NorthState announced that Jeff Chapman is joining the company as Executive Vice President, Operations, providing leadership around the company’s network expansion and customer operations, while playing a key role in NorthState’s offering of next-generation fiber services to support the growing array of applications requiring fiber infrastructure. The appointment is effective December 4, 2017. Mr. Chapman joins NorthState from Bridgepoint Communications Inc., where he served as Chief Executive Officer since February 2015. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President for Construction and Engineering at FiberLight, a fiber optic service provider, with responsibility for all engineering, construction and network design activities. He was previously a founding member and Vice President, Operations of fiber optic service provider PEG Bandwidth, leading PEG’s growth and operations in 14 states. Mr. Chapman will assume a number of the responsibilities of current Executive Vice President, COO Nick Kottyan, who is leaving the company at the end of the year. Mr. Kottyan joined NorthState in 2011 through the acquisition of DataChambers.