NATE Announces Results of 2017 Board of Directors Election

January 10, 2017

January 4, 2017

The National Association of Tower Erectors (NATE) has announced the re-election to its Board of Directors of Jim Tracy, CEO of Legacy Telecommunications, Burley, Washington; Jim Miller, president of EasTex Tower, Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Ben Little, CEO of Centerline Solutions, in Boulder, Colorado.

Candidate Randel Scott, president of Texoma Contracting, in Muskogee, Oklahoma also was elected and will be serving as a new member of the Board of Directors.

The four candidates, who were elected by their industry peers, will officially begin their two-year terms on February 26, 2017 at the NATE UNITE 2017 Conference in Fort Worth, Texas.

“The 2017 NATE Board of Directors Election was one of the most competitive elections in the history of the Association and all of the candidates who ran in this election performed admirably well,” stated Executive Director Todd Schlekeway.

“The recently elected NATE Board of Directors will preside over an era of unprecedented advances in wireless infrastructure and technologies and will provide innovative, proactive leadership in order to maintain the Association’s role as the global leader in safety, standards and education as the industry moves toward the deployment of 5G networks,” added Schlekeway.