John Chapple is President of Hawkeye Investments LLC, a private equity firm. Hawkeye is principally focused on new ventures in the telecommunications industry frequently working in conjunction with Rally Capital LLC.
Mr. Chapple worked to organize Nextel Partners throughout 1998 and was President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Nextel Partners and its subsidiaries since August 1998. Mr. Chapple, a graduate of Syracuse University and Harvard University's Advanced Management Program, has 24 years of experience in the cable television and wireless communications industries.
From 1978 to 1983, he served on the senior management team of Rogers Cablesystems before moving to American Cablesystems as Senior Vice President of Operations from 1983 to 1988. From 1988 to 1995, he served as Executive Vice President of Operations for McCaw Cellular Communications and subsequently AT&T Wireless Services following the merger of those companies.
From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Chapple was the President and Chief Operating Officer for Orca Bay Sports and Entertainment in Vancouver, B.C. During Mr. Chapple's tenure, Orca Bay owned and operated Vancouver's National Basketball Association and National Hockey League sports franchises in addition to the General Motors Place sports arena and retail interests. Mr. Chapple is the past Chairman of the Cellular One Group and the Personal Communications Industry Association, past Vice-Chairman of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and has been on the Board of Governors of the NHL and NBA. Mr. Chapple currently serves on the Syracuse University Board of Trustees and the Advisory Board for the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He is also on the Board of Directors of Seamobile, a company providing integrated wireless services at sea; and on the advisory board of Diamond Castle Holdings, LLC, a private equity firm based in New York City.
Founder, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
James F. Geiger has been Cbeyond's Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer since he founded the company in 1999.
Prior to founding Cbeyond, Mr. Geiger was Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Intermedia Communications. He was also in charge of Digex, Intermedia's complex web-hosting organization, since acquisition and until just prior to its carve-out IPO.
Before he joined Intermedia, Mr. Geiger was a founding principal and CEO of FiberNet, a metropolitan area network provider, which was 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 directors of the Marist School, an independent Catholic School of the Marist Fathers and Brothers, the Hands On Network, a national volunteer organization that promotes civic engagement in communities, and ReachLocal, a privately held, venture capital-backed company headquartered in Woodland Hills, CA, focused on online advertising and search optimization for small businesses.
Director, Madison Dearborn Partners Madison Dearborn Partners
Douglas C. Grissom, Director - A.B., Amherst College; M.B.A., Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Prior to joining MDP, Mr. Grissom was with Bain Capital, Inc. in private equity, McKinsey & Company, Inc., and Goldman, Sachs & Co. Mr. Grissom concentrates on investments in the communications sector and currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Cbeyond Communications, LLC, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation, Intelsat Holdings Ltd., and the Childrens' Inner City Educational Fund.
D. Scott Luttrell is the founder and CEO of LCM Group, Inc., a Tampa based investment company specializing in funds management and financial consulting services, alternative asset, private equity and real estate investing.
Mr. Luttrell served from 1991 through 2000 as principal and senior officer of Caxton Associates, LLC, a New York based diversified investment firm. 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.
Luttrell has diverse investment experience in private equity, foreign exchange, fixed income and the alternative investment asset class. Luttrell serves on the Board of Directors of several private companies.
Mr. Luttrell was a member at the Chicago Board of Trade from 1978 through 2002, where prior to formation of LCM Group, Inc. in 1988, he was involved in various trading and investment activities as an officer and partner of Chicago based TransMarket Group and related entities.
Mr. Luttrell received his college degree in Business Administration/Finance from Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas.
Mr. Luttrell is active in various community service organizations, including serving as the Chairman of the Board of the Tampa Metropolitan YMCA and a Board of Director member of Young Life Southeast Region and Honduras Outreach International. Luttrell is founder and trustee of The Light Foundation, a Tampa based charitable foundation.
Member of the Audit Committee
Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Senior Vice President of Operations, Paychex, Inc. Paychex, Inc.
Paychex, Inc.
As Senior Vice President of Operations for Paychex, Martin Mucci is responsible for all operations and customer service for the company's 572,000 payroll and human resources services clients, as well as the company's product management and information technology functions. Managing $2 billion in annual revenue from clients and responsible for the movement of over $500 billion dollars annually in client funds, the operations team is comprised of 8,000 employees in 85 locations across the United States.
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 34 local telephone companies.
Mr. Mucci holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York and received a master's degree in business administration through the Executive Development Program at 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. Mr. Mucci remains a member of the RBA Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He is currently chairman of the St. John Fisher College Board of Trustees. Mr. Mucci also serves as the chairman of the Catholic Family Center Board of Governors. He is a past chair of the Rochester Walk to Cure Diabetes to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). Mr. Mucci is a past member of the United Way of Greater Rochester Board of Directors and Finance Committee, as well as a past member of the New York State Business Council Board of Directors and the Industrial Management Council of Rochester (now part of the Rochester Business Alliance).
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.
Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
James N. Perry Jr.
