About Us
Our company is built on Safety, Quality, and Teamwork.
Our History
InSite was founded in 2003 by company president, John Reider, with a mission to deliver safe, honest, and competent services to the telecom industry. Along with his co-founder he set out to hire, develop, and retain the best technical professionals in the industry, which in-turn allowed the company to build a reputation for quality and timely service. Over the next two decades the company was able to partner with the industry’s leading carriers, tower operators, turf vendors, and utilities to build better networks that met the evolving needs of the digital ecosystem.
In 2021, InSite partnered with Ranch Creek Partners and True West Capital Partners to expand operations and invest in further growth with a mission to grow the company into the market leader for telecom services in the Western United States. Tom Prestwood joined the company as CEO and InSite expanded into the Northern California market. In 2021 InSite also acquired Nautical Communications, led by industry veteran Blake Miracle, to expand into the Arizona market. In 2023 the company acquired Walker Cellular to solidify its leadership in the Northern California market. Looking ahead InSite expects to continue to expand throughout the Western United States by developing and deploying its own team of experts and by partnering with industry leading contractors throughout the region.
Our Culture
We pride ourselves in adhering to three core principles in every facet of our company from entry level installers to the CEO.
Our Management Team
Tom Prestwood – CEO
Prior to joining InSite as CEO, Tom previously served as CEO of Centerline Solutions, a national wireless engineering and construction services provider with $65 million in annual revenue and more than 300 employees serving the four major wireless carriers, national OEMs, tower companies and fiber network providers, from 2017-2019.
Prior to that, he was President & CEO of TrueNetCommunications, a private equity backed national provider of fiber engineering and construction services with $60 million in annual revenue and more than 350 employees, serving the largest US fiber and cable companies, as well as three of the major wireless carriers, from 2015-2016.
Tom was also an executive at ConterraBroadband Services from 2012-2015 (and a consultant to them for two years prior), and before that served in executive positions at MasTec-NsoroSolutions, SpectrasiteCommunications, TeleCorpPCS, and Vanguard Cellular / AT&T Wireless in the 1990s and 2000s.
He earned a BS in business administration from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Jac Charles – CFO
Jac leads the company’s finance, accounting, human resources, and risk management functions. He previously served as the CFO of OneCor Services, a Ranch Creek portfolio company, where he helped shepherd the company’s expansion into numerous new product and geographic markets, oversaw the business’s transition from QuickBooks to an enterprise ERP and managed the firm’s ongoing access to capital.
From 2014 until 2017, Jac held a variety of Senior Finance roles at RockPile Energy Services and played a critical role in executing the company’s sale to White Deer Energy in 2016 and subsequent sale to Keane Group in 2017. Jac began his career at Goldman Sachs in the equity research division covering the IT Services sector.
He earned a BA in economics as well as a BS in business administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
John Reider – President – Southern California
John serves as InSite’s President, with responsibilities for Southern California operations. In 2003 he co-founded InSite under the principle of providing reliable, honest, and competent wireless installation services. While leading the company alongside his co-founder for nearly 20 years, John oversaw the growth of the company from a single crew to a team of over 30 operating throughout Southern California. He previously held operational and engineering roles at Alcoa Wireless Network Services (formerly Mericom Corporation), Lucent Technologies, COX Communications/Sprint PCS and Verizon Wireless (Air Touch Communications).
John holds a BS in electrical engineering from California State University, Long Beach.
Blake Miracle – Vice President – Arizona & Desert Southwest
Blake has been providing turnkey services and support to an array of carriers and OEM customers across the United States during his fifteen year career in telecommunications. At Nautical, Blake has helped to build an elite team of professional service technicians, all of whom have directly contributed to Nautical’s profitability and impressive growth over the past three years. Blake and his team have been innovator’s in creating network solutions in the most challenging of markets, most notably the Grand Canyon where they engineered and implemented the wireless network that is currently servicing the Tusayan community and all major carriers. Blake’s skillset and understanding of the technological advancements within telecommunications makes him a vital asset to the future of Insite.
Josh Walker – Vice President – Northern California
Josh oversees Insite’s Northern California operations as Vice president. He previously served as founder and CEO of Walker Cellular since 2010. Under Josh’s leadership Walker grew into one of the leading contractors in Northern California with market leading employee retention and deep customer relationships at all carriers. Prior to founding Walker, Josh worked his way up from a tower-hand to foreman and later project manager gaining in-depth expertise on the operational and practical experience of completing telecom jobs, leading and developing crews, growing and nurturing client relationships and completing projects on time and on budget. Josh began his career as a copper and fiber infrastructure service provider after spending 3 years as a sound communications / low voltage union apprentice. At the time, he was the youngest person to graduate the apprenticeship program.