SBA Communications Corporation announced that long-term industry veteran, Jason Silberstein, Executive Vice President, Site Leasing will retire from his current title and role effective August 1, 2024. Succeeding Mr. Silberstein will be Donald Day. Mr. Day has been with SBA for 13 years, most recently serving as Senior Vice President, Services.

The company also announced that Nichole Thomas, currently the Company?s Vice President, Site Development Services, will transition into the role previously held by Mr. Day. The appointments of Mr. Day and Ms. Thomas will each become effective on August 1, 2024. Mr. Day has served as the company?s Senior Vice President, Services since May 2018 and currently oversees all of the company?s services operations in the United States.

He joined SBA in May 2011 as the North Regional Vice President and was promoted to Vice President ? Services in January 2013. Prior to joining SBA, Mr. Day was a Vice President at General Dynamics, from January 2004 to May 2011, where he was responsible for managing the market and budget objectives of wireless deployment teams throughout the United States.

Prior to General Dynamics, Mr. Day served in a variety of roles within the wireless services and infrastructure industry and earlier served four years in the United States Army. Ms. Thomas joined SBA in June 2023 and currently serves as Vice President, Site Development Services, leading the Company?s domestic new tower development and delivery of site development services for all major customers. Ms. Thomas has over 25 years of experience as a telecommunications industry executive with a history in network build strategy with companies such as DISH, Ericsson, SAC Wireless (a Nokia company), and Sprint.

She has led large-scale programs and national site deployment efforts across all areas of the country. Before joining SBA, Ms. Thomas served as Regional Vice President of Network Deployment and Operations at Dish Wireless, spearheading the initial deployment of the first Open RAN, cloud-native 5G network in the United States.