IHS Holding Limited (NYSE: IHS), operating as IHS Towers, yesterday appointed Colby Synesael as Senior Vice President of Communications.
Based in New York City, Colby will be responsible for further developing the IHS’s Investor Relations practice and the existing Communications & Sustainability team. He reports to the company CFO and will work closely with Sam Darwish, Chairman and CEO, in addition to becoming a member of IHS Towers’ Executive Management Committee.
Colby has been in sell-side equity research for the past 20 years and is regarded as one of the top Communications Infrastructure (towers, data centers, fiber, small cells) analysts, having been ranked within the top three of Institutional Investor’s annual sell-side polls each of the past five years. Colby spent the past 12 years at Cowen as a leader of the research team.
“I am delighted to welcome Colby and add yet another seasoned expert to our Executive Management Committee,” says Sam Darwish, IHS Towers Chairman and CEO. “Colby brings invaluable insight as an Institutional Investor-ranked research analyst in the communications infrastructure sector along with significant knowledge of and experience in working directly with the investor and analyst community.”
Colby Synesael, IHS Towers SVP of Communications, comments, “I’m excited to join IHS Towers having gotten to know Sam and other members of the management team during the company’s IPO process. I believe IHS has a meaningful growth opportunity in front of it. … I expect we will see significant demand for communications infrastructure within emerging markets over the next decade and believe that IHS is uniquely positioned to benefit.”
IHS Towers is one of the largest independent towercos with more than 38,000 towers pro forma across 11 markets in South America, Africa and the Middle East, and focuses on emerging markets.
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