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John Harrobin, age 58, serves as Senior Executive Vice President & President of Kinetic of the Company. Mr. Harrobin has over 20 years expertise and leadership in the telecommunications industry and is focused on building and scaling the Company's fiber services. Most recently, Mr. Harrobin served on Frontier Communications' Executive Committee and led Frontier's Consumer unit from 2021 to 2025, transforming operations and returning the business to revenue and profit growth. Additionally, Mr. Harrobin served as Audible's Chief Marketing Officer from 2017 to 2021. Mr. Harrobin has over a decade of C-suite experience and spent over fifteen years building Verizon's wireless and fiber businesses and serving as Verizon's Chief Marketing Officer. Mr. Harrobin has experience serving as non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors for Acast AB, a global podcasting company headquartered in Sweden, Chair of Acast AB's Remuneration Committee from 2022 to 2024 and as a member of Acast AB's Remuneration Committee in 2025. Mr. Harrobin is a graduate of the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University (MBA) and also from Kellogg's Continuing Education Program with a certificate in Board Governance. Mr. Harrobin obtained a Bachelor of Science from Villanova University. Mr. Harrobin's previous certifications include Certified Management Accountant (Institute for Management Accountants) and Agile Leadership (Scrum Alliance), and Mr. Harrobin's previous non-profit board experience includes industry associations and educational institutions.

Paul Bullington, age 54, serves as Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer (or CFO) of the Company. Prior to the Merger, Mr. Bullington most recently served as Senior Vice President-Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Old Uniti since September 9, 2021. Prior to that appointment, Mr. Bullington served as Old Uniti's Senior Vice President of Strategic Operations of Uniti Fiber. Mr. Bullington joined Old Uniti in connection with its acquisition of Southern Light, LLC (Southern Light) on July 3, 2017. Prior to joining Old Uniti, Mr. Bullington served as the Chief Financial Officer of Southern Light, which he joined in March 2001, until it was acquired by Old Uniti. Mr. Bullington holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Birmingham-Southern College and an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Daniel L. Heard, age 51, serves as Senior Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary (or General Counsel) of the Company. Prior to the Merger, Mr. Heard most recently served as Executive Vice President?-?General Counsel of Old Uniti since April 1, 2015. Prior to joining Old Uniti, he was a partner in the law offices of Kutak Rock LLP. Mr. Heard joined Kutak Rock LLP in 2000, where he represented public companies in corporate, securities and merger and acquisition transactions. His clients comprised a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, information technology and food processing. Mr. Heard has extensive experience in negotiating, structuring and consummating mergers and acquisitions, public offerings of debt and equity securities and other corporate finance transactions. Mr. Heard graduated from the William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Central Arkansas. Mr. Heard is responsible for the Company's legal affairs and corporate governance.

Michael Friloux, age 61, serves as Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (or CTO) of the Company. Prior to the Merger, Mr. Friloux most recently served as Executive Vice President?-?Chief Technology Officer of Old Uniti since February 24, 2022, previously serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer since he joined Old Uniti. Mr. Friloux joined Old Uniti in 2016 in connection with the Company's acquisition of PEG Bandwidth, LLC, of which Mr. Friloux served as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Friloux holds a Bachelor of Science from Oklahoma State University.

Francis X. (Skip) Frantz, age 72, has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors since our spin-off from Windstream. He previously served as a director of Windstream from 2006 until the spin-off, serving as Chairman of its Audit Committee at the time of his resignation from the Windstream board of directors. From July 2006 to February 2010, he served as Chairman of the Windstream board. Mr. Frantz served as the 2006 and 2007 Chairman of the Board and the Executive Committee of the United States Telecom Association. Mr. Frantz served as Chairman of a community bank in Little Rock, Arkansas from February 2007 until May 2014 and serves as a director of a number of other privately held companies. Prior to January 2006, Mr. Frantz was Executive Vice President-External Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary of Alltel Corporation (Alltel). Mr. Frantz joined Alltel in 1990 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel and was appointed Secretary in January 1992 and Executive Vice President in July 1998. While with Alltel, he was responsible for Alltel's merger and acquisition negotiations, wholesale services group, federal and state government and external affairs, corporate communications, administrative services and corporate governance, in addition to serving as Alltel's chief legal officer. Mr. Frantz's qualifications for election to the Board include his ability to provide insight and perspective on a wide range of issues facing business enterprises based on his long tenure as a senior executive in the telecommunications industry. Mr. Frantz's over-15-year career as a senior telecom executive in various capacities provides him with a thorough understanding of all aspects of Uniti's target market, and his service as a director and chairman of the United States Telecom Association provides Mr. Frantz with additional experience and insight in communications policy and regulation. Through his current involvement with a number of private companies and his prior role as Chairman of Windstream and, before that, as senior executive of Alltel, Mr. Frantz has extensive experience in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, risk management, government policy and regulation, and capital markets transactions, in addition to the specific aspects of the telecommunications industry.

