Lumos, with major High Point hub, hires new chief executive
Internet service provider Lumos, which has a major hub in High Point, said Tuesday it has hired Scott Mispagel as its chief executive.
Mispagel succeeds Brian Stading, who retired March 31. Stading has been chief executive of Lumos since August 2022, shortly after High Point-based NorthState merged with Lumos Network.
Lumos provides high-speed business and residential telecommunications services to portions of the Triad, including Kernersville and northern Winston-Salem.
Besides North Carolina, the fiber-optic ISP operates in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia. It has about 1,700 employees companywide, including several hundred in High Point.
Lumos said Mispagel and Stading will work over the coming weeks to ensure a smooth leadership transition as part of the company's planned succession.
Mispagel has more than two decades of leadership experience in telecommunications and fiber infrastructure in operational transformation, large-scale network expansion and organizational performance.
He most recently served as senior vice president of National Engineering & Operations at Frontier Communications, where he helped lead one of the largest fiber expansion initiatives in the United States.
In that role, he oversaw the delivery of more than 10 million fiber passings, directed multi-billion-dollar capital and operational investments, and managed a nationwide engineering and operations organization.
Earlier in his career, he held leadership positions at Windstream, GTE and other telecommunications organizations.
"The opportunity ahead is tremendous," Mispagel said. "Lumos has built something truly special.
"A strong company with a talented team, a clear vision for growth and a deep commitment to the customers, partners and communities it serves."
Stading said that "as Lumos enters its next phase of growth, I'm confident Scott's leadership experience and strategic vision make him the ideal person to guide the company forward."
"Serving as CEO of Lumos has been one of the greatest privileges of my career. I'm incredibly proud of what this team has accomplished, and excited to see what they will achieve together under Scott's leadership."
In April 2025, Lumos completed the formation of a joint venture with T-Mobile, which became the sole owner of Lumos.
The joint venture is projected to reach 3.5 million homes by the end of 2028 with T-Mobile pledging to make an additional $500 million investment during 2027 and 2028 to support further expansion.
Lumos has expanded from two to 10 states during his time as chief executive.
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