Technology >> CEO Interviews >> October 16, 2001
JAMES F. GEIGER is the Founder, President and CEO of Cbeyond
Communications, the leader in the emerging local voice and broadband
services carrier market. Headquartered in Atlanta, Cbeyond is the first
service provider to build from the ground up an integrated, pure-IP
network for local telephony and broadband Internet access. Prior to
founding Cbeyond, Mr. Geiger was Senior Vice President and Chief
Marketing Officer of Intermedia Communications, an integrated
communications provider. 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 he joined Intermedia, Mr.
Geiger was a founding principal of FiberNet; before becoming president
and CEO, he was FiberNet's service president of sales and marketing. In
the late 1980s Mr. Geiger held various sales and marketing management
positions at Frontier Communications, Inc. He began his career at Price
Waterhouse and received his bachelor's degree in public accounting and
pre-law from Clarkson University. Profile
evolution of Cbeyond Communications?
Mr. Geiger: We founded Cbeyond to provide a package of broadband
services to small
