About Us

For more than 25 years, Chris Bondurant has spearheaded telecommunication innovation in a variety of business leadership roles including AT&T and its regional predecessors. He joined SAC Wireless in 2018 as COO, ascending to CEO in 2021. Under his leadership, the wireless and fiber optic network infrastructure services company revised its mission, vision, and tagline to better reflect growth as a leader in Telecom Infrastructure Services (TIS), Small Cell deployment, and Professional Services (including Site Acquisition, Architecture and Engineering). Chris leads SAC’s charge to become a trusted problem solver in the public utilities space by providing innovative communication network solutions. This initiative, SAC EDG, fulfills Chris’s vision to realize a steady company-wide expansion of utility network-focused talent, tools and facilities that provides mission-critical network upgrades to utilities nationwide.

Lena Nicholson joined SAC in 2021 as the finance vice president before ascending to the role of CFO. She spent more than 20 years of her career at Motorola Solutions where she worked in a variety of financial management roles supporting product, service, and software-based businesses. Nicholson holds an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Shawna Brown joined SAC in 2006 as an associate general counsel, providing legal guidance on contracts, compliance, and risk management. Prior to joining SAC, she served as in-house counsel for Alcoa Wireless Services for four years.

Eron Barnes leads SAC’s Professional Services - Site Acquisition, Architecture and Engineering teams, including leasing, zoning, permitting, and compliance. During her SAC career, she spent two years heading up the National Program Management office as senior director and then vice president. In 2021, Barnes took on the Engine Room™ and Professional Services for SAC. Prior to coming to SAC, Ms. Barnes worked for 12 years at AT&T and Cingular Wireless. She received her bachelor's in Management and Accounting from Washington and Jefferson College and her MBA from Waynesburg University in Leadership and Management.

Rob Strauch leads the Telecom Infrastructure Services team inclusive of all field-based crews, EH&S, Training, Fleet, and Procurement. Mr. Strauch joined SAC in 2018 and has held leadership positions within Customer Delivery and Vendor Partnership Organization in addition to TIS. Prior to SAC, he spent 26 years with AT&T Mobility and led various wireless network construction teams. Over his career, Rob has led deployment teams from 1G through 5G, core network build-outs, and large-scale Radio Access Network deployments inclusive of macro- and micro-cell technologies. Rob has also led Disaster Recovery and Crisis Response Teams throughout his career.

Kurt joined the company in 2022 to ensure all divisions, TIS, Professional Services, and SAC EDG (public utility communications), have the best technology at hand to consistently deliver the highest quality deployments, upgrades, and data analytics on time and on budget. He led the charge to maximize data security by leveraging industry standard frameworks and cloud platforms that ensure SAC’s data assets and technology remain safe at all times. Under Kurt’s strategy and management, SAC’s data infrastructure and technology platforms – involving thousands of field team and customer touch points – meet the highest possible security standards and deliver cutting edge capabilities.

Prior to joining SAC, Kurt held various leadership positions for US Cellular, Motorola, Level 3 Communications, Arthur Andersen, and IBM. He holds a BA in Computer Information Systems (Northern Michigan University), a Master’s in IT (DePaul), and an MBA (Kellogg at Northwestern).