Management Team

MegaPath brings together a world-class management team. The leaders have distinguished themselves over the past two decades in executive positions at top technology and communications firms in North America, including AT&T Canada, MetroNet, Brooks Fiber, U S WEST, MFS, PSINet and Sprint.

• D. Craig Young, Chairman and CEO
• James Cragg, President and COO
• Paul Milley, CFO
• Jim Smith, Interim CIO
• David Struwas , SVP CLEC Operations
• Steve Chisholm, SVP General Counsel
• Dan Foster, SVP GM of SMB Markets
• Tony Capers, SVP GM Enterprise Business Markets
• Steve Guastella, SVP Network Ops & Engineering
• Beth Tyebjee, SVP Marketing
• Greg W. Carver, SVP Customer Operations

D. Craig Young
Chairman and CEO

Craig Young has over 27 years of experience in the telecom and data communications industry. Since joining the company in July 2004, his primary focus has been to create a world class Managed IP Services company that provides businesses with the ability to outsource their communications between headquarters, branch offices, retail locations, mobile workers and business partners.

Prior to the merger between MegaPath and Netifice in April 2006, Mr. Young served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Netifice. Before joining Netifice, he was the Vice Chairman and Director of AT&T Canada, and also previously served as President. Prior to his appointment as Vice Chairman and President, which occurred with the $3.5 billion merger of MetroNet Communications and AT&T Canada in June 1999, he was the President and CEO of MetroNet Communications. MetroNet was Canada’s largest facilities-based competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) at the time. Before MetroNet, Mr. Young served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Brooks Fiber from 1995 to 1998, a pioneer local exchange carrier that was acquired by WorldCom for approximately $3 billion in 1998. From 1980 to 1995, Mr. Young held various executive level positions, including Vice President Sales, Ameritech Custom Business Services; Vice President Sales and Service for Business and Government Services, U S WEST Communications; and President, Executone Information Systems.

Mr. Young received a bachelor of science degree in business administration from California State University, Chico.

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James Cragg
President and COO

Jim Cragg has over 24 years of experience in the telecom and data communications industry. Mr. Cragg joined the company in March 2006 and is responsible for the day-to-day management of sales, marketing, operations, facilities and customer service.

Prior to joining MegaPath, Mr. Cragg was President and Chief Executive Officer of Linmor, Inc., a network management software company that built solutions for targeted vertical markets in healthcare, government, education, hospitality and energy sectors as well as for traditional telecommunication firms. During his career, Mr. Cragg has held positions as President and COO at PSINet, a leading ISP and hosting company; President and COO at Advanced Communications, a CLEC and Yellow Pages company; Regional VP at Brooks Fiber, a pioneering CLEC; and various management positions at MCI.

Mr. Cragg received a bachelor of art degree in history from the University of Texas – Austin.

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Paul Milley
CFO

Mr. Milley has over 20 years experience in finance, treasury, banking, planning, investor relations, information systems and all controllership activities for both public and private companies. He joined the company in October 2001 and is responsible for finance and administration.

Prior to joining MegaPath Mr. Milley was the SVP and CFO of OnCommand Corporation (OCC), which provides entertainment software and technologies to the hospitality industry. While in this capacity, he helped OCC increase earnings by over 60 percent through product enhancements, new technology deployment, tighter controls and expense efficiencies. Milley’s previous titles include VP and CFO of 3DO Corporation, SVP and CFO of ComputerLand Corporation, as well as positions in all levels of finance at other software and consulting organizations.

Mr. Milley received a bachelor of art degree from the University of Michigan and a masters of business administration from the Darden School at the University of Virgina.

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Steve Chisholm
SVP General Counsel

Steve Chisholm has practiced law for over 26 years and, for over a decade, has specialized in the telecommunications industry. Mr. Chisholm joined the company in August of 2004, and is responsible for supporting the growth of the organization through acquisitions and by managing its internal and external legal affairs.

Prior to this position, he served as a consultant to Bell West Inc., providing legal services and acting in the role of Executive Director, Legal Services. Previously, from October 2000 through September 2001, Mr. Chisholm served as the Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary to the Board at Global Metro Networks, Inc., a builder of dark fiber communication networks in major centers of business throughout Europe and the United States. He joined Global Metro from AT&T Canada, where he served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary from June of 1999. In October 2000, Mr. Chisholm was appointed to AT&T Canada's Board of Directors and remained on the Board until October, 2002, serving on several Committees of the Board including the Executive and Audit Committees. Prior to joining AT&T Canada, Mr. Chisholm served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at MetroNet Communications Corp., the first national CLEC in Canada, from 1997 until its arrangement with AT&T Canada in June of 1999.

Mr. Chisholm received a bachelor of art degree from Carleton University and a bachelor of laws degree from Osgoode Hall Law School.

Jim Smith
Interim CIO

Mr. Smith is presently the Interim CIO of MegaPath. His experience ranges from software development for the Cable TV industry while at Cabledata to most recently managing internal IT and operational support systems for Yipes, the nation's leading gigabit Ethernet company. In his varied career, Jim has held many positions in both IT and telecom operations. Prior to his position with Yipes, Mr. Smith was Senior Vice President of Operations for Futurelink, a Microsoft and Citrix ASP. His duties included all network and data center management for 6 worldwide data centers and customer care.

