James E. Rogers, Jr. (Jim) is President and CEO of ProInfoNet, the independent telecommunications and computer consulting firm he founded in 1995. In 2007, Jim helped found the New England Telehealth Consortium (NETC), a non-profit consortium and health care network that has grown to over 1,350 participating New England health care provider sites. NETC was awarded 24.6 million dollars by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as part of the Rural Health Care Pilot Program. Jim and NETC were contributors to the new FCC’s Healthcare Connect Fund rules released in December of 2012.

In 2013, Jim founded HealthConnect Networks, a firm devoted to bringing low-cost broadband services to non-profit health care providers across the United States in conjunction with Healthcare Connect fund subsidies. Currently, HealthConnect Networks works with over 2500 health care providers across the United States.

In 2018, Jim had an idea on how the federal government could use a public/private partnership model to solve the digital divide and bring highspeed broadband internet to every home, business, and anchor institution in the U.S. Jim’s idea, draft legislation, and work in Washington D.C. promulgated the $42.5B BEAD legislation that became law as part of the Infrastructure Act of 2021. He then went on to form a new company Mission Broadband to help communities across the country use this money to design and build highspeed broadband internet to homes, businesses, and anchor institutions across the country. He is a Trustee on the Board of Acadia Hospital in Bangor, Maine, a Trustee on the Board of Phillips-Strickland House in Bangor, Maine, serves on the Northern Light Health Board Strategic Planning Committee, and previously served as adjunct faculty at Husson University and on the State of Maine Telecommunications Forum for Governor Angus King. Jim has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Maine and spends as much time as he can sailing with his wife, children, and grandchildren in Penobscot Bay and the Gulf of Maine.

Education: BS, University of Maine