DISTRIBUTECH International 2020

Daniel Belmont
Director, Energy and Utilities Telecommunications
West Monroe Partners


With a 20 year strong technical and entrepreneurial background, Dan provides leadership as a director of the firm’s Energy and Utilities Telecommunications practice. In particular, he applies strong working knowledge of many wireless telecommunications platforms to assist WMPs utilities clients as they evaluate and adopt Smart Grid solutions through the use of wired and wireless IP backhaul, Point to Point, Point to Multipoint and mesh networks, Advanced Metering Infrastructure, mobile radio, and IT integration technologies. Dan has been instrumental in numerous Municipal, Cooperative and IOU projects scoping out and designing their Smart Grid Communications networks, laying out the cost structure and budgeting, vendor relationships, implementation planning, RFP process, vendor contract negotiations and deployment. Dan joined West Monroe Partners in 2008 following the sale of db3 Broadband, LLC, a high-growth wireless Internet service provider that he founded in Illinois, in 2003. As vice president and general manager, he established the company’s business model, secured financing, designed and built the company’s network, hired staff, and played an instrumental role in acquiring and integrating networks that complemented db3’s own offerings. By 2005, db3 Broadband grew to 30 towers covering over 1500 square miles serving thousands of customers and was one of the fastest-growing wireless Internet service providers in the Chicagoland area. Dan has a B.S. in Finance from Northern Illinois University, E-Business Strategy from the University of Chicago and has completed the Leadership Skills Academy at Yale University. He is an active member of the UTC since 2009 and a member of the Smart Networks Council Board of Directors since 2012.

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