About Us: Management Team

An industry veteran, Dan Caruso has 21 years of experience in the telecommunications and Internet industries. Dan is currently CEO of Zayo Group, a regional provider of telecom services comprised of three complimentary business units. Zayo Bandwidth is focused on providing highly reliable fiber-based bandwidth solutions to targeted customers. Onvoy Voice Services delivers wholesale voice services to carriers and LEC’s, and Zayo Managed Services focuses on providing converged IP services to small and medium enterprises. Under Dan’s direction, each business unit concentrates specifically in its area of excellence and tailors offerings to fit customers’ needs.

Prior to Zayo, Dan was President and CEO of ICG Communications, a major provider of telecommunications and Internet service. In a buyout led by Dan in 2004, ICG was purchased by Columbia Capital and M/C Venture Partners. Dan and his team propelled ICG to become a profitable and positive cash flow company while realizing double-digit revenue growth. Level 3 Communications purchased ICG in 2006, marking the culmination of one of the more successful telecom investment stories in the post-bubble era. Dan was also a founding executive member and officer of Level 3, where he was group vice president of Lines of Business and Marketing and group vice president of Network Services. Previously, Dan was a senior vice president at WorldCom and MFS Communications, where he had various responsibilities in business development, network planning, and operations. Dan began his career at Ameritech (now part of AT&T) in an executive management program.

Dan is active in telecom and related industries, serving as chairman of Envysion, a venture backed company providing Internet-based video surveillance services and sits on the board of NGT Communications, a leading provider of wholesale VoIP services. Dan is active in local philanthropy and since 2003 has been on the board of Colorado Uplift, a charity focused on supporting Denver inner-city youths. Dan holds a MBA from the University of Chicago and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. Dan maintains an interesting and informative blog at www.BearOnBusiness.com.

John Scarano has 19 years of experience in the wireline and wireless communications industries. John was most recently EVP of Corp Development and Operations of ICG responsible for strategy, acquisitions and divestitures, business development and various other operations. John is on the board of VoicePipe and is an observer on the board of NGT.

John began with Level 3 Communications at its inception and was responsible initially for the development and build-out of Level 3's North American intercity backbone network, local networks and facilities. These were completed ahead of schedule within 33 months for $6.2B. John then founded and led the company's Global Business Development group and had the lead role in closing more than 30 transactions valued at approximately $1.6B.

John held various executive and staff positions in global operations and business development at MFS Communications (acquired by WorldCom) and AT&T. While at AT&T, John was responsible for the commercial delivery of the first digital air-to-ground communications system. John was an elected Town Board member in Orange County, NY, for 7 years holding the elected offices of Councilman and Deputy Supervisor.

John earned a combined degree in Business Administration and Computer Science from the State University of NY at Albany in 1987.

Ken desGarennes has 12 years of experience in technology and communications, most recently as the CFO of Wire One Communications. Wire One, the largest international provider of videoconferencing solutions in the market, was created through the acquisition and integration of three videoconferencing properties. In addition to leading the acquisition and integration efforts, Ken was responsible for raising debt and building a world class finance organization.

Prior to joining Wire One, Ken was a Senior Director at the Gores Group, a technology focused private equity firm. While at the Gores Group, Ken led the financial due diligence and negotiations on numerous acquisitions in both the telecom and technology market. Ken started his career as a commercial banking officer with First Union Bank before moving to Accenture where he worked for 6 years in a corporate development role.

Ken received his BS in finance from the University of Maryland in College Park.

Scott Beer has 15 years of experience in the legal field, with an emphasis on telecommunications. He most recently worked for Level 3 Communications as VP of Carrier Relations, responsible for vendor relations covering $1.8 billion in network expenses. Prior to Level 3’s acquisition of ICG Communications, Scott was VP and General Counsel of ICG, overseeing all legal and regulatory matters for the company. Scott started with ICG as Director of Government Affairs handling all state and federal regulatory matters and providing legal support to new product development.

Before starting with ICG, Scott was in house counsel at MCI WorldCom supporting the Mass Markets Finance Department for three years. He began his legal career as an associate attorney for a Denver law firm, where he was a commercial litigator and represented several large communication companies.

Scott holds a Juris Doctorate from Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University. He earned his B.A. from Michigan State in Communications and Pre-law.

Fritz Hendricks has more the 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Zayo, Fritz was COO of Onvoy. At Onvoy he was responsible for Engineering, Operations, Information Technology, Product Innovations, Product Management, Market Development and Customer Care.

Fritz started his career working at Cox Communications delivering competitive telecom services using a hybrid fiber coax system. After Cox, he had a 17 year career with US WEST (now Qwest) where he held leadership positions in center and field operations, next generation business and technology planning, engineering, and systems automation culminating as the Vice President of Operations for Qwest Global Services.

Fritz serves as the Chairman of the Minnesota Telecom Alliance Technology and Engineering Board and has also served on the Best Prep Tech Corp Board of Directors, a non profit organization that supports the advancement of technology education in public schools.

Fritz holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Bellevue and is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon Information Networking Institute for Advance Telecommunication Innovation.

Dennis has 18 years of experience in the wired and wireless Telecommunications industry. Dennis was most recently Senior Vice President, Small to Medium Enterprise and Indirect Channels for Level 3 where he was responsible for developing and implementing the company’s go to market strategy in that portion of the enterprise market. While at Level 3, Dennis was also responsible for the management of a set of services with annual revenues approaching $750M and successfully developed and launched several products into the carrier, ISP and enterprise space. Prior to the Level 3 acquisition of ICG, Dennis served as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for ICG Communications where he participated in the company’s successful “turn-around” and sale to Level 3.

Dennis began his career at IBM during the period of time when IBM owned Rolm Systems (now a division of Siemens). Subsequent to IBM, Dennis joined McCaw Communications (acquired by AT&T) where he gained experience with the wireless aspects of voice and data telecommunications, participating in Operations, Finance and Marketing as part of an executive training program. Next Dennis joined, Nextlink/XO Communications at its inception, where he served as a Vice President of Marketing as well as VP/GM for the Colorado market.

Dennis holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University as well two Masters Degrees from Stanford University: An MBA with Marketing Emphasis and an M.A. in “Development Economics.”