Alaska Communications Promotes Chief Technology Officer
Alaska Communications promoted Mark Ayers to Chief Technology Officer. In that role, Ayers leads information technology, planning and construction strategy, engineering design and execution, and helps set network vision.
Ayers joined the Anchorage-based telecom at the start of 2022 after working for twenty years at cross-town rival GCI. Ayers is a University of Alaska graduate and a licensed professional engineer.
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From the Community Winter Access Trail to the Pan-American Highway, from the Willow and Pikka projects to the proposed Ambler Access Road, the Dalton Highway is a lifeline to the top of North America. But despite fifty years of improvements, unevenly thawing permafrost and an uncertain financial foundation have frayed the North Slope’s road to the rest of the world.