Ms. Thomas has served as Senior Vice President, Services, since August 2024. She joined SBA in 2023 and previously served as Vice President, Site Development Services, leading the company’s domestic new tower development and delivery of site development services for all major carriers. Ms. Thomas has more than 25 years of experience as a telecommunications industry executive 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. Ms. Thomas holds an Executive MBA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.