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Posted: March 22, 2022
2022 Women in Construction: Patricia Polenz, Lightpath
Name: Patricia Polenz
Title: Enterprise Account Executive
Company Name: Lightpath
Who within your own firm has helped you succeed within the construction industry?
Our engineers!! Their expertise gave me a very different perspective about building infrastructure. From basement meet me rooms, to roof and riser rights, and everything in between, the Lightpath engineering team helped me understand both the business and the technology challenges today’s commercial real estate market faces along with needed solutions for success. From a surplus of rental space to economic contraction, the need to make a property stand out has never been greater and a fiber-optic network is now a necessity not a choice. It’s never too early to get the Lightpath competitive advantage for your commercial construction project.
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