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(Lenexa, KS) The board of Everfast Fiber Networks LLC (Everfast), a provider of high-speed data, telephony and video services to residential, commercial and carrier customers in Kansas City, is excited to announce the appointment of Scott Randall as CEO of Everfast. Randall joins Everfast from Peninsula Fiber Network where he was CEO-equivalent. Peninsula provides telecommunications, transport and broadband services throughout Michigan, Wisconsin, and areas of Minnesota. Jim Metcalfe, board member of Everfast, stated, “We are excited that Scott will be joining Everfast and believe his player-coach leadership style, industry knowledge, and experience driving operational change are an excellent fit with the challenges and opportunities facing Everfast. We have a great team of talented, hard-working and committed people at Everfast, and we believe Scott will support, enhance and grow the team to the next level. Scott understands the importance of Everfast’s local presence and has the requisite skills to help accelerate customer growth, expand margins, deliver first rate service, manage employee, community and lender stakeholder groups and deliver strategic opportunities such as BEAD and E-Rate.”

Everfast has nearly completed the complex process of achieving full standalone operations, after having been acquired as a divisional carveout from Consolidated Communications in December 2022. The journey has been made possible because of the efforts of the dedicated employees of Everfast, who value the opportunity to create a platform for growth headquartered, operated in and focused on Kansas City.

Jim Metcalfe and Said Nashashibi, board members of Everfast, want to thank Dado Slezak, a former Astatine Investment Partners employee, for acting as Interim CEO of Everfast. Jim stated, “Dado stepped up and brought energy, focus and detailed knowledge of the goals and objectives for the business. Dado worked with the team at Everfast step-by-step to replace the transition services provided by Consolidated Communications with standalone capabilities.”

Now Everfast needs a player-coach CEO to finish the transition of the company to a standalone business and to help the team execute the company’s business plan of regaining market share in Kansas City and establishing Everfast as a platform for growth. Randall is a hands-on executive with experience delivering such strategies and initiatives that will live and work in Kansas City.

Randall stated, “I am excited to join Everfast and capitalize on a company that can deliver the full range of services using an existing fiber and HFC network that passes 136,000 homes and 20,000 businesses and can expand into profitable new territory. I look forward to making Kansas City my home and being part of a local company in a community with values and a work ethic that match my own. I will be working with the team at Everfast to grow the business and deliver first rate service and opportunities for customers, employees, the community and debt and equity investors in the company.”