Paul Reddick
Applied AI — Informed by Decades of Forward-Looking TMT Experience
Paul Reddick advises corporate boards, private equity investors, venture capitalists, and executive leaders through Reddick & Company. His primary focus is the application layer of AI — helping decision-makers evaluate whether investments and operating strategies are sound, and guiding leadership teams on whether, where, and how to deploy artificial intelligence for measurable commercial and operational leverage. That strategic perspective builds on early-career advisory at McKinsey & Company, with demonstrated breadth spanning a diverse range of global industries, paired with ongoing technical grounding in machine learning.
He also advises smaller, earlier-stage companies building agentic AI solutions for enterprise and consumer markets — working with founders on the whole business, not just the technology: sharpening the business plan, building a repeatable product that sells, hiring the talent to deliver it, and raising the money to fund it.
That perspective is grounded in rare end-to-end operating depth across Technology, Media, and Telecom (TMT). Over three decades as a carrier executive, venture-backed CEO, tower development SVP, and hyperscaler leader, Paul has repeatedly pioneered new business models and commercial frameworks at the intersection of applications and infrastructure. That depth runs across every major transport layer of telecom — satellite (NTN) and terrestrial networks (macro and small cell), metro fiber, edge compute, and public and private indoor wireless — spanning both the infrastructure itself and the applications that run on it. Across all of it runs a career-long habit: seeing around corners, and grasping the nuance of how each new technology can be put to work — doing what we do today better, and doing things we couldn’t have imagined before.
Areas of focus
Applied AI Strategy & Deployment
Pragmatic counsel on the how and whether of AI. Helping leadership teams identify high-leverage opportunities, evaluate probabilistic and agentic workflows, and integrate AI directly into the core commercial, product, and operational functions of the business.
Diligence, Investments & Market Assessment
Executive-level commercial advisory and due diligence for private equity investors, venture funds, and corporate boards. Seasoned operating perspective on digital infrastructure investments, strategic partnerships, and new market assessments — many of them centered on deploying AI infrastructure or bringing AI applications to market.
Full-Stack Network Infrastructure
Comprehensive domain depth across the modern connectivity fabric: satellite and non-terrestrial networks, macro towers, densified small cells, metro fiber, distributed edge compute, and enterprise indoor public and private wireless.
TMT Strategy
Paul has helped media and telecom companies through technology intersections before — mobile entertainment being the defining one, when mobile, media, and content first converged. AI is the next such intersection, and he brings the same playbook to it: what changes, what endures, and how to build new business on the shift instead of being displaced by it.
Writing
Occasional writing on AI — most recently “When ‘Because’ Isn’t a Comfortable Answer”, on the shift from deterministic logic to probabilistic AI. See the Writing page for the full index.