People: Cbeyond Inc (CBEY.O)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
James Geiger	53	1999	Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer
J. Robert Fugate	51	2000	Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President
Brooks Robinson	40	2010	President - Cloud Services
Joseph Oesterling	44	2010	Chief Information Officer, Executive Vice President - Network and Technology
Robert Morrice	63	1999	Chief People Officer, Executive Vice President - Sales and Service
N. Brent Cobb	42	2010	Chief Revenue and Customer Officer, Executive Vice President
Christopher Gatch	39	2010	Chief Technical Officer, Senior Vice President - Service Management
Henry Lyon	47	2004	Chief Accounting Officer
Paul Carmody		2012	Chief Marketing Officer
Kurt Abkemeier	42	2005	Vice President - Finance, Treasurer
Tim Myers		2012	Vice President - Cloud Engineering and Development
Jonathan Crane	58	2012	Director
Marvin Wheeler	56	2012	Director
Kevin Costello	50	2010	Independent Director
D. Scott Luttrell	57	2000	Independent Director
Martin Mucci	52	2008	Independent Director
David Rogan	54	2006	Independent Director
Larry Thompson	67	2010	Independent Director
Bonnie Wurzbacher	55	2011	Independent Director

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Biographies

Name	Description
James Geiger	Mr. James F. Geiger is Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer of Cbeyond Inc. He has been Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer since he founded Cbeyond in 1999. Prior to founding Cbeyond, Mr. Geiger was Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Intermedia Communications. Mr. Geiger was also in charge of Digex, Intermedia’s complex web-hosting organization, since acquisition and until just prior to its carve-out IPO. Before joining Intermedia, Mr. Geiger was a founding principal and CEO of FiberNet, a metropolitan area network provider, sold to Intermedia in 1996. In the 1980’s Mr. Geiger held various sales and marketing management positions at Frontier Communications, Inc. He began his career at Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP) and received a bachelor’s degree in accounting and pre-law from Clarkson University. In addition, Mr. Geiger serves on the Board of Trustees of the Marist School, an independent Catholic School of the Marist Fathers and Brothers and the Board of Directors of ReachLocal, a public company headquartered in Woodland Hills, CA, focused on online advertising and search optimization for small businesses. Mr. Geiger serves as both Chairman and CEO. He is the founder of Cbeyond and has led the Company and the Board since the Company’s inception.
J. Robert Fugate	Mr. J. Robert Fugate is Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Cbeyond Inc. He has been Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since 2000. Mr. Fugate leads financial and accounting operations, investor relations, legal and regulatory affairs and is a founder of Cbeyond. From 1988 until the founding of Cbeyond, Mr. Fugate served as chief financial officer for several communications and technology companies, including Splitrock Services, Inc., a nationwide Internet and data network services provider, and Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. (later SkyTel Communications Corp.), or Mtel, an international provider of wireless data services. Prior to joining Cbeyond, Mr. Fugate oversaw numerous public securities offerings, as well as other financial transactions, and was previously an investment banker at Prudential-Bache Securities. He began his career at Mobile Communications Corporation of America. Mr. Fugate serves on the boards of directors of the Technology Association of Georgia, the Adaptive Learning Center, a non-profit organization that assists children with developmental disabilities, and Whitefield Academy. Mr. Fugate received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Mississippi.
Brooks Robinson	Mr. Brooks A. Robinson is President - Cloud Services of Cbeyond Inc. He joined the Company in 2000 and served as President, Cloud Services during most of 2011; Mr. Robinson left Cbeyond to pursue other opportunities on December 31, 2011. Prior to co-founding Cbeyond, Mr. Robinson worked for Cambridge Strategic Management Group (CSMG), a strategy consulting firm in Boston, where he managed consulting engagements that focused on strategy development and business case due diligence for the telecom and high tech sectors. Previously, Mr. Robinson managed consulting engagements for Deloitte Consulting in Toronto and held various engineering positions at Nortel Networks in Ottawa. Mr. Robinson holds a bachelor of applied science degree in electrical engineering and management science from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and the University of Queensland (Australia).
