Institutional Investors
Mark DeRussy, CFA
Director of Finance
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Corporate Governance
The Board of Directors of SBA Communications Corporation (the "Company") sets high standards for the Company's employees, officers and directors. Implicit in this philosophy is the importance of sound corporate governance. The core responsibility of each member of the Board is to exercise his or her fiduciary duty to act in a manner he or she believes to be in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders. To fulfill its responsibilities and to discharge its duty, the Board of Directors follows the procedures and standards that are set forth the Corporate Governance Guidelines established by the Board. These guidelines are subject to modification from time to time as the Board of Directors deems appropriate in the best interests of the Company or as required by applicable laws and regulations.
Board of Directors
Steven E. Bernstein Founder and Chairman of the Board
Mr. Bernstein, 51, our founder, has served as our Chairman since inception in 1989 and was our Chief..
Mr. Bernstein, 51, our founder, has served as our Chairman since inception in 1989 and was our Chief Executive Officer from 1989 to 2001. Mr. Bernstein is also involved in a number of personal commercial real estate investments. Mr. Bernstein has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in Real Estate from the University of Florida. Mr. Bernstein is also a visiting professor at Lynn University, and serves on the board of various local charities.
Mr. Stoops, 53, President, Chief Executive Officer and director, joined SBA in April 1997 and has served as a director of SBA since August 1999. Mr. Stoops was appointed Chief Executive Officer effective as of January 2002, President in April 2000, and previously served as our Chief Financial Officer.
Mr. Beebe, 53, has served as a director of SBA since October 2009. Since November 2007, he has been President and Chief Executive Officer of 2BPartners, LLC, a partnership that provides strategic, financial and operational advice to investors and management, and whose clients include Carlyle Group, GS Capital Partners, KKR and TPG Capital. Previously he was Group President of Operations at ALLTEL Corporation, a telecommunications services company, from 1996 to 2007. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Beebe served as Executive Vice President of Operations for 360ยบ Communications Co., a wireless communications company. Mr. Beebe also serves on the Board of Directors of Skyworks Solutions, Inc., a semiconductor company, and on the Board of Directors of NII Holdings, Inc., a mobile phone company.
Mr. Carr, 50, has served as a director of SBA since May 2004. Since October 2009, Mr. Carr has been a private investor and consultant. From May 2008 to September 2009, he served as a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of OraIDNA Labs, a privately held salivary diagnostic company focused on the dental profession which was acquired by Quest Diagnostics in May 2009. Mr. Carr previously served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Esoteric Laboratories, a company engaged in advanced clinical laboratory testing, from June 2003 until January 2007 when it was acquired by Sonic Healthcare Limited. From November 2000 to April 2003, Mr. Carr was the President and a director of AmeriPath, Inc., a publicly held anatomic pathology laboratory company. From March 1997 to November 2000, Mr. Carr was the founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of InformDX, a pathology services company that was acquired by AmeriPath.
Mr. Cocroft, 68, has served as a director of SBA since August 2004. Mr. Cocroft is a private investor who retired in March 2004 from Cendant Corporation, a provider of consumer and business services primarily in the travel and real estate services industries. Mr. Cocroft was Executive Vice President, Finance and Treasurer of Cendant and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PHH Corporation, Cendant's wholly-owned finance subsidiary. Prior to joining Cendant in June 1999, Mr. Cocroft served as Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and Principal Financial Officer of Kos Pharmaceuticals, where he was responsible for finance, information systems and human resources. His other prior senior management positions include Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of International Multifoods, an operator of food manufacturing businesses in the United States and Canada, and Vice President and Treasurer of Smithkline Beckman, a pharmaceutical company. Mr. Cocroft also serves on the Board of Directors of Visteon Corporation, a global automotive supplier company.
Mr. Krouse, 66, has served as a director of SBA since October 2009. Mr. Krouse, an attorney, retired in December 2007 after spending 37 years at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, where he practiced in the corporate, capital markets and merger and acquisition areas. While at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Mr. Krouse served as Head of the Corporate Department and Senior Administrative Partner of the firm. Mr. Krouse also serves on the Board of Visitors at Duke University School of Law and is a 2002 recipient of the Law School's Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2006 he was appointed a Senior Lecturing Fellow at the Law School.
Mr. Langer, 63, has served as a director of SBA since May 2004. Mr. Langer is a private investor. From April 1997 to December 2002, Mr. Langer served as Managing Director and the Global Co-Head of the Media Group at Lehman Brothers Inc. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Langer served as the Managing Director and Head of Media Group at Bankers Trust & Company. From 1990 to 1994, Mr. Langer served as Managing Director and Head of Media Group at Kidder Peabody & Company, Inc. Mr. Langer previously served on the Board of Directors of CKX, Inc., a publicly traded company engaged in the ownership, development and commercial utilization of entertainment content.
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The Board believes that shareholders should have the right to communicate directly with the Board. Shareholder communications should be directed to one or more members of the Board or to the Board collectively, must be in hard copy (i.e., non-electronic) written form, must be delivered to the Company’s principal executive office located at 5900 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Boca Raton, Florida 33487, and must include a statement that the author of such communications is a beneficial or record owner of shares of common stock of the Company. All qualifying communications received by the Company
The Board believes that shareholders should have the right to communicate directly with the Board. Shareholder communications should be directed to one or more members of the Board or to the Board collectively, must be in hard copy (i.e., non-electronic) written form, must be delivered to the Company’s principal executive office located at 5900 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Boca Raton, Florida 33487, and must include a statement that the author of such communications is a beneficial or record owner of shares of common stock of the Company. All qualifying communications received by the Company shall be directed to the Corporate Secretary. The Corporate Secretary will maintain a log and copies of all qualifying communications. The Corporate Secretary shall review all qualifying communications and shall remove communications relating to the purchase or sale of products or services, communications from landlords relating to the obligations of the Company or one of its subsidiaries under a lease, communications from suppliers or vendors relating to the obligations of the Company or one of its subsidiaries to such supplier or vendor, communications from pending or threatened opposing parties in legal or administrative proceedings regarding matters not related to securities law matters or fiduciary duty matters and any other communications that the Corporate Secretary deems, in his or her reasonable discretion, unrelated to the business of the Company. The Corporate Secretary shall compile all qualifying communications not removed as provided above and shall distribute such qualifying communications to the intended recipient, as appropriate. A copy of any qualifying communication that relates to the Company’s accounting and auditing practices shall also be sent directly to the Chairman of the Company’s Audit Committee, whether or not it was directed to such person.
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