Tim Bryan

Tim Bryan serves as the Chief Executive Officer of NRTC. Prior to NRTC, Bryan served as the Chief Executive Officer of ICO Global Communications, a next generation satellite and terrestrial wireless company; the domestic portion of ICO was sold to DISH Networks for $1.4 billion. Prior to ICO, Bryan served as the Chief Financial Officer of Craig McCaw’s Eagle River Holdings. Bryan also served as the President of United Pan Europe Communications (UPC)(now Liberty Global) which was the largest private cable/telecom provider in Europe and as Chief Financial Officer of UnitedGlobalCom, also now Liberty Global. Before that Bryan was the Vice President/Finance and Treasurer of Jones Financial Group and Jones Intercable (now part of Comcast), at the time one of the ten largest domestic cable television operators. Bryan began his career in banking, including as the Vice President and Manager of the Communications Division at NationsBank Corporation (now Bank of America).

Bryan has served on the Board of Directors of Nextel Communications, Clearwire Communications, OpenTV (a Liberty Media affiliate), Telekabel, ICO, A2000, and UPC. He has served on the Boards of the Samaritan Institute and the Jekyll Island Foundation as well. From August 2012 to August 2015 Bryan served on the Board of Directors of FirstNet (a national wireless network to be constructed for use by the nation’s first responders) after appointment by the Secretary of the United States Department of Commerce. He chaired the Finance Committee of the Board for that FirstNet. Bryan served on the Board of Directors of Arris Group, a $5 billion public company engaged in the sale of telecommunications equipment and services to the broadband industries on a global basis, until until the company's sale to CommScope in April 2019 for $7.4 billion. He is currently on the board of TESSCO, a supplier to the wireless industry.