When Gavin Keirans stepped into the CEO position at Blue Stream Fiber in June 2025, he inherited a company with a strong Florida foothold and a fresh expansion into Houston. More than a year later, that footprint has grown to include Alabama and Georgia, bulk unit sales are up 42% year-over-year and Keirans has emerged as the architect of what he calls a “national, scalable platform” for community-based connectivity.
Keirans, who moved up from President and COO, inherited a 46-year-old bulk provider riding high on double-digit annual growth and full coverage across Florida. His task was translating regional density into a repeatable model that can permeate throughout the U.S.
“We made a decision to go to Houston,” Keirans says. “What we found was a lot of the channels that we were working with—particularly national developers and home builders, as well as if you think about asset owners in our space that own multiple portfolios of multi-dwelling units—[responded well to what we’d done]. Ultimately, we felt that the reputation and references we built in Florida were able to scale really across Florida, then Texas and now Alabama and Georgia.”
That channel-first logic, rather than a state-by-state land grab, defines Keirans’ approach. Blue Stream has identified roughly 10-15 target states concentrated in the Southeast and Southwest, screened for factors such as new-build density and legacy HOA footprint.
“We’re not trying to jump to X state or Y state,” he says. “It’s about being really thoughtful around working with our partners to grow [and] leveraging a lot of what made us successful in the past.”
The results back up the strategy. Beyond bulk unit growth, Blue Stream posted a 52% jump in bulk brownfield sales, launched service at 70 new properties and locked in 12 major renewals spanning more than 5,000 residential units—while adjusted EBITDA hit an all-time high. Keirans credits that consistent, scalable playbook with the company’s ability to serve single-family, mid-rise and high-rise communities alike.
That thinking extends to Blue Stream’s brownfield strategy, building fiber-enabled “smart-life” communities in areas served by incumbents like Comcast. Combined with new greenfield development, it’s given the company an “organic muscle” for growth. Under Keirans, Blue Stream has seen a 72% increase in referral generation.
“Gavin pairs a clear vision for where we’re headed with the discipline to actually get us there, and that’s what’s kept our culture strong while driving the growth we’ve seen this year,” says Blue Stream CRO Iain Urquhart.
Looking a few years out, Keirans sees Blue Stream becoming a top 10-to-15 ISP nationally. He’s quick to credit the team he’s assembled for Blue Stream’s accomplishments and upward trajectory. “It’s deeper trust in the management team that we’ve been able to assemble. It’s knowing that as you run the operations, you’re in every aspect of the day-to-day,” he says. “I have great confidence in what we’re able to build in the operation and what they’re able to deliver. That’s allowed me to pivot toward more of a true commercial focus and financial focus.”
When asked how Blue Stream acquaintances would describe him in one word, Keirans paused before landing on “committed.” It’s a fitting illustration for an executive whose growth story circles back to the same idea: that scaling a national platform starts with a deep bench that can go toe-to-toe with competitors.
Fast Facts
- Under Keirans’ leadership, Blue Stream improved its average time to repair by 25% YOY, while also reducing trouble calls by 59%.
- Before Blue Stream, Keirans spent nearly three years as VP, Strategy & Business Development for Optimum (formerly Altice USA), also making a stop at the Madison Square Garden Company as VP, Customer Experience.
- Adoption of Blue Stream’s proprietary AI platform grew from roughly 250 employees to nearly 400 over the past year, with the system processing an average of 50,000 transactions per month.