Biography

William G. LaPerch has served as a director since 2013 and is currently Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and a member of our Audit Committee.

Mr. LaPerch is the principal of LaPerch Consulting, which provides services to private equity firms in the network, data center and cloud segments. Previously, Mr. LaPerch was a Senior Advisor at South Reach Networks, a dark fiber and networks company. Mr. LaPerch served as the Executive Chairman at Hylan Datacom, a construction services company in the communications infrastructure space and was Chief Executive Officer, President and a member of the board of directors at AboveNet, Inc., a provider of bandwidth infrastructure services. Previously, Mr. LaPerch served as President, Network Services and President, Enterprise Services for Metromedia Fiber Network, a provider of metro fiber services, and held various operations and engineering positions at MCI Worldcom, Inc.

Mr. LaPerch is a member of the board of directors of First Light Fiber, a telecommunications services provider, and a member of the board of managers of ITG Communications, LLC, a service provider to broadband operators and electric cooperatives. Mr. LaPerch is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and received a Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia University. He also has successfully completed the Carnegie Mellon Cyber Security program for directors.