Crown Castle International Appoints Carl Ferenbach to Board
Mr. Ferenbach has been a managing director of Berkshire Partners LLC, a private equity investment firm, since its founding in the early 1980s. Berkshire manages six investment funds with approximately $3.5 billion of capital for equity investments in its targeted sectors. Mr. Ferenbach is also chairman of English, Welsh & Scottish Railway Ltd, Britain's leading freight railroad, and is a director of U.S. Can Corporation. He received an A.B. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
"We are pleased to welcome Carl back to the board," stated John P. Kelly, president and chief executive officer of Crown Castle. "His proven leadership skills have been a tremendous asset to us in the past, and we look forward to his valuable contributions."
Crown Castle International Corp. engineers, deploys, owns and operates technologically advanced shared wireless infrastructure, including extensive networks of towers and rooftops as well as analog and digital audio and television broadcast transmission systems. The Company offers near-universal broadcast coverage in the United Kingdom and significant wireless communications coverage to 68 of the top 100 United States markets, to more than 95 percent of the UK population and to more than 92 percent of the Australian population. The Company owns, operates and manages over 15,000 wireless communication towers internationally. For more information on Crown Castle visit: www.crowncastle.com .
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