Joseph Oesterling	Mr. Joseph A. Oesterling is Chief Information Officer, Executive Vice President - Network and Technologyof Cbeyond Inc. He is responsible for the development and support of all of operational support systems (OSS) and business support systems (BSS). He also provides executive oversight for business intelligence solutions, billing operations and facilities. He has led the creation of a next generation OSS featuring a degree of flow through provisioning and an industry customer self service website. Prior to joining, Mr. Oesterling held Information Technology leadership roles with Capital One, Security Capital Group, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Sony and IBM. Mr. Oesterling is active in the Atlanta community, serving on the boards of directors of Consumer Credit Counseling Services of Greater Atlanta, TechBridge, and Synchronicity Performance Group and serving as the chair of the Georgia CIO Leadership Association. Mr. Oesterling holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and bachelor degree in computer science from Purdue University.
Robert Morrice	Mr. Robert R. Morrice is Chief People Officer, Executive Vice President - Sales and Service of Cbeyond Inc. Mr. Morrice joined in 1999 as Executive Vice President, Sales and Service and was instrumental in building distribution and sales model. Mr. Morrice has recently taken over Human Resources, Training and Development. Prior to co-founding Cbeyond, Mr. Morrice was vice president of retail sales and an officer of Intermedia Communications. Prior to Intermedia, Mr. Morrice served at Sprint Communications in a variety of positions, including southeast regional director for National Accounts, and led sales efforts for Precision Systems, Inc., a Florida-based telecommunications software company. Mr. Morrice has a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from Campbell University and a master’s degree in education psychology from Wayne State University.
N. Brent Cobb	Mr. N. Brent Cobb is Chief Revenue and Customer Officer, Executive Vice President of Cbeyond Inc. He is responsible for customer facing operations and organizations. Previously, Mr. Cobb managed marketing communications, product management and development, account management, and was the general manager of the mobile product line. Prior to joining, Mr. Cobb was the founder and executive vice president of Strategy and Business Development of SK-EarthLink, a joint venture between SK Telecom and EarthLink, Inc. He also held a variety of senior management positions at Earthlink, Inc. including Vice President and General Manager, primarily in the wireless and Internet appliance business units. Mr. Cobb has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Clemson University and an MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.
Christopher Gatch	Mr. Christopher C. Gatch is Chief Technical Officer, Senior Vice President - Service Management of Cbeyond Inc. Mr. Gatch joined in 1999 as Vice President of Business Development, and later served as Vice President of Product Development, Vice President of Engineering, and CTO. Prior to co-founding Cbeyond, Mr. Gatch worked at Intermedia Communications, where his last role was senior director of strategic marketing, focusing on research and development of VoIP alternatives for the company. He also serves on the board of the SIP Forum and led the development of SIPconnect, the industry standard for SIP Trunking. Mr. Gatch has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Clemson University and a master’s degree in the management of technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Henry Lyon	Mr. Henry C. Lyon is Chief Accounting Officer of Cbeyond Inc. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Lyon was vice president and corporate controller and chief accounting officer for World Access, Inc., a provider of international long distance service focused on markets in Europe, from 2000 to 2004. Mr. Lyon also held positions as vice president and corporate controller for Nova Corporation, as principal for Broadstreet Development Company, LLC and as audit manager for Ernst & Young LLP. Mr. Lyon graduated from the University of Georgia in 1986 with a bachelor degree in Business Administration in Accounting.
Paul Carmody	Mr. Paul Carmody has been appointed as Chief Marketing Officer of Cbeyond, Inc., effective July 02, 2012. He joins Cbeyond with nearly two decades of IT marketing, product development and customer relations experience. Before joining Cbeyond, Carmody most recently served as the senior vice president of product management and business development at Internap, where he oversaw the company's managed and cloud hosting, colocation and enterprise IP and CDN units. During his tenure, Carmody led Internap's entry into the cloud marketplace via two cloud platforms. Previously, Carmody was senior vice president of marketing, product and strategy at Broadlane. He also served as vice president of product development at Rackspace where he helped build its first official product team and standardized the go-to-market process.
