James F. Geiger
(Founder, Chairman, President & CEO)
J. Robert Fugate
(Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer)
Brent Cobb
(Chief Revenue & Customer Officer)
Robert R. Morrice
(Executive Vice President & Chief People Officer)
Christopher C. Gatch
(Sr. Vice President of Service Management & Chief Technical Officer)
Joseph A. Oesterling,
(Executive Vice President of Network and Technology)
Cbeyond, Inc. (formerly Cbeyond Communications) was a telecommunications and information technology company based in Atlanta, Georgia, until it was purchased by and became part of Birch Comm in July 2014. Founded in 1999 by Jim Geiger, Cbeyond, which developed the world's first 100% Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network, provided voice, data, mobile, and cloud services to over 60,000 small and medium-sized businesses in 14 markets across the domestic United States.