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Jay Rolls

Vice President, Technology

Company:
COX Communications
Company Address:
1400 Lake Hearn Drive
Atlanta, GA 30319
Email address:
jar@jayrolls.com
Phone:
(404) 843-5859
Fax:
(404) 269-1308

Background:

Jay Rolls is the Vice President of Technology at Cox Communications in Atlanta, GA. Cox is the nation's third largest cable operator. He and his team have responsibility for all new-technology development and engineering. Mr. Rolls also chairs the cable industry's DOCSIS Certification Board. Previously, Mr. Rolls was the VP of Business Development at Pacific Broadband. And in 1999 and 2000 he served as the VP of Network Engineering at Excite@Home. Earlier in his career, Mr. Rolls spent nine years in Germany with Alcatel and BBN Communications (now part of Level3), and prior to his time overseas, he worked in the US intelligence community. Mr. Rolls received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 1983 and a M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California in 1988.