About Connected Infra Group
Bridging digital infrastructure and commercial real estate through experience, integrity, and disciplined execution.
About CIG
Built on Experience. Built on Integrity.
Built Differently.
Connecting the Digital Infrastructure and Real Estate Worlds.
We didn’t come here to start another company. We came here to build the company we always believed this industry needed. For decades, our leadership team has been at the forefront of digital infrastructure, helping build, acquire, develop, and operate some of the industry’s most successful platforms. Along the way, we learned what drives long-term success—and what stands in the way of it. Those experiences shaped CIG.
Today, we bring together deep industry expertise, disciplined execution, and a forward-thinking mindset to bridge the worlds of telecommunications and commercial real estate. We partner with carriers, network operators, municipalities, property owners, developers, brokers, and investors to identify, acquire, develop, and operate infrastructure that powers modern connectivity.
Our philosophy is simple:
Do things the right way, from the very beginning.
Why CIG?
No Legacy Burdens. Just
Capital, Clarity & Execution.
Unlike many organizations, CIG starts from a position of strength.
We have no legacy debt, inherited obligations, or outdated operational constraints. Instead, we operate with a clean balance sheet, strong financial backing, and a streamlined structure that allows us to move decisively and quickly while remaining disciplined.
Our executive team brings decades of experience across tower ownership, infrastructure development, acquisitions, operations, and telecommunications real estate.
Combined with a culture rooted in accountability and transparency, we offer a higher standard of partnership built for long-term success. The CIG Difference
Meet The Team
Together, our leadership team brings decards of combined experience across the tower and digital infrastructure industry, with a proven track record of building, managing, and scaling some of the nation’s largest telecom portfolios.
Bernard Borghei
CEO
Bernard Borghei is the Founder, President & CEO of Connected Infrastructure Group. In this role he is responsible for the company’s strategic plan and execution at all levels including financial management, client relationships, budgets and forecasting, overseeing the operations of the company’s various departments and groups under each executive such as finance/accounting, sales, M&A, business development, marketing, strategic initiatives and activities, operations, legal, asset development, compliance, and HR. Prior to this role, Mr. Borghei was the CEO of Symphony Towers Infrastructure and prior to that role he co-founded Vertical Bridge REIT, the largest privately held telecom tower company in the US valued at over $10 billion, and also served as the company’s Executive Vice President of Operations, responsible for Vertