William B. (Brad) Davis
President
Brad Davis is president of DukeNet Communications. He leads the Duke Energy business that provides wholesale telecommunications capacity to commercial customers in North Carolina and South Carolina.
Davis has more than 25 years of experience in the energy and telecommunications industry.
He joined the company in 1982 as an instrumentation and controls engineer in the nuclear production department at Catawba Nuclear Station. After a series of promotions, he was named manager of information systems at McGuire Nuclear Station in 1988. In 1992, he moved to the corporate office in Charlotte where he held variety of leadership positions, including manager of customer support for information technology services in 1993; manager of telecommunications systems in 1994; manager of generation business applications in 1997; and vice president of engineering and operations for DukeNet Communications in 2001. Davis was named president of DukeNet Communications in 2003 and continued in that role following the merger of Duke Energy and Cinergy in April 2006.
A native of Pleasant Garden, N.C., Davis earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University and a master of business administration degree from Queens University.
Tony Cockerham
Vice President, Wireless Sales and Business Development
Tony Cockerham was named vice president of planning and customer operations of DukeNet Communications in March 2006. Prior to his current position, Cockerham served as vice president of engineering and operations for DukeNet Communications.
Before joining DukeNet in 1999, Cockerham spent 3 years in engineering and project management roles in Duke Energy’s Telecommunications department. Prior to that, he spent 6 years in various positions at BellSouth including network engineering, infrastructure planning, sales technical support, and project management.
Joe McCourt
Vice President, Sales and Customer Operations
Joe McCourt joined DukeNet Communications in January of 2007 to lead Marketing and Business Development. In March of 2007, Joe was selected to develop, build and manage the Enterprise Sales strategy for DukeNet in addition to his other duties.
Prior to coming to DukeNet, Joe was SVP of Sales for Level 3 - Business Markets Group.
His 22 year telecom Career began with Senior Sales positions at MCI, after which he switched to the client-side of telecom as the Director of Communications for Brooks Brothers clothing for five years. While in that role, Joe was responsible for all voice and data requirements for the entire retail chain. The balance of his career included positions with MFS as City VP, and Time Warner Telecom and TelCove where he managed multiple markets and regions in the competitive telecommunications space.
Joe's accomplishments include the successful five year extension of the State of Pennsylvania Telecommunications contract valued at over 200 Million dollars while at TelCove.
Kevin Lane
Vice President, Engineering and Field Operations
Kevin Lane was named vice president of engineering and operations of DukeNet Communications in March of 2006. Prior to his current position, Lane was responsible for business development in DukeNet. Prior to his DukeNet role, Lane was a division manager in the DEBS IT group responsible for workstation and enterprise database management services in Duke Energy.
Before joining Duke Energy in 1997, Lane's career has spanned 20 years in various technical and managerial positions within Information Technology spanning application development, systems management and project management roles in the energy, aerospace and manufacturing business sectors.
