David Holub - Founder & President

David's career spans more than 20 years - all of it focused on the Internet and telecommunications arenas. With a unique blend of knowledge, skills and abilities, David is an effective leader and a successful “doer”.

David has held leadership roles within Engineering and Business Development teams at various Telecommunications and Internet startup companies. He founded and built one of the earliest and largest regional Internet Service Providers, certificated it as a “telecom carrier” and sold it in the deregulated telecom marketplace.

David's diverse background includes providing testimony at Congressional subcommittee hearings on Telecommunications deregulation and delivering state-of-the-art Telecom/Internet Data Center facilities in three countries simultaneously in less than 12 months.

One of David's crowning technical achievements was the completion of a data center/telecom hotel in Seoul, South Korea. The facility boasted:

115,000 gross square feet with 48,000 square feet of raised floor. 10 megawatts of critical and essential power and 2000 tons of cooling capacity. Full system-wide N+1 redundancy. 3000 racks/cabinets for server, switch & telecom equipment and 1 million meters of fiber optic & category-6 media. Ultra-modern security, building management and fire suppression systems.


David founded Hooked Communications in 2002.

David has a BS in History and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin and an Engineering Degree in Digital Telephony and Broadband Telecommunications from the University of California at Berkeley.