Rob Hegblom

Rob Hegblom is an experienced product and corporate strategist with a diverse background in the telecommunications industry. He holds an MBA in Marketing and Strategy from Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, as well as an MS in Applied Economics from The Johns Hopkins University, a BA in Economics from Georgetown University, and has studied economics at Trinity College-Hartford, and at BB&N.

With his extensive experience, Rob works to define the value of innovative technologies within large-scale Internet, cloud, and telecommunications companies. He collaborates with innovation and engineering teams to determine strategies to deploy new network architectures, and evaluates the business case of new technologies to make sure they add value to the company's products. Additionally, he enables sales teams with the correct data and insights to grow their customer base, and seeks out feedback loops to improve the end user experience. Lastly, Rob develops attainable pricing and revenue models to capture product value.

Rob's professional background has included several notable roles, including his current position as a Product Strategy member at EdgeConneX. Previously, he worked as a Senior Manager of Corporate Strategy at NII Holdings, Inc., the B2B Market Strategy Manager, and Corporate Strategy Manager at Sprint Nextel, a Senior Management Consultant at inCode, a division of Ericsson, a Technical Marketing Analyst at Intel, and an Analyst at Markowitz & McNaughton, the Strategis Group, and Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman.