“As one of the nation’s largest facilities-based local services competitors to the regional Bell operating companies, it is critical that we drive maximum efficiency from our operations while ensuring that our products are competitive and our organization is customer-solutions oriented,” said Carl Grivner, CEO of XO. “Toward that end, we have created a new role of chief operating officer and named Wayne Rehberger to fill the position. As XO’s chief financial officer for the past three years, Wayne has been involved in all aspects of our operations and has played an instrumental role in improving XO’s operational and financial performance.
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In addition to Rehberger, the new management team, reporting directly to Carl Grivner, are Lee Weiner, senior vice president and general counsel, Bill Garrahan, acting chief financial officer and senior vice president of business development, Terri Burke, vice president of human resources, Doug Sobieski, vice president of broadband wireless services. The remaining members, reporting to Rehberger, are Tom Cady, chief marketing officer, Matt Harty, president of commercial sales, Ernie Ortega, president of carrier sales, Rob Westervelt, president of indirect sales and Mark Faris, senior vice president of network operations
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“We are moving very quickly to integrate the assets of Allegiance Telecom with XO, bringing together the best from both companies in terms of people, network facilities, technology and business processes,” said Grivner. “With our new senior management team, we can move even faster to put into place what is one of the nation’s largest facilities-based providers of national local telecommunications services to businesses.”
