John Foley, Managing Director, Safer Buildings Coalition
In his role, John Foley not only provides day to day Safer Buildings Coalition (SBC) management, but also develops and deploys SBC’s mission-driven thought leadership, public policy, and lobbying efforts. John has extensive experience in analyzing and developing positions for telecommunications regulatory and legislative issues involving federal and state agencies and legislative bodies. John is co-author of The Complete ERCES Handbook, the definitive resource for learning and reference material pertaining to Emergency Responder Communications Enhancement Systems (ERCES). John currently serves on the TIA Smart Buildings Working Group and Public Safety Subgroup, the CTIA Smart Cities Steering Committee, IWCE Advisory Board, and the NATE DAS and Small Cell Working Group. John is also a certified ERCES instructor for the Florida State Fire College. He is a member of the NFPA 1225, Standard for Emergency Services Communications, Technical Committee. John also currently serves as a Senior Advisor to Cathedral Consulting, helping telecom and critical infrastructure entrepreneurs with momentum build valuable businesses they can eventually sell or hand to the next generation of leaders in an Ideal Exit ™. John has held key business development, operations, engineering, and executive roles at telecom service companies such as Level 3 Communications, MFS, and MCI. John was a co-founder of Nextlink (later named XO Communications) where he served as VP of Operations and Engineering and VP of International Network Development. John led dark fiber provider City Signal Communications in the position of President and CEO. John also served for five years in the role of Capture Director and engineering team lead for a leading DAS Integrator.