Matanuska Telecom Association names Comcast, Verizon veteran Voiles as new CEO

MTA has tapped Demian Voiles as CEO, replacing retiring CEO Michael C. Burke beginning on September 29, 2025. Naming Voiles as CEO follows a nationwide search conducted in partnership with CarterBaldwin Executive Search.

Voiles comes to MTA’s CEO role with plenty of broadband as well as experience in the Alaska market to lead MTA.

He joins MTA from Comcast, where he most recently served as RVP of Construction and Engineering, managing a $300 million capital budget and leading the company's fastest-growing expansion region. Earlier, as RVP of Sales and Marketing in Texas, he directed strategies that generated $2 billion in annual revenue and consistently achieved industry-leading customer satisfaction.

Before his tenure at Comcast, Voiles held senior leadership roles at GCI Liberty (now part of Liberty Broadband) and Verizon, including launching and leading Verizon Alaska as its first employee, where he built the operation from the ground up and quickly surpassed market and revenue targets.

Voiles holds a BA in political science from the University of California, Davis.

The timing of Voile's appointment as CEO comes as MTA continues to enhance its network capabilities. Leveraging a mix of public and private funding, MTA has been building out fiber broadband. It also completed its AlCan ONE project in 2020, the first all-terrestrial fiber line connecting Alaska to the Lower 48 states, adding a leg to Chicago in 2022.

Ken Kincaid, Chief Governance Officer of the MTA Board, said Voiles’ “leadership in building markets from the ground up, along with his success in delivering transformative growth for global telecom companies, makes him the right leader to guide MTA through a period of continued expansion and community impact."

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