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Item 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

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Item 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Our executive officers and their respective ages and positions as of February 18, 2025 are set forth below:

Steven O. Vondran54President and Chief Executive Officer
Rodney M. Smith59Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Ruth T. Dowling55Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Secretary
Juan A. Font56Senior Vice President, President and CEO, CoreSite
Sanjay Goel57Executive Vice President and President, Asia-Pacific
Robert J. Meyer61Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
Eugene M. Noel56Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
Olivier Puech57Executive Vice President and President, International
Richard C. Rossi49Executive Vice President and President, U.S. Tower

Steven O. Vondran is our President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Vondran joined us in 2000 as a member of our corporate legal team and served in a variety of positions, including Senior Vice President, U.S. Leasing Operations, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, U.S. Tower Division, Executive Vice President, U.S. Tower Division, and most recently, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Vondran joined the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) board in September 2018, and he served on the board of the Wireless Infrastructure Association (WIA) between 2018 and 2024. Mr. Vondran is a member of the Business Roundtable. Prior to joining us, Mr. Vondran was an associate at the law firm of Lewellen & Frazier LLP, served as a telecommunications consultant with the firm of Young & Associates, Inc., and was a Law Clerk to the Hon. John Stroud on the Arkansas Court of Appeals. Mr. Vondran currently serves on the board of directors of Ameren Corporation. He received his J.D. with high honors from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Business from Hendrix College.

Rodney M. Smith is our Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. He is also chair of the board of directors of ATC Europe. Mr. Smith joined us in October 2009, and previously held the roles of Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance and Treasurer and Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of American Tower’s U.S. Tower Division. Prior to joining us, Mr. Smith served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and as a general board member of Lightower, a private equity backed wireless infrastructure company. Prior to Lightower, he served as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer (and earlier as Vice President and Controller) for RoweCom, a publicly traded company with operations in eight countries. Early in his career, Mr. Smith held several leadership positions at Nextel Communications, including Director of Finance and General Manager of one of the company’s Northeast markets. Mr. Smith earned his M.B.A from Suffolk University, a Certificate of Accountancy from Bentley University and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Merrimack College. He also serves as co-Executive Sponsor of American Tower’s employee resource group for women, WAATCH.

Ruth T. Dowling is our Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Secretary. She is also a member of the board of directors of ATC Europe and of CoreSite. Ms. Dowling joined us in 2011, and previously held the roles of Senior Vice President, Corporate Legal, and Senior Vice President and General Counsel for the EMEA and Latin America regions. In addition, she led American Tower’s Global Remobilization Project Team to care for the safety and well-being of employees during the pandemic. Prior to joining us, Ms. Dowling was a partner and co-chair of the 150-member litigation department at Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP and clerked for the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Dowling earned her law degree from Duke University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She also serves as co-Executive Sponsor of American Tower’s employee resource group for women, WAATCH.

Juan A. Font is our Senior Vice President and President and CEO, CoreSite. He is also a member of the board of directors of ATC Europe. Mr. Font is responsible for leading the strategy, innovation and growth to achieve CoreSite’s vision of empowering a more connected future by increasing revenue growth and return on invested capital to the American Tower data center portfolio. Mr. Font joined CoreSite in 2010 and has held positions of increasing responsibility within the organization. He has more than 25 years of experience in general management, direct sales, business operations, and finance in the data center and telecommunications industries. Prior to joining CoreSite, Mr. Font held direct sales contributor roles with Equinix, covering strategic verticals. He also held positions of increasing responsibility with Teleglobe in financial management and business operations across European markets and increased his understanding of capital-intensive industries at The World Bank Group, where he oversaw investments in the power sector. Mr. Font received an M.B.A. from The Kogod School of Business at

The American University and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics and Finance from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid.

Sanjay Goel is our Executive Vice President and President, Asia-Pacific. Mr. Goel joined us in March 2021. Prior to joining us, Mr. Goel was with Nokia, where he started in the mobile networks division in 2001. During his time at Nokia, he held various sales and business management positions, including Head of the Managed Services Business Line for Asia Pacific, Japan and India and Vice President of the Global Services Business Unit, APAC and Japan. Mr. Goel also led Nokia’s Global Services business across Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and created a new sales and business development division within Global Services, based in Finland. Most recently, he served as President of the Global Services business group and Nokia Operations. Mr. Goel began his career at ABB and IBM, prior to joining Nokia. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with specialization in Electronics and Communications from Manipal Institute of Technology.