Kurt Abkemeier	Mr. Kurt J. Abkemeier is Vice President - Finance, Treasurer of Cbeyond Inc. He joined the Company in June 2005 and served during 2011 as Vice President of Finance andTreasurer; Mr. Abkemeier left Cbeyond to pursue other opportunities on March 31, 2012. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Abkemeier was director of finance and strategic planning at AirGate PCS, Inc., a regional wireless telecommunications service provider. Mr. Abkemeier also held various senior management positions within telecommunications-related companies and was a senior sell-side research analyst at JP Morgan & Co. analyzing telecommunications companies. Mr. Abkemeier holds a bachelor degree in applied economics from Cornell University.
Tim Myers	Mr. Tim Myers has been appointed as the Vice President - Cloud Engineering and Development of Cbeyond Inc. He joins Cbeyond with more than two decades of engineering experience, including web hosting, e-commerce, database, hardware and software, and virtualization. Before joining Cbeyond, Myers served as Senior VP, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Technology Infrastructure at SunTrust Banks in Atlanta.
Jonathan Crane	Mr. Jonathan C. Crane has been appointed as Director of Cbeyond Inc., effective 22 October 2012. He is chief commercial officer at IPsoft, where he is responsible for overall growth strategies. Before joining IPsoft he served as president and chairman of the board at Savvis, overseeing expansion of the company's cloud business. Prior to Savvis he rejoined a troubled Worldcom as chief strategy officer and led the company out of bankruptcy. Earlier in his career Crane held numerous executive positions in corporations such as Lightstream, Marcam Solutions, MCI, and ROLM.
Marvin Wheeler	Mr. Marvin Wheeler has been appointed as Director of Cbeyond Inc., effective 22 October 2012. Most recently he served as chief operating officer and chief strategy officer of Terremark, where he was instrumental in growing the company from a startup to a global cloud company acquired by Verizon for $2 billion. He has served on the Intel Capital Advisory Board as well as the Microsoft Service Provider Advisory Board and held the positions of founding member, secretary, executive director and chairman of the board of the Open Data Center Alliance, an independent IT consortium focused on growing cloud computing through open, interoperable standards. Mr. Wheeler currently serves as a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) Secure Government Communications (SGC) Scoping Subcommittee.
Kevin Costello	Mr. Kevin S. Costello is Independent Director of Cbeyond Inc. He is President of Ariba, Inc. In his role, he has executed the strategy and vision that has transformed Ariba into the global provider of cloud computing and commerce management solutions. Mr. Costello is charged with directing all of Ariba’s integrated global commercial units including sales, marketing, professional services, channels and The Ariba Network. He is regarded in the market in the Software as a Service (or “SaaS”) space with a focus on providing solutions that deliver immediate benefit through network enabled capabilities. Mr. Costello brings over 25 years of consulting and advisory experience in helping companies improve their competitive position through the use of technology, strategy and services that deliver sustaining results. Prior to joining Ariba, Mr. Costello served in multiple senior management positions during his 18 year tenure with Andersen Business Consulting. His role as a Global Managing Partner included responsibility for supply chain, advanced technologies and customer relationship management solutions. Mr. Costello holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Illinois and is a Certified Public Accountant.
D. Scott Luttrell	Mr. D. Scott Luttrell is Independent Director of Cbeyond Inc. He is the founder of LCM Group, Inc., an investment company based in Tampa, Florida specializing in alternative asset management and consulting services; including hedge fund, private equity and real estate investing. Since 1988, Mr. Luttrell has served as CEO of LCM Group, Inc. Mr. Luttrell served from 1991 through 2000 as principal and senior officer of Caxton Associates, LLC, a New York based diversified investment firm. Mr. Luttrell’s responsibilities with Caxton included Senior Trading Manager, Director of Global Fixed Income and a senior member of the firm’s portfolio risk management committee. Mr. Luttrell has diverse investment experience in private equity, foreign exchange, fixed income and the alternative investment asset class. Mr. Luttrell serves on the boards of directors of Florida Bank Group, Inc. and several private companies and is active in various academic and not-for-profit organizations, including Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business Executive Board, Southern Methodist University’s Center for the Study of Alternative Asset Management, and the Board of Directors of Honduras Outreach. Mr. Luttrell is founder and trustee of The Light Foundation, a Tampa based charitable foundation. Mr. Luttrell received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration/Finance from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and attended Harvard Business School’s Executive Education program in corporate governance.
