Steven Vondran
Chief Executive Officer
2024 – Present
2 years (current)
Legacy
Leads American Tower's tower, services, and CoreSite data-center strategy, with emphasis on portfolio discipline, customer demand from mobile and cloud networks, and balance-sheet execution. Vondran joined American Tower in 2000 and rose through leadership of the US Tower Division, including its data-center business, and served as global chief operating officer before becoming CEO in 2024. Before joining the company, he practiced law and worked as a telecommunications consultant, including a clerkship for a justice on the Arkansas Supreme Court. As CEO, he has continued American Tower's strategic focus on data centers and edge-computing infrastructure following the company's 2021 acquisition of CoreSite, positioning the REIT to capture demand from both traditional wireless carriers and cloud-computing customers requiring low-latency data infrastructure. The $10.1 billion CoreSite deal, which closed in December 2021, added 25 data centers and more than 32,000 interconnections across eight major US markets to American Tower's portfolio, giving the company a foothold at critical internet-infrastructure hubs like the One Wilshire building in Los Angeles. He has also emphasized expanding American Tower's presence in emerging markets across Africa and Latin America.