About Lanver Group | Principal-Led Infrastructure Advisory

Craig Rochester

Principal & Founder

30+ years · AT&T · Verizon · Cisco · Nokia · Ericsson · MBA, Emory University

Lanver Group was founded on a simple premise: large‑scale critical infrastructure decisions are too consequential to be left to generalists.

The firm draws on a vetted network of senior practitioners with deep operational backgrounds, delivering principal-led advisory without the overhead of a large consulting structure.

We work with utilities, transportation authorities, health systems, and industrial operators at the moments when responsibility for critical infrastructure is changing hands.

Same practice. New name.

Lanver Group is the continuation of Summit IoT. The leadership, the delivery approach, and the engagement record carry forward without interruption. The name changed in 2026 to reflect a scope that had grown past the original one. The figures below reflect that full history, not a standing start.

3,000+

Sites and core elements transitioned

16

Major network cutovers and core migrations led

$2B+

Infrastructure program value advised, designed, and transitioned

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Why Lanver Group

Large firms staff transitions with analysts and bill you while they learn your environment. Your own team knows the environment but has never run this particular handover. We sit in between: senior practitioners who have done the cutover before, engaged for the months it matters, gone when it is done. No bench to feed, no scope to expand, and no incentive to tell you what you want to hear.

How an engagement works

Three phases. You know where you stand at each one.

First two weeks: independent baseline

We read what exists, talk to the people actually doing the work, and give you a written read on what is ready, what is not, and what closing the gap will take. You keep that document whether or not the engagement continues.

Through the program: accountability and visibility

Decision rights, acceptance criteria, escalation paths, and reporting that reaches you early enough to act on. We challenge assumptions in the room, not in a deck three weeks later.

At handover: your team owns it

The measure is whether your people can run it without us. We document the gaps we closed, the ones you chose to accept, and who owns what going forward. Then we leave.

Engagements run on a monthly retainer. No change order for asking a question.

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