Cbeyond Chairman and CEO Jim Geiger Speaks at Harvard Business School Club Leadership Breakfast

Business Wire, Jan 16, 2008

ATLANTA -- Cbeyond([R]), Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY), a leading IP-based managed services provider to small businesses, announced that Jim Geiger, chairman and chief executive officer of Cbeyond, spoke at the Harvard Business School Club of Atlanta's Leadership Breakfast this morning at 8 a.m. EST at the Buckhead Club in the Atlanta Financial Center.

The Harvard Business School (HBS) Club of Atlanta is currently the sixth largest of the 93 HBS Clubs now operating in some 38 countries around the world. The Club serves more than 1,500 alumni living in the greater Atlanta metropolitan area and enjoys a participation level which is among the highest in the country.

The Leadership Breakfast Series connects Harvard Business School Club members with some of the world's most successful leaders in business who discuss the challenges facing their companies and their industries. Previous speakers include Mark Fields, president of The Americas Ford Motor Company, and Mark Lazarus, president of Turner Entertainment Group.

Geiger founded Cbeyond in 1999 and shared his experience in leading the company from its start up days to the present when it generates more than a quarter of a billion dollars of revenue on a run-rate basis and serves more than 33,000 customers. He also discussed the ways in which the culture of service at Cbeyond has helped it become one of the fastest growing publicly-traded companies in the country over the last several years and the ways in which its singular focus on its entrepreneurial customers has delivered benefits to them, to the community and to Cbeyond's shareholders.

"When we founded Cbeyond, we were fiercely committed to building a company we were proud of," said Jim Geiger. "We wanted to earn the loyalty of our customers and feel confident that they would refer us to others. We have achieved this goal by focusing on building the right team, with the right character."

Geiger was recognized as Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year for the Southeast region in 2007 and AeA's Technology Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006. Geiger was also recently honored with an entrepreneurship award from the Atlanta chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth.

About Cbeyond

Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY) is a leading IP-based managed services provider that delivers integrated packages of communications and IT services to more than 33,000 small businesses throughout the United States. Cbeyond offers more than 20 productivity-enhancing applications including local and long-distance voice, broadband Internet, mobile, BlackBerry(R), broadband laptop access, voicemail, email, web hosting, fax-to-email, data backup, file-sharing and virtual private networking. Cbeyond manages these services over a private, 100-percent Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) facilities-based network. For more information on Cbeyond, visit www.cbeyond.net.

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