He personally identified, negotiated and oversaw the successful integration of acquisitions, while at the same time, engineered and implemented the policies, procedures, and processes that drove double-digit organic growth, year over year.  Those initiatives included creating an entire sales team, an entire marketing team, as well as technical support, customer satisfaction, and finance departments.  By embracing the concept of “branding” and employing new and innovative marketing strategies, Mr. Cutaia drove the profitability expansion and the establishment of a premier reputation for Telx.
While directing all aspects of the Company's activities and operations, Mr. Cutaia employed a unique management style that encouraged and inspired entrepreneurship and individual creativity among all employees, while at the same time promoting a coordinated team, keenly focused on the continued successful execution of the Company's business plans and objectives.

Mr. Cutaia has a broad range of experience in domestic and international telecommunications, cable, real estate, banking, financial and governmental institutions.  He is a frequent participant on industry panels and presentations, has authored numerous articles on topics relevant to telecommunications and the colocation industry, and has himself been the subject of industry articles, including an appearance on the cover and featured story in America’s Network Magazine.

Prior to Telx, Mr. Cutaia founded Innovative Resources, Inc., an early business-to-business strategic marketing enterprise, and served as President.  After the successful sale of the business, Mr. Cutaia completed his law degree and joined a major international law firm.  Recognizing and encouraging Mr. Cutaia's entrepreneurship, the law firm supported his business development activities in the former Soviet Union, where he was instrumental in obtaining the cooperation of the then communist government authorities to permit Soviet athletes to compete professionally, for the first time, outside the Soviet Union, in the international arena.  Some of Mr. Cutaia's activities in the former Soviet Union were the subject of a featured article in Sports Illustrated.

Mr. Cutaia serves on the Board of several companies and organizations, including a Member of the Board of Trustees of the New York Institute of Technology, and is the founder of the U.S. chapter of Innocence in Danger, a non-profit, international organization dedicated to the protection and rehabilitation of children who have been victims of trafficking and abuse.

Mr. Cutaia is a graduate of the New York Institute of Technology (B.A. 1982) and the Fordham University School of Law (J.D. 1985).