Cox Business today announced it has appointed Jeff Breauxas vice president of West Region Sales and Operations and Hyman Sukiennik as vice president of East Region Sales and Operations.

Sukiennik has been with Cox Business since 1998, most recently as vice president of the Cox Business Arizona operations. In this role, he led the dramatic expansion efforts of the Tucson and Phoenixmarkets, including growing the business by 20 percent per year and adding major public and private school systems as customers. Sukiennik also increased business in the healthcare, finance and technology sectors and secured one of the largest utility companies in the state as a customer. Previously, Sukiennik oversaw Cox Business operations in Omaha. Prior to Cox, Sukiennik was with AT&T in both global and mid-markets leadership positions. 

Breaux joins Cox Business from Sprint, where he spent 24 years in a variety of senior sales leadership roles. In his last position with the company, Breaux had responsibility for sales across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions and more than $500 million in annual revenue.  Instrumental in driving profitable growth of Sprint's global solutions portfolio across a variety of customer segments, channels and verticals, Jeff comes to Cox with extensive B2B technology leadership experience. 

Both executives will work out of the company's Atlanta headquarters.

"We are thrilled to have Jeff and Hyman join Cox Business' senior leadership team, as they have successful track records of driving profitability in the commercial sector," said Steve Rowley, senior vice president of Cox Business. "We are confident both executives will bring their industry experience, energy and leadership skills to their new positions and motivate their respective teams to significantly grow our operations and help provide the business communications solutions our customers expect and deserve."

Cox Business provides voice, data and video services for more than 300,000 small and regional businesses, including healthcare providers, K-12 and higher education, financial institutions and federal, state and local government organizations. The organization also serves most of the top tier wireless and wireline telecommunications carriers in the U.S. through its wholesale division.

According to Vertical Systems Group, Cox Business is one of the largest providers of business Ethernet services in the U.S. based on customer ports, and has been consistently recognized for its leadership among small/midsize business data service providers. Cox is currently the seventh largest voice service provider in the U.S. and supports one million phone lines.