Mary McLaughlin, age 62, was appointed to the Board of Directors on August 1, 2025. Previously, Ms. McLaughlin served on the Board of Directors of Windstream. There she was a member of the Audit and ESG Committees, as well as the Kinetic by Windstream Ad Hoc Committee, which provided management with guidance and oversight for the Windstream Kinetic business unit. In addition, McLaughlin is a member of the University of Maryland Medical System Foundation Board and the Board of the University of Maryland Medical Center, where she serves as Chair of the Nomination and Governance Committee. Ms. McLaughlin spent nearly 20 years in executive positions at Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA). Most recently she was Senior Vice President Comcast, Beltway Region, where she led a multidisciplinary team of over 5,000 employees serving more than 2.3 million residential and business services customers in the MidAtlantic. She was responsible for 4.5 billion in revenue, managing all aspects of the P&L including financial performance, operations, sales, marketing, call centers, technical/?field support, network build-out, human resources, public relations, and government affairs. Ms. McLaughlin began her career as Assistant Attorney General in the Massachusetts Attorney General office. Ms. McLaughlin received a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School. Ms. McLaughlin is Director Certified by the National Association of Corporate Directors. She has attended executive programs at Harvard Business School and Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Carmen Perez-Carlton, age 65, was appointed to the Board of Directors on August 1, 2025, and previously served on the board of directors of Old Uniti since October 1, 2019. In 2023, Ms. Perez-Carlton was appointed to the Board of Directors of Summit Utilities, Inc., a company that owns natural gas distribution and transmission subsidiaries that operate in Arkansas, Colorado, Maine, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. From January 2017 to July 2019, Ms. Perez-Carlton served as an independent advisor for Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI), a publicly-traded fiber infrastructure REIT, providing input and strategic guidance on matters related to mergers and acquisitions, strategy and business development opportunities. Previously, she served as President of FPL FiberNet, LLC from 2007 until it was acquired by Crown Castle in January 2017. As President, Ms. Perez-Carlton grew FPL FiberNet through acquisition and network expansion while leading the company through a debt refinancing and ultimately to its eventual sale. Prior to FPL FiberNet, LLC, Ms. Perez-Carlton served as Assistant Controller and Director, Revenue and Recovery for Florida Power & Light, Co.. Ms. Perez-Carlton began her career as an Audit Manager with Deloitte and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Florida International University and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive status). Ms. Perez-Carlton has served on multiple non-profit organization's boards and was recognized in 2013 by Capacity Media as one of the top ten women in the telecommunications industry. Ms. Perez-Carlton's qualifications for election to the Board include her operational, management, financial and accounting expertise gained through her long tenure as a senior executive in the telecommunications industry. As a result of this expertise and experience, especially as president of FPL FiberNet, LLC until its sale in January 2017, Ms. Perez-Carlton is uniquely qualified to advise on Uniti's growth strategies and M&A activities, and the Board believes that Ms. Perez-Carlton has a valuable understanding of, and is equipped to assist the Board in navigating, the challenges of the segment of the communications industry in which Uniti competes.

Scott G. Bruce, age 64, was appointed to the Board of Directors on August 1, 2025 and previously served on the board of directors of Old Uniti since June 29, 2016. Mr. Bruce has served as the President of Radius Global Infrastructure, Inc., a company engaged in the aggregation of rental streams underlying wireless sites and related businesses, since February 2020 and in February 2023 he also became the company's CEO. Mr. Bruce previously served as Managing Director of Associated Partners, LP, a private investment partnership focusing on creating, operating and investing in wireless communications companies, from its inception in 2006. In addition, Mr. Bruce previously served as Managing Director and General Counsel of Liberty Associated Partners, LP, a predecessor investment vehicle. Previously, Mr. Bruce was General Counsel and Secretary of Associated Group, Inc., a publicly traded company that owned various communications businesses, from 1994 to 2000, when it was sold to AT&T/Liberty Media. He also served as Vice President and General Counsel of Associated Communications Corporation, a publicly traded predecessor company to Associated Group, from 1992 to 1994, when the company sold its cellular telephone businesses to SBC/AT&T. Prior to joining Associated, Mr. Bruce practiced corporate law at Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1992. Prior to that, he worked as an auditor in the New York office of Touche Ross & Co. (predecessor to Deloitte) from 1983 to 1985. In connection with Mr. Bruce's prior responsibilities at Associated, he has held various board memberships at private companies. Mr. Bruce holds an A.B. in History from Colgate University, an M.S. (Accounting) from the New York University Stern School of Business and a J.D. from the Villanova University School of Law.

Johannes Weber, age 47, has been nominated to stand for election to the Board of Directors as of the date of this Annual Meeting. Mr. Weber is a consultant for Elliott Investment Management L.P. Prior to becoming a consultant, from 2009 until January 2026, Mr. Weber was portfolio manager at Elliott Investment Management L.P. with responsibility for certain public and private equity and credit investments across multiple industries for fifteen years. In addition, Mr. Weber served on the Board of Directors of Windstream from 2020 to 2025. Mr. Weber holds a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kenneth A. Gunderman, age 55, was appointed to the Board of Directors and has served as President & Chief Executive Officer (or CEO) of the Company since August 1, 2025. Previously, Mr. Gunderman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Old Uniti since March 2, 2015. Prior to his appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer of Old Uniti, he served as the co-head of investment banking at Stephens Inc., where he was responsible for the strategic direction of the investment banking department and advised on many of the firm's notable investment banking transactions. From July 2014 to August 2017, Mr. Gunderman served on the board of America's Car-Mart, Inc. Prior to joining Stephens Inc., Mr. Gunderman was a member of the telecom investment banking group at Lehman Brothers, where he advised on various transactions and financings totaling more than $125 billion. He also worked as a Certified Public Accountant at KPMG and holds an MBA from Yale and a Bachelor of Arts from Hendrix College.

Mr. Travis Black, Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer.