Michael Murphy

Michael Murphy, President

Leadership, performance and collaboration have been the themes of Michael Murphy's 15 year telecom career. Michael brings over a decade of sales and management experience to NEF, with 11 years working directly with dark fiber. He has extensive first-hand experience with network planning and implementation as well as forming and cultivating strategic alliances and channel partners throughout the nation.

Michael has negotiated contracts and facilitated deals with nearly all the major national carriers and has successfully developed regional assets to round out NEF's service offerings. Michael brings his experience working with numerous Fortune 1000 companies as well as small outfits to offer diverse and inventive strategies for any size business. He leads NEF with an emphasis on personalized service for each client and a solutions-based approach to network planning.

Quickly realizing the need for detailed fiber maps for both metro and long haul networks, Murphy launched FiberLocator, which has become one of the most comprehensive mapping resources for identifying dark fiber and lit services. Additionally, BuildingLocator was developed to catalog lit buildings across the US, and now provides information on over 80,000 lit buildings.
 
Because high capacity networks often touch data centers, Murphy has recently spearheaded the creation of an online resource helps users find both data center space and connectivity, FindADataCenter.com. With information and a long list of providers offering data center solutions and managed services, FindADataCenter.com is rapidly growing as the go-to site for identifying and selecting a data center and network solution.

Michael is a member of the Level 3 Business Partner Advisory Council and a member of the Colo Consortium. He has a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

You can read Michael's blog at DarkFiberResource.com.