Board of Directors

President and CEO since March, 2015

Experience: Kenny Gunderman is President and Chief Executive Officer of Uniti Group Inc. He has 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and is focused on growing Uniti’s real estate portfolio of mission critical communications infrastructure. He has prior experience at Stephens, Lehman Brothers and KPMG. He currently serves on the board of the Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation, the Hendrix College Board of Trustees, and the NAREIT Board of Governors.

Education: Mr. Gunderman holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hendrix College and an MBA from Yale.

Chairman since 2014

Experience: Francis X. (“Skip”) Frantz has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors since our spin-off from Windstream. He previously served as a director of Windstream from 2006 until the spin-off, serving as Chairman of its Audit Committee at the time of his resignation from the Windstream board of directors. From July 2006 to February 2010, he served as Chairman of the Windstream board. Mr. Frantz served as the 2006 and 2007 Chairman of the Board and of the Executive Committee of the United States Telecom Association. Mr. Frantz served as Chairman of a community bank in Little Rock, Arkansas from February 2007 until May 2014 and serves as a director of a number of other privately held companies. Prior to January 2006, Mr. Frantz was Executive Vice President–External Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary of Alltel Corporation (“Alltel”). Mr. Frantz joined Alltel in 1990 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel and was appointed Secretary in January 1992 and Executive Vice President in July 1998. While with Alltel, he was responsible for Alltel’s merger and acquisition negotiations, wholesale services group, federal and state government and external affairs, corporate communications, administrative services and corporate governance, in addition to serving as Alltel’s chief legal officer.

Director since June, 2015

Experience: Mr. Solomon is a founder and Managing Director of Meritage Funds, a Denver-based manager of private investment funds. Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of NuVox Communications, Inc. until it was acquired by Windstream in 2010. A Certified Public Accountant (inactive status) with a strong operational and financial background, Mr. Solomon served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Brooks Fiber Properties (“Brooks”) immediately following its formation in 1993 until its sale to MCI/WorldCom in 1998. As Chief Financial Officer at Brooks, Mr. Solomon led numerous private and public debt and equity transactions, including Brooks’ initial public offering. Mr. Solomon worked in the audit practice of KPMG from 1981 until he joined Brooks. When Mr. Solomon departed KPMG, he was a Partner in the audit practice. In connection with Mr. Solomon’s responsibilities at Meritage Funds, he currently serves as a board member of several private companies.

Education: Mr. Solomon is a member of the American Institute and Tennessee Society of CPAs and serves on the board of trustees for his alma mater, Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Director since June, 2015

Experience: Ms. Banner is the Executive Director of the University of Tennessee Haslam College of Business Forum for Emerging Enterprises and Private Business (since June 2019). Previously, she served as CEO of Schaad Source, LLC,a strategic and managerial shared services company from 2006 until April 1, 2019; as CEO of Schaad Companies, LLC from 2008 through 2018; and as CEO of the Schaad Family Office from 2012 through 2018. Schaad Companies is a 109-year-old privately held real estate holding company with related businesses in residential and commercial construction, development, property management and leasing, real estate brokerage and land investments. Previously, Ms. Banner spent 22 years in public accounting, practicing in the tax area with Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst & Young LLP) in Florida and Pershing Yoakley & Associates in Tennessee. Ms. Banner has been a director of BB&T, now Truist Financial Corporation, since 2003 (presently serving as member of the executive committee, chair of the compensation committee, and member of the technology committee). She has been a member of Branch Banking and Trust Company, now Truist Bank, since 2013. Ms. Banner is also a member of the board of directors and chair of the audit committee of CDM Smith, Inc., a global engineering and design build construction company that is privately held. She is a past director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Nashville Branch), First Virginia Banks, Inc., and First Vantage Bank. In 2019, she was named an honorary Fellow of MIT Center for Information Systems Research.

Education: Ms. Banner earned a Master of Accountancy and Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee and maintains an active license as a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Tennessee.

Director since June, 2016

Experience: Mr. Bruce has served as President of Digital Landscape Group, Inc., a publicly listed company engaged in the aggregation of rental streams underlying wireless sites and related businesses, since February 2020. Mr. Bruce also has served as Managing Director of Associated Partners, LP, a private investment partnership focusing on creating, operating and investing in wireless communications companies, since its inception in 2007. In addition, Mr. Bruce has served as Managing Director and General Counsel of Liberty Associated Partners, LP, a predecessor investment vehicle, since 2000. He is also the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of AP WIP Investments, LLC and AP Tower Investments, LLC, both wireless infrastructure holding companies. Previously, Mr. Bruce was General Counsel and Secretary of Associated Group, Inc., a publicly traded company that owned various communications businesses, from 1994 to 2000, when it was sold to AT&T/Liberty Media. He also served as Vice President and General Counsel of Associated Communications Corporation, a publicly traded predecessor company to Associated Group, from 1992 to 1994, when the company sold its cellular telephone businesses to SBC/AT&T. Prior to joining Associated, Mr. Bruce practiced corporate law at Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1992. Prior to that, he worked as an auditor in the New York office of Touche Ross & Co. (predecessor to Deloitte) from 1983 to 1985. In connection with Mr. Bruce’s responsibilities at Associated, he has held various board memberships at private companies.

Education: Mr. Bruce holds an A.B. in History from Colgate University, an M.S. (Accounting) from the New York University Stern School of Business and a J.D. from the Villanova University School of Law.

Director since October, 2019

Experience: Ms. Perez-Carlton most recently served as an independent advisor for Crown Castle, Inc. (NYSE:CCI), a publicly-traded fiber infrastructure REIT, providing input and strategic guidance on matters related to mergers and acquisitions, strategy and business development opportunities from January 2017 to July 2019. Previously, she served as President of FPL FiberNet, LLC from 2007 until it was acquired by Crown Castle in January, 2017. Ms. Perez-Carlton also served as Vice President, Sales and Marketing and Director, Finance & Accounting with FPL FiberNet, LLC from March 2004 to January 2007. Prior to FPL FiberNet, LLC, Ms. Perez-Carlton served as Assistant Controller and Director, Revenue and Recovery for Florida Power & Light, Co., where she led all credit and collections strategies and processes. She started here career as an Audit Manager with Deloitte.

Education: Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Florida International University and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive status).

Recognitions: Ms. Perez-Carlton has served on multiple non-profit organization’s boards and was recognized in 2013 by Capacity Media as one of the top ten women in the telecommunications industry.