Zayo Strengthens Enterprise Growth Strategy with Appointment of Chris Ranalli as Chief Revenue Officer for Enterprise

Company evolves commercial leadership model to scale enterprise momentum and support next phase of growth

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zayo, a leading communications infrastructure provider, today announced the appointment of Chris Ranalli as Chief Revenue Officer for Enterprise, reinforcing the company’s commitment to scaling its enterprise business.

As enterprises modernize networks to support AI workloads, multi-cloud environments, and increasingly distributed operations, Zayo is sharpening its focus on delivering scalable, resilient connectivity solutions tailored to industry-specific needs. Ranalli’s appointment reflects Zayo’s evolved commercial strategy to align leadership around this accelerating growth engine.

Under this structure:

• Chris Ranalli joins as CRO for Enterprise, leading all enterprise industry verticals and Zayo’s indirect channel organization.
• Brian Daniels transitions to CRO for Infrastructure, leading large-scale digital infrastructure opportunities across hyperscalers, neocloud providers, data centers, carriers and the public sector.

“The needs of our digital infrastructure and enterprise customers are distinct and growing rapidly,” said Steve Smith, CEO of Zayo. “By creating focused leadership accountability around each segment, we are ensuring we can scale with discipline and deliver the performance and expertise our customers expect. Chris Ranalli brings deep experience scaling enterprise revenue organizations, and his leadership will be critical as we strengthen our enterprise execution and accelerate growth.”

Zayo has invested significantly in its enterprise organization over the last year, expanding enterprise-focused services and growing its network footprint. Pending the close of Zayo’s Crown Castle Fiber Solutions acquisition, the addition of metro-focused fiber assets will increase Zayo’s reach and density across key U.S. markets, deepening its ability to deliver high-performance fiber, wavelength, and connectivity solutions to enterprise customers. Upon close, the acquired enterprise customers and sales organization will join Ranalli’s portfolio, aligning leadership and operations to support a seamless experience for customers while strengthening Zayo’s enterprise capabilities at scale.

About Chris Ranalli

Ranalli brings more than 25 years of sales leadership and engineering experience, most recently serving as CRO at Aryaka, where he led global revenue teams supporting enterprise customers navigating cloud transformation and modern networking demands. He has a proven track record of building high-performing, customer-centric revenue organizations and driving disciplined, scalable growth.

“Enterprise customers are navigating an inflection point, balancing AI adoption, cloud expansion, and increasing performance demands across distributed environments,” said Ranalli. “Zayo’s owned fiber network, expanding footprint and channel strength uniquely position us to simplify that complexity and serve as a trusted partner. My focus is on building a world-class enterprise growth engine that helps customers modernize with confidence.”

About Zayo

For more than 18 years, Zayo has empowered some of the world’s largest and most innovative companies to connect what’s next for their business. The Zayo group of companies connects 400 global markets with future-ready networks that span over 19.9 million fiber miles and 148,000 route miles. Zayo’s tailored connectivity solutions and managed services enable carriers, cloud providers, data centers, schools, and enterprises to deliver exceptional experiences, from core to cloud to edge. Discover how Zayo connects what’s next at www.zayo.com and follow us on LinkedIn.