Sunit S. Patel, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Crown Castle Inc.. Biography, career history and compensation sourced from SEC proxy filings.
About
Sunit S. Patel was appointed Crown Castle's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective April 1, 2025, and previously served as a non-employee director of the company from January 2024 to March 2025.
Before joining Crown Castle he was CFO of Ibotta Inc. and earlier served as EVP of Merger and Integration at T-Mobile USA. He was EVP and CFO of CenturyLink (now Lumen Technologies), and before that spent more than a decade as CFO of Level 3 Communications, rising from Group VP and CFO to EVP and CFO.
Earlier in his career he co-founded Looking Glass Networks, where he served as CFO until the company was acquired by Level 3 Communications in 2006.
Roles
Crown Castle Inc.
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer · Current role
2025–present
Ibotta Inc.
Chief Financial Officer
February 2021–March 2025
T-Mobile USA, Inc.
EVP, Merger and Integration
October 2018–April 2020
CenturyLink, Inc. (now Lumen Technologies, Inc.)
EVP and CFO
October 2017–October 2018
Level 3 Communications Inc.
EVP and CFO
February 2008–October 2017
Level 3 Communications Inc.
Group VP and CFO
March 2003–February 2008
Looking Glass Networks Inc.
Co-founder and CFO
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T-Mobile
Executive Vice President, Merger and Integration
2018-2020
CenturyLink (now Lumen) / Level 3 Communications
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer