Frontier Communications taps R. Perley McBride as executive VP, CFO

R. Perley McBride. Photo courtesy Frontier Communications.

Frontier Communications Corp.Â has named R. Perley McBride as executive vice president and chief financial officer.

McBride succeeds John Jureller, who is stepping down to pursue other opportunities.

McBride has over two decades of experience in financial roles in the communications industry, including more than a decade at Norwalk-based Frontier earlier in his career, and was most recently CFO at Cable & Wireless Communications PLC.

“Perley is a highly respected finance leader in the communications industry and has unique insight into our business as a result of his prior roles here,” said Frontier President and CEO Dan McCarthy. “Perley will play an integral part in attaining the financial targets we have set for Frontier, including achieving Adjusted Free Cash Flow in the range of $825 million to $900 million in 2016, Adjusted EBITDA in excess of $4 billion in 2017, as well as our expense synergy target of at least $1.25 billion.”