Nord Strategies advises companies, governments, and institutions on the deployment of digital infrastructure — deployment strategy, public funding programs, last-mile connectivity and adoption, strategic partnerships, and market entry across the U.S. and international markets.
Strategy and execution support for companies deploying digital infrastructure in public-sector and regulated environments. We define deployment pathways, navigate policy and funding frameworks, and build the operational and partnership structures deployment depends on.
Advisory support for state, federal, and international programs designing and implementing digital infrastructure and digital inclusion initiatives. Work includes program design, feasibility studies, evaluation of deployment approaches and implementing partners, due diligence on funding recipients, and implementation oversight.
Identification, structuring, and execution of partnerships across the digital infrastructure ecosystem — technology providers, operators, investors, development funders, and public agencies. Support runs from stakeholder mapping and opportunity identification through structuring agreements and managing the collaboration.
Support for companies entering new geographies or regulated markets across the U.S., Africa, and Europe. Work includes market positioning, institutional engagement, funding-program eligibility, and localized partnership and deployment strategies.
Advised an emerging connectivity technology provider on regulatory positioning and deployment strategy in the United States, working with state broadband authorities and industry stakeholders to secure eligibility within major public funding programs — opening the pathway for deployment with broadband operators.
Advising a U.S. state broadband office on the design and implementation of a large-scale federal infrastructure program — technology evaluation, subgrantee selection and due diligence, and implementation support toward statewide connectivity deployment. A multi-year engagement, ongoing since 2023.
Strategic advisor to a rural connectivity provider in Africa, supporting digital inclusion strategy, partnership development, and growth planning to expand sustainable connectivity in underserved communities.
Led the development and structuring of partnerships between connectivity providers, technology companies, international development funders, and local stakeholders to enable digital infrastructure deployment across emerging markets.
Nord Strategies is a boutique digital infrastructure advisory practice founded on 20 years in the field — approaching connectivity from the technology and commercial side, where most advisors come from policy.
Principal Lene Schulze has held leadership roles in global broadband partnerships, advised U.S. state and federal connectivity programs, and supported network deployments across the U.S., Africa, and Europe. She founded Nord Strategies to help connectivity initiatives get from strategy and funding to networks that actually get built.
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