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Kirsten Eades has extensive work experience in procurement and management roles. Kirsten is currently the Director of Procurement at Brightspeed. Prior to that, they served as the Director of Network Procurement at Lumen Technologies from August 2020 to April 2022. Kirsten also held senior management positions at CenturyLink and Anheuser-Busch InBev, where they were responsible for customer premise equipment procurement and capital expenditures. Kirsten Eades has also worked at Apple Inc. as a Manager, overseeing iPhone OEM business operations, and at Juniper Networks as a Commodity Manager, specializing in power supplies and routing engines. Their career began as a Marketing and Business Development Intern at Hewlett-Packard.

Kirsten Eades holds a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from Linfield University, which was completed between 1999 and 2003. Kirsten also completed an MBA with a focus on Supply Chain Management and Marketing at Willamette University between 2004 and 2006.