Sarah Bleau

NTIA: Director, Middle Mile Grant Program

Sarah Bleau has over 20 years in the data networking world, in roles ranging from sales to engineering, management and operations.

Sarah joined NTIA’s BroadbandUSA team in early 2021, where she leverages her experience as an industry liaison. This experience includes new business development for fiber start-up Arcadian Infracom, and before that, managing carrier services at Viasat, a global satellite ISP. Working across geographies and business functions, her primary role was to deploy fiber networks in support of global programs. Prior to that, Sarah spent time with Level 3 Communications (now Lumen), where she wore hats in leadership, sales, product, sales engineering and project management, specializing in Dark Fiber, Lit Transport, Colocation, Cloud and Internet.