Martin Mucci	Mr. Martin Mucci is Independent Director of Cbeyond Inc. He is President & CEO of Paychex, Inc., a provider of payroll, human resource and benefit outsourcing solutions for small and medium sized businesses serving over 564,000 clients generating over $2 billion in annual revenues. Prior to being appointed CEO in 2010, Mr. Mucci was Senior Vice President of Operations for Paychex and responsible for all operations and customer service as well as product management and information technology functions. Prior to joining Paychex, Mr. Mucci was the CEO of Frontier Telephone of Rochester and president of telephone operations with responsibility for the operations, customer service, and financial performance of Frontier’s local telephone companies. Mr. Mucci holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York and received an MBA through the University of Rochester’s William E. Simon Graduate School of Business. In 2007, he completed a two-year term as Chairman of the Rochester Business Alliance Board of Directors where he remains a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He is an immediate past Chairman of the St. John Fisher College Board of Trustees. Mr. Mucci also serves on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Upstate Advisory Board. In 1999, Mr. Mucci received the Excellence in Management Award from St. John Fisher College in recognition of his professional accomplishments in business and service to his community.
David Rogan	Mr. David A. Rogan is Independent Director of Cbeyond Inc. He has been retired since August 2009. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Rogan was Vice President of Cisco Systems, Inc. He was responsible for managing Cisco’s growing, global captive financial services company and wholly-owned subsidiary, Cisco Systems Capital, where he also served as its President and General Manager. Mr. Rogan previously served as Vice President, Treasurer for Cisco Systems and was responsible for worldwide treasury needs which include: funding and project financing; portfolio management; day-to-day cash management; risk management; global bank relations; foreign exchange and interest rate risk management; and stock administration. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Rogan was the Assistant Treasurer at Apple Computer, Inc. for more than four years, where his major responsibilities were worldwide funding, investments, and financial market risk management. He also spent more than five years with General Motors in New York in various treasury-related positions, most recently as Director of Foreign Exchange and International Cash Management. Mr. Rogan has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.
Larry Thompson	Mr. Larry D. Thompson is Independent Director of Cbeyond Inc. He is Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary for PepsiCo. Since October 2004, Mr. Thompson has been responsible for PepsiCo’s worldwide legal function, as well as its government affairs organization and The PepsiCo Foundation, which is PepsiCo’s philanthropic arm. From 2003 to 2004, Mr. Thompson served as a Senior Fellow with The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Mr. Thompson’s government career includes serving in the U.S. Department of Justice as Deputy Attorney General from 2001 to 2003 and the Department’s National Security Coordination Council in 2002. Mr. Thompson was also chosen to head the Corporate Fraud Task Force in 2002, where he led, among others, the Justice Department’s ongoing Enron investigation. From 1986 to 2001, Mr. Thompson was a partner in the Atlanta, Ga., law firm of King & Spalding, where he practiced in the Antitrust and Litigation Departments. Mr. Thompson also served as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia from 1982 to 1986, where he directed the Southern Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force and served on the Attorney General’s Economic Crime Council. During this time, he was also appointed Independent Counsel for the Department of Housing and Urban Development Investigation by the Special Panel of U.S. Circuit Court Judges appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court and was selected by the U.S. Congress to chair the Judicial Review Commission on Foreign Asset Control. In 2004, Mr. Thompson served as a visiting professor of law at the University of Georgia Law School. Mr. Thompson holds a Bachelor of Arts from Culver-Stockton College, a Master of Arts from Michigan State University, and a law degree from the University of Michigan.
