Biography

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

Mr. LaPerch is a Senior Advisor at South Reach Networks, a dark fiber and networks company, and is the principal of LaPerch Consulting, which provides services to private equity firms in the network, data center and cloud segments. 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 and NYNEX.

Mr. LaPerch is a member of the board of directors of Windstream Holdings, Inc., a provider of advanced network communications and technology solutions, and is on the board of directors of First Light, a provider of telecommunications services in upstate New York and New England. 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.