Chief Financial Officer Lisa Flynn joined Branch Communications in March 2018 with more than 20 years of experience in accounting, financial analysis and corporate compliance. Ms. Flynn received her MBA from the University of Tulsa and oversees corporate finance, treasury, long-term budgeting and plays a significant role in Branch’s strategic leadership. Prior to Branch Communications, she spent ten years as Controller/Practice Manager for Pediatric Therapy Companies in the Tulsa and Dallas area.

James joined the Branch Communications team in April 2013 to head up the new Architectural and Engineering department. With over 18 years of experience in Architectural and Engineering for telecommunications and 6 years of Structural design. James has been instrumental in starting up two different Architectural and Engineering departments. James has overseen and helped design multiple prototypical cellular site drawings for companies to use as a nationwide template for construction projects to ensure uniformity of construction and products. He consults with clients to review the scope of work and to ensure that the expectations of the project is completely understood. Coordinate with Engineers on the development of the construction drawings. Ensures final construction drawings are signed, sealed and sent to client with follow-up and maintenance responsibilities to finish the project life cycle. Co-developed an automation system that cuts the development time of Construction Drawings.

Mr. Pierce joined Branch Communications in April 2013. Mr. Pierce is responsible for oversight of all construction related operations. Michael began his career in communications in 1982 with Pioneer Telephone Cooperative. He transferred to the wireless division in 1988 to begin his career in wireless communication.

Prior to joining the Branch team, he held key customer service, construction, and technical rolls within the Pioneer organization. Including Wireless Operations manager, RF design/performance manager, Construction manager, and new product development. Prior roles and responsibilities include planning, budgeting management, backhaul design, switching experience, construction, maintenance, and operations management.

Jared joined the Branch Communications team in October 2015 in the role of Executive Vice President & COO. Since joining Branch, Jared has been overseeing the Site Development process, day-to-day operations and business development . Jared has instilled a focus on driving unique strategies and policies across the organization while maintaining alignment to each the wireless carrier’s unique objectives.

Jared’s background consists of 20 years of aggressive network deployment programs at T-Mobile USA. Jared participated in numerous network deployments during the initial years of his career (Houston, New Orleans, Virginia Beach and Little Rock). As technology changed, so did the scope and management of technology deployments (UMTS, HSPA and LTE) within T-Mobile while partnering with key OEMs (Nokia & Ericsson). During his 16 years at T-Mobile Jared held many market and regional positions. He spent the last 8 years of his career at T-Mobile as the Regional Development Director for the South Region. In this role, he was responsible all budgetary and program deployments across 13 markets and served as a conduit between the local market teams and T-Mobile Headquarters.

Curtis Branch, a twenty-year veteran of the wireless industry, serves as the President and CEO of Branch Communications. Branch founded the company in 2011 after personally developing 116 towers from his departure at American Tower in 2005 through the formation of Branch Communications in 2011.

Branch also formed CRB Companies, LLC in 2006 as a site acquisition services company and has grown the Services offerings in to included end-to-end management of all entitlement, construction and integration services.

In addition to his accomplishments with Branch Communications, he was a founding member and current Board member of the Arkansas-Oklahoma Wireless association in 2006. Since inception, the organization has seen membership increase exponentially, and has raised $500,000 to support various philanthropic endeavors.

Mr. Branch has numerous activities that he shares with his eight children and wife of 27 years, Rachael. Those activities include golfing, fishing and the love of high school athletics. Mr. Branch recently retired from coaching high school basketball at Booker T Washington in Tulsa, OK. He was an assistant for three years, winning a State Championship in the highest classification (6A) in 2019. The Championship trophy is proudly displayed in his office!

Since retirement in coaching, Mr. Branch has turned to television broadcasting for a customer, Bravado Wireless. He has done both football and basketball games for Bravado and started a podcast focusing on High School sports in recent weeks! Needless to say, between business, family and High School sports, Mr. Branch stays busy!

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Experienced Human Resources Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the Telecommunications and Oil and Gas industry. Strong human resources professional with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) focused in Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities from Indiana University Bloomington.

A former physics teacher and football coach, Mark has been with Branch Communications since 2007. He currently serves as Executive Vice President of Services, overseeing contract and action-level activities for each of Branch’s carrier programs.

Holly Szczypinski joined Branch Communications in 2016 and serves as the Vice President of Legal and Regulatory. Prior to joining Branch, Holly served as Vice President at Investors Title Insurance Company as the company’s leader in commercial escrow services and managing multi-bank owned agencies in the Midwest region. Holly also served as the Director of Business Development for Spectrasite Communications where she led a team of attorneys in the development and acquisition of lease buyouts and other aspects of the wireless infrastructure business. Holly is a graduate of UNC Charlotte and obtained her JD from Mississippi College School of Law. Holly is also an alumnus of the Executive Education Program at UNC Chapel Hill and is an active member of the North Carolina State Bar.