Mike Ainger

Mike led the team that won the contract with the Welsh Assembly Government and established the FibreSpeed business.  He was intimately involved in the whole process from concept through design to delivery and is the senior management lead for the business. 

A chartered engineer and member of The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Mike spent ten years working in British Rail’s telecommunications before moving on to Racal Telecom where he was General Manager. Here he developed the technology strategy and business case for a 10,000km high-capacity optical network, which was implemented into 350 BT local exchanges. The network not only significantly reduced bandwidth cost but also increased company turnover.

Mike was Network Director with Global Crossing UK, working on both backbone national networks and bespoke networks for major government and commercial customers. He led the design and bid production for a £1bn 10-year government network at Serco before joining Geo in 2004.