Bonnie Wurzbacher	Mrs. Bonnie P. Wurzbacher is Independent Director of Cbeyond Inc. During her 27 year tenure at The Coca-Cola Company (the “Company”), Mrs. Wurzbacher has held various senior leadership roles in sales, marketing and management including: Senior Vice President, Global Customer & Channel Leadership; Vice President, Customer Strategy; Vice President, Southeast Area; Vice President, McDonald’s Account; and Assistant Vice President, Education Market. In 2004, she was given responsibility for a $1.6 billion portfolio of global customers, new business acquisition and the development of growth strategies for all key channels, working in close partnership with the Company’s franchised bottling partners around the world. In January 2011, Mrs. Wurzbacher accepted a special assignment to help launch a new global initiative called “5 BY 20” that will enable the economic empowerment of 5 million women by 2020. This initiative aims to create more jobs and business experience across the Company’s unparalleled value chain, with a focus on improving the capabilities of women who own or operate small businesses in developing countries. Her appreciation and passion for the critical role of business around the world has made her an effective voice for sustainable and ethical business practices. She is a frequent public speaker on this subject. Mrs. Wurzbacher graduated from Wheaton College (Illinois) with a B.A. in Education and later received her M.B.A. in General Management from Emory University in Atlanta. She currently serves as a trustee of Columbia Theological Seminary and is the immediate past chairperson of The Georgia Independent College Association. She has also served on the boards of Gordon Foodservice, The Network of Executive Women, The March of Dimes, and the Wheaton College Board of Visitors.

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
James Geiger	1,548,160
J. Robert Fugate	814,140
Brooks Robinson	846,694
Joseph Oesterling	648,733
Robert Morrice	740,930
N. Brent Cobb	619,115
Christopher Gatch	573,187
Henry Lyon	233,822
Paul Carmody	--
Kurt Abkemeier	--
Tim Myers	--
Jonathan Crane	--
Marvin Wheeler	--
Kevin Costello	--
D. Scott Luttrell	--
Martin Mucci	--
David Rogan	--
Larry Thompson	--
Bonnie Wurzbacher	--

As Of 30 Dec 2011

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
James Geiger	1,329,546	7,652,471
J. Robert Fugate	313,006	1,745,264
Brooks Robinson	116,991	1,585,555
Joseph Oesterling	120,437	1,680,952
Robert Morrice	337,868	4,694,283
N. Brent Cobb	0	0
Christopher Gatch	104,611	513,991
Henry Lyon	38,658	0
Paul Carmody	0	0
Kurt Abkemeier	0	0
Tim Myers	0	0
Jonathan Crane	0	0
Marvin Wheeler	0	0
Kevin Costello	0	0
D. Scott Luttrell	0	0
Martin Mucci	0	0
David Rogan	0	0
Larry Thompson	0	0
Bonnie Wurzbacher	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
GATCH CHRISTOPHER C	24,000	$9.20
GEIGER JAMES F	1,001	$7.43
FUGATE JOHN ROBERT	10,000	$0.00
LYON HENRY CHARLES	7,000	$0.00
GATCH CHRISTOPHER C	10,000	$0.00
COBB N BRENT	10,000	$0.00
OESTERLING JOSEPH A	10,000	$0.00
GEIGER JAMES F	25,000	$0.00
MORRICE ROBERT R	5,000	$0.00
LYON HENRY CHARLES	3,872	$0.00
GEIGER JAMES F	5,429	$7.54
COBB N BRENT	1,977	$7.54
MORRICE ROBERT R	8,357	$0.00
GATCH CHRISTOPHER C	4,947	$0.00
LYON HENRY CHARLES	1,174	$7.54
FUGATE JOHN ROBERT	2,715	$7.54
GATCH CHRISTOPHER C	1,500	$7.54
GEIGER JAMES F	17,906	$0.00
FUGATE JOHN ROBERT	8,953	$0.00
COBB N BRENT	6,519	$0.00
MORRICE ROBERT R	2,534	$7.54
OESTERLING JOSEPH A	6,519	$0.00
OESTERLING JOSEPH A	1,977	$7.54
LYON HENRY CHARLES	974	$7.17
MORRICE ROBERT R	584	$7.17

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