Robert J. Meyer is our Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer. Mr. Meyer joined us in August 2008 as our Senior Vice President, Finance and Corporate Controller and served in that role until January 2020 when he was appointed to his current position. Prior to joining us, Mr. Meyer was with Bright Horizons Family Solutions since 1998, a provider of child care, early education and work/life consulting services, where he most recently served as Chief Accounting Officer. Mr. Meyer also served as Corporate Controller and Vice President of Finance while at Bright Horizons. Prior to that, from 1997 to 1998, Mr. Meyer served as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at First Security Services Corp. Mr. Meyer earned a Masters in Finance from Bentley University and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Marquette University, and is a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Meyer serves as non-executive chair on the board of directors of ATC CSR Foundation in India.

Eugene M. Noel is our Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He is also a member of the board of directors of CoreSite. Mr. Noel joined us in 2011, and previously held the roles of Executive Vice President and President, U.S. Tower Division and Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Tower Division. Mr. Noel has more than 25 years of network deployment experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining us, he was Vice President of Network Development for LightSquared (now Ligado Networks), with responsibility for the development and implementation of the company’s national network deployment strategy. He spent 11 years with Sprint Nextel, beginning as Director of Radio Services, then becoming Vice President for Northeast Site Development, and finally becoming Vice President for National Site Development. Mr. Noel is a graduate of East Carolina University with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and has earned an Executive Certificate from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Mr. Noel is a board member of the WIA and a former board member of the Tower Families Foundation and Warriors4Wireless.

Olivier Puech is our Executive Vice President and President, International. Mr. Puech joined us in 2013 as Senior Vice President and CEO of Latin America and served in that role until October 2018 when he was appointed to his current position. Prior to joining us, Mr. Puech spent 25 years as a senior executive in the telecom and internet sectors of international organizations. Most recently, he was with Nokia where he held various leadership roles including Senior Vice President Americas, Senior Vice President Asia Pacific and Vice President Latin America. Before Nokia, Mr. Puech spent 12 years at Gemalto, where he last held the position of Vice President, Sales and Marketing with responsibility for South Europe, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Mr. Puech holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Business Administration from Ecole Supérieure De Commerce in Marseille, in France. He is fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

Richard C. Rossi is our Executive Vice President and President, U.S. Tower. Prior to this role, Mr. Rossi served as our Senior Vice President and General Counsel, U.S. Tower Division, a position he had held since 2018. Mr. Rossi joined us in 2001 and served in various operational and legal roles for U.S. Tower, including Director of Contract Management and Vice President of Legal. Mr. Rossi received his J.D. from Boston College Law School and graduated magna cum laude from Providence College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. Mr. Rossi serves on the board of directors of East Cambridge Savings Bank. Mr. Rossi also served as the chair for WIA’s Executive Advisory Committee.

The information under “Election of Directors” and “Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports,” if applicable, from the Definitive Proxy Statement is incorporated herein by reference. Information required by this item pursuant to Item 407(c)(3) of SEC Regulation S-K relating to our procedures by which security holders may recommend nominees to our Board, and pursuant to Item 407(d)(4) and 407(d)(5) of SEC Regulation S-K relating to our audit committee financial experts and identification of the audit committee of our Board, is contained in the Definitive Proxy Statement under “Corporate Governance” and is incorporated herein by reference.

Information regarding our Code of Conduct applicable to our principal executive officer, our principal financial officer, our controller and other senior financial officers appears in Item 1 of this Annual Report under the caption “Business—Available Information.”

Insider Trading Policies and Procedures

We have adopted an Anti-Insider Trading Policy governing the purchase, sale and/or other dispositions of our securities by our directors, officers, employees and contractors, that we believe is reasonably designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations and applicable listing standards. A copy of our Anti-Insider Trading Policy is filed with this Annual Report as Exhibit 19.1.

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