Biography
Jeff Letourneau is the Executive Director of Networkmaine at the University of Maine System where he is responsible for UMS' cyber-infrastructure including Maine’s Research and Education Network, MaineREN. Jeff is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the North East Research and Education Network, NEREN, serves on the ConnectMaine Authority Advisory Board, and was formerly a member of the Maine State Legislature’s Broadband Strategy Council.
Jeff has been involved with and led many network initiatives in Maine. These initiatives have included Maine’s first ever Internet connection in the late 1980s, the first CableTV based broadband network as part of the Bethel Datafication Project in the early 1990s, the first in the nation all inclusive K-12 school and public library network (MSLN) in the mid-1990s and, most recently, Jeff was the catalyst behind and co-author of the $25M Three Ring Binder Federal BTOP grant that created three "rings" of fiber optic infrastructure throughout Western, Northern and Downeast Maine.
