Malik Ishak serves as Director of Smart City Connectivity for the North America within Signify’s BrightSites business unit. Mr. Ishak possesses over 20 years of telecoms experience (gained both nationally and internationally) from his tenure with multinationals including Sprint, Andrew Corporation and CommScope where he took new telecom solutions to market and led teams globally. Since joining Signify in January 2021 Mr. Ishak secured the first North American deployment of the BrightSites innovative last mile Broadband Luminaire solution (at the Va Smart Community Testbed in Stafford County). Mr. Ishak is working with municipalities, utilities, neutral hosts, MNOs, ISPs and IOT applications layer providers to support the deployment of Smart City solutions throughout North America.