04/05/2021
Stilmark
Stilmark
is pleased to announce that Mr Russell Stanners has been appointed as Chief
Executive Officer of Stilmark, effective March 2021.
Stilmark’s
founding CEO, Mr Steven Butler, will transition to an advisory role at Stilmark
and will remain on Stilmark’s Board of Directors.
Stilmark
Chairman, Graham Bradley AM said “Steven has demonstrated great entrepreneurial
leadership and initiative in creating Stilmark and guiding its development over
its first seven years. The Board are
very pleased that Steven remains involved in the business in his new advisory
role.”
Steven
Butler said “It is very exciting to welcome Russell to the Stilmark team. Russell’s considerable experience and
customer centric approach makes him ideally placed to lead Stilmark through its
next phase of growth.”
Graham Bradley said, “We are delighted to
announce that we have appointed Russell Stanners as Stilmark’s new CEO. Russell
has an outstanding track record in telecommunications, most recently serving as
the CEO of Vodafone New Zealand for 13 years. Russell’s deep industry experience
makes him ideally suited to lead our core business, and to spearhead our
pursuit of telecommunications infrastructure opportunities as part of our Symphony
Consortium with OMERS Infrastructure and ATN International.”
Stilmark Holdings Pty Ltd is an Australian specialist tower infrastructure developer, owner and operator, established in 2013. Stilmark partners with mobile carriers and wireless network operators to deliver a fundamentally different approach to infrastructure deployment, focusing on long term alignment of incentives with our customers. Stilmark has a demonstrated track record on delivery of new tower assets, achieving market leading deployment speed with the highest quality standards. In 2017 US based ATN International Inc (NASDAQ:ATNI) joined Stilmark as a strategic investor. In 2020 Stilmark, OMERS Infrastructure and ATN International announced the formation of a consortium to jointly pursue opportunities in Australian telecommunications infrastructure.