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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 17, 2026 are set forth below:

Steven O. Vondran55President and Chief Executive Officer
Rodney M. Smith60Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Ruth T. Dowling56Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Secretary
Juan A. Font57Senior Vice President, President and CEO, CoreSite
Robert J. Meyer62Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
Eugene M. Noel57Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
Richard C. Rossi50Executive 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 and 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 and Nareit Executive Board. Mr. Vondran also currently serves on the board of directors of Ameren Corporation. 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. 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 a director of ATC Europe and CoreSite. 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, U.S. Tower Division. He also serves as co-Executive Sponsor of American Tower’s employee resource group for women, WAATCH. 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.

Ruth T. Dowling is our Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Secretary. She is also the chair of the board of directors 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. She also serves as co-Executive Sponsor of American Tower’s employee resource group for women, WAATCH. 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 with high honors and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with honors.

Juan A. Font is our Senior Vice President and President and CEO, CoreSite. He is also a director of ATC Europe and CoreSite. 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.

Robert J. Meyer is our Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer and will remain in this role until April 27, 2026, after which he will assist with the transition until his retirement from the Company, which will occur prior to the end of 2026.

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.

Eugene M. Noel is our Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He is also a director of ATC Europe and 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 telecommunications real estate development and operations and network deployment experience. Mr. Noel is a board member of the WIA and a former board member of the Tower Families Foundation and Warriors4Wireless. 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.

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. He is also a director of CoreSite. 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 serves as the Vice Chair for WIA’s board of directors and is a member of the boards of CTIA and East Cambridge Savings Bank. 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.

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 and by the Company, 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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