Managing Director, Madison Dearborn Partners Madison Dearborn Partners
Prior to co-founding MDP, Mr. Perry was with First Chicago Venture Capital for eight years. Previously, he was with The First National Bank of Chicago. Mr. Perry concentrates on investments in the communications industry and currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Nextel Partners, Allegiance Telecom, Focal Communications, Madison River Telephone Company and Band-X. Mr. Perry received his B.A. from University of Pennsylvania and his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Mr. Rogan has been retired since 2009. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Rogan served as President for Cisco Systems Capital Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc., and as Vice President at Cisco Systems. He previously served as Vice President, Treasurer for Cisco Systems. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Rogan was the Assistant Treasurer at Apple Computer, Inc. and held various treasury-related positions with General Motors. Mr. Rogan has a B.S. degree from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Chairman and CEO, Black Diamond Group, Inc. Black Diamond Group
Robert Rothman is Chairman and CEO of Black Diamond Group, Inc. and Chairman of Bank of St. Petersburg Holdings, Inc. in Tampa, Florida. He was Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Consolidated International Group, Inc., which owned and operated insurance companies in Europe and North America, from 1987 to 1999.
Prior to founding the Consolidated Group of companies in 1987, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Beneficial Insurance Group. Mr. Rothman began his career with Ernst & Whinney in New York after graduating from the University of Chicago.
He obtained a B.A. Degree in Economics from Queens College of the City University of New York, and an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.
Mr. Rothman is a member of the Advisory Council for the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business; Vice-Chairman of the Board of H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute Hospital, Inc.; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Academy of the Holy Names; and currently supports several other community non-profit institutions.
Senior Vice President – Government Affairs, General Counsel & Secretary, PepsiCo PepsiCo
Larry Thompson is Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, General Counsel, and Secretary for PepsiCo. He is responsible for PepsiCo's worldwide legal function, as well as its government affairs organization and the company's charitable Foundation.
Mr. Thompson assumed his position in October 2004. He most recently served as a Senior Fellow with The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and his government career includes serving in the U.S. Department of Justice, where his role as Deputy Attorney General included supervision of overall operations. In 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft named Mr. Thompson to lead the National Security Coordination Council. Also in 2002, President Bush named Thompson to head the Corporate Fraud Task Force. He led the Justice Department's Enron investigation.
Previously, Mr. Thompson was a partner in the Atlanta, Georgia law firm of King & Spaulding. From 1982-1986, Mr. Thompson served as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. In that role, he directed the Southern Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force and served on the Attorney General's Economic Crime Council. In July 1995, Mr. Thompson was 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. In April 2000, Mr. Thompson was selected by Congress to chair the Judicial Review Commission on Foreign Asset Control.
Mr. Thompson serves on the Board of Directors of various Franklin, Templeton and Mutual Series Funds, the United Negro College Fund, and the National Center for State Courts. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of The Arch Foundation for the University of Georgia and is an elected Fellow of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers. He is also the recipient of the Edmund Jennings Randolph Award for outstanding contributions to the accomplishment of the Department of Justice's mission, Outstanding Litigator Award by the Federal Bar Association, and the A. T. Walden Award for outstanding accomplishments to the legal profession by the Gate City Bar Association, Atlanta, Georgia. Recently, the publication Ethisphere described Mr. Thompson as "one of the most respected and admired general counsel in business today." He holds a B.A. from Culver-Stockton College, an M.A. from Michigan State University, and a law degree from the University of Michigan. In 2004, Mr. Thompson added another chapter to his academic career as a visiting professor of law at the University of Georgia Law School.
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John Chapple
President, Hawkeye Investments LLC
Member of the Compensation Committee
James F. Geiger has been Cbeyond's Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer since he founded the company in 1999. 
Chair of the Compensation Committee
D. Scott Luttrell is the founder and CEO of LCM Group, Inc., a Tampa based investment company specializing in funds management and financial consulting services, alternative asset, private equity and real estate investing.
Paychex, Inc.
As Senior Vice President of Operations for Paychex, Martin Mucci is responsible for all operations and customer service for the company's 572,000 payroll and human resources services clients, as well as the company's product management and information technology functions. Managing $2 billion in annual revenue from clients and responsible for the movement of over $500 billion dollars annually in client funds, the operations team is comprised of 8,000 employees in 85 locations across the United States.
Prior to co-founding MDP, Mr. Perry was with First Chicago Venture Capital for eight years. Previously, he was with The First National Bank of Chicago. Mr. Perry concentrates on investments in the communications industry and currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Nextel Partners, Allegiance Telecom, Focal Communications, Madison River Telephone Company and Band-X. Mr. Perry received his B.A. from University of Pennsylvania and his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
Robert Rothman is Chairman and CEO of Black Diamond Group, Inc. and Chairman of Bank of St. Petersburg Holdings, Inc. in Tampa, Florida. He was Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Consolidated International Group, Inc., which owned and operated insurance companies in Europe and North America, from 1987 to 1999.
