The story
Atlantic-ACM was founded in 1991 by Judy Reed Smith, a Harvard-educated strategist who tackled her first telecommunications industry project in 1987 and worked for such consultancies as Gray Judson Howard (offshoot of Arthur D. Little) and Mercer Management Consulting.
After generating some of the competitive telecommunications industry's first sizing and share forecasts, Reed Smith was recognized as an industry influencer, based largely on the firm's research and become a trusted data source in resources ranging from industry trades to The Wall Street Journal. By 2000, she was recognized within the industry as a "mastermind" and her firm an industry "braintrust".
In 2002, Reed Smith was the first supplier member appointed to the board of directors for the Association of Communications Enterprises (ASCENT), which later became the Internet and Competitive Networks Association (INCOMPAS). In 2009, Atlantic-ACM president Fedor Smith became a featured columnist for xchange magazine and later for RCR Wireless News.
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