Previously Mr. Smith was senior vice president for Metronet and participated in the acquisitions of Rogers Communications and the subsequent acquisition of ATT Canada. While guiding the operations of Metronet, Mr. Smith was responsible for billing, provisioning, customer care and NOC operations. Mr. Smith joined Brooks Fiber as senior vice president of operations for the northern California division.

Mr. Smith has an undergraduate degree from Rutgers University and a master's degree from Texas A&M University.

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David Struwas
SVP CLEC Operations

David Struwas has over 27 years of experience in the telecom and data communications industry. He is responsible for all CLEC operations and outside sales for the Northeast footprint. Mr. Struwas was one of the original founders and served as President and CEO of DSL.net, Inc. prior to its acquisition by MegaPath. Previously, Mr. Struwas has also served as a consultant in the telecommunications industry, an interim CEO of DSLi, and has held key positions with Brooks Fiber- Worldcom, where he served as General Manager until August, 1998 and with Southern New England Telecommunications Corporation (now part of AT&T), where he served in various sales and marketing positions from 1980 to 1997, Director of Marketing, Director of Wholesale Sales, and various sales positions.

Mr. Struwas received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and MBA with majors in finance and marketing from UNH.

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Dan Foster
SVP, General Manager of SMB Business Markets

Mr. Foster has over 15 years experience in telecom and data communications industry. He has been with MegaPath since 2000, where he has been responsible for the sales and marketing efforts that grew the company from $5 million to nearly $90 million.

Prior to joining the company, Mr. Foster was President and CEO of Phoenix Networks.  Previously, he served as Vice President of Consumer Markets at Rhythms NetConnections, where he managed the company's entree and growth in the consumer market. Prior to Rhythms, Mr. Foster was a Partner and Vice President of Marketing for Analysis Group, Inc., a leading international management-consulting firm, where he consulted for both start-up and established companies to create and implement strategies in the telecommunications, Internet, high-tech and consumer product industries.

Mr. Foster received dual engineering and liberal arts degrees from Tufts University and graduated from the Harvard Business School executive PMD program.

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Anthony (Tony) G. Capers
SVP, General Manager of Enterprise Business Markets

Tony Capers has over 28 years of experience in the telecom and data communications industry. Mr. Capers joined the company in May 2006 and is responsible for enterprise, strategic and channel sales.

Prior to joining MegaPath, Mr. Capers served as Vice President of Sales for Frontier Communications.  Previously, he held the following positions with PSINet, an IP communications and hosting services company: President, US Delivery for Hosting/Data Centers, Network Infrastructure and Operational aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions; President, Xpedior, an IT consulting subsidiary; and President, Central Region.  Before PSINet, Mr. Capers served as VP and General Manager at Brooks Fiber, which was acquired by WorldCom, and Director, Sales and Service at US WEST Communications.

Mr. Capers received a bachelor of science degree in business administration from National College in Minneapolis.

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Steve Guastella
SVP, Network Ops & Engineering

Steve Guastella has over 20 years of experience in the telecom and data communications industry. He joined the company in December 2001 and is responsible for operations including engineering and technical support, and the Network Operations Centers (NOCs).

Mr. Guastella was VP of Operations of TManage prior to its acquisition by MegaPath. Previously, Mr. Guastella was a founder and Chief Architect & Vice President of Data Engineering for Vectris.  Before that, he served as Director of Network Operations for TNS/PSINet, and Strategic Marketing Manager for Legerity.  He also spent ten years at Sprint, where he held a variety of engineering and operations positions.

Mr. Guastella received a degree in electrical engineering technology from Old Domain University and NVCC.

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Beth Tyebjee
SVP, Marketing

Beth Tyebjee has over 28 years of experience in the telecom and data communications industry. Ms. Tyebjee joined the company in August 2004 and is currently responsible for marketing strategy, corporate communications and new product development and lifecycle management. During her tenure, she has had responsibility for the project management of enterprise customer deployments, access and CPE provisioning, and customer service.

Prior to MegaPath, Ms Tyebjee was a founder of Yipes Communications and served as the SVP Strategic Partnerships. In this capacity, she was responsible for developing the Yipes product sets, fiber infrastructure, and network operations centers. Before co-founding Yipes in 1999, Ms. Tyebjee was Vice President of Strategic Marketing at US West, where she created a substantial brand repositioning campaign, launched a series of new products and led the company’s cable business unit. Prior to 1996, while at Pacific Telesis, Ms. Tyebjee was responsible for product development, leading a series of new product initiatives including frame relay, SONET and ATM.  Additionally, she developed and led the first Bell Company internet access business, which became the fastest growing regional ISP within months of its launch.

Beth received a bachelor of science degree from the University of San Francisco and attended the Harvard Program for Management Development.

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Greg W. Carver
SVP, Customer Operations

Greg Carver has over 20 years of sales and operations experience in the telecommunications industry. Mr. Carver joined MegaPath in January 2007 and is responsible for provisioning, project management and customer support.

Prior to joining MegaPath, Mr. Carver served as Senior Vice President of Operations at GoRemote, and continued running global operations at iPass who acquired GoRemote in February 2006. Before joining GoRemote, he held positions as COO & General Manager of MercedNet, Inc., a private wireless facilities-based competitive local exchange carrier; Executive Director of Operations for BroadBand Office, a private voice and data networking company; Vice President Operations and Executive Director Operations, Strategic National Accounts at Williams Communications Group, a national network services and complex voice and data enterprise solutions company, as well as various engineering and operations positions at Nortel Networks.

Mr. Carver holds a telecommunications degree from Clover Park College of Washington State.

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