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Vantage Towers appoints Christian Hillabrant as Chief Executive Officer

Düsseldorf, 7th June 2023 - The Supervisory Board of Vantage Towers AG ("Vantage Towers"), one of Europe's leading tower infrastructure operators, today announces the appointment of Christian Hillabrant as Chief Executive of the group. The appointment is expected to become effective in approximately two months.

Mr Hillabrant's current role is Chief Operating Officer at Tillman Infrastructure, the rapidly growing tower company based in the United States. Mr Hillabrant has also held senior positions at Ericsson, where he was latterly Chief Operating Officer for Europe / North America running businesses across 16 countries. He was also a member of Ericsson Telecommunications GmbH's Supervisory Board based in Germany. Prior to this, Christian was at T-Mobile USA, where he was regional Vice President.

Until Mr Hillabrant starts, Thomas Reisten will continue as the Interim Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer with the full support of the Supervisory Board.

Dr Rüdiger Grube, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Vantage Towers AG: ""I am delighted to welcome Christian to the Management Board of Vantage Towers. He is a veteran in the telecoms sector and brings considerable experience of the towers industry. Most recently, Christian has had an impressive track record at Tillman, where he led an operational and commercial strategy which accelerated tower roll-outand grew key customer relationships. I look forward to working with him to drive our strategy to enable Europe's digital transformation and to benefit from the attractive long-termtrends in the tower industry across the continent. While we wait for Christian to join, Thomas will continue to drive the business forward as Interim CEO and CFO with the full support of the Supervisory Board."

Christian Hillabrant: "I am pleased to be appointed Chief Executive of Vantage Towers and to join the Management Board. Vantage Towers is a business with exciting prospects, and I am looking forward to working with Thomas and the wider team to capture the structural growth opportunities from mobile coverage obligations and the ever-increasingend-user demand for data."

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About Vantage Towers

Vantage Towers is a leading tower company in Europe with around 83,000 sites in ten countries, connecting people, businesses and devices in cities and rural areas.

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Registered office: Vantage Towers AG, Prinzenallee 11-13,D-40549, Düsseldorf, Deutschland. Amtsgericht Düsseldorf, HRB 92244.

The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Düsseldorf. Vantage Towers' portfolio includes towers, masts, rooftop sites, distributed antenna systems (DAS) and small cells. By building, operating and leasing this infrastructure to MNOs or other network providers such as IoT companies or utilities, Vantage Towers is making a significant contribution to a better connected Europe.

While already 100% of the electricity that Vantage Towers uses to operate its infrastructure is obtained from renewable energy sources, green energy is increasingly being generated directly on site with the help of solar panels, micro wind turbines and in future also hydrogen solutions. This fits well into the overall strategy of the company to drive a sustainable digitalisation in Europe and to support partners through technological innovation in decarbonisation and achieving their climate goals.

For more information, please visit our website at https://www.vantagetowers.com/en, follow us on Twitter at @VantageTowers or connect with us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/vantagetowers.

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Registered office: Vantage Towers AG, Prinzenallee 11-13,D-40549, Düsseldorf, Deutschland. Amtsgericht Düsseldorf, HRB 92244.

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