Anthony V. (Tony) Bardo joined Hughes Network Systems in January, 2006 as assistant vice president of Government Solutions. In this role, he is responsible for sales, marketing and program management dedicated to providing federal, state and local governments with broadband solutions from Hughes’ array of networking products and services.
In December 2005 Mr. Bardo was elected as the Chair of the Networks and Telecommunications Shared Interest Group (SIG) for the Industry Advisory Council (IAC), an advisory body to the American Council for Technology (ACT), and completed two consecutive terms. ACT was established in 1979 to promote the partnership between government and the information technology industry. From 2015-2106, he served as the IAC Industry Co-chair of the NS2020 Working Group, directing the efforts of over 65 private and public sector professionals providing input to GSA for the EIS program, the government’s next generation network services procurement. Mr. Bardo was the Industry Chair for the ACT-IAC’s Executive Leadership Conference, an 800 attendee annual conference, for 2015. Mr. Bardo also serves as president of the Washington, DC chapter of the Independent Telephone Pioneers Association (ITPA) from 2016-2017.
Prior to joining Hughes, Mr. Bardo was employed by Qwest Government Services for nearly 5 years where he served in several areas, notably as senior director for civilian agencies sales and marketing, senior director of marketing and senior director of business development. While at Qwest, Mr. Bardo’s team enabled the company’s position as a GSA FTS contractor and, as a result, won a number of large contract awards with multiple agencies.
Before joining Qwest, Mr. Bardo spent 14 years with the government markets group at MCI where he held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility, and ultimately the position of executive director for civilian agencies. During his tenure, his teams captured some of the industry’s most lucrative contracts including the FAA’s national air traffic control network, the Social Security Administration’s toll-free network, the USPS Managed Service Network, and GSA’s FTS 2001.
Mr. Bardo also spent almost 6 years at AT&T’s government communications division where he held several direct sales and management positions in the civilian agency market, including his efforts as a key member of the FTS 2000 capture team, which resulted in a contract award to AT&T.
Mr. Bardo is a 1974 graduate of Virginia Tech where he majored in economics with a minor in public communications, and played varsity soccer. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have been married for over 36 years, have two grown children and live in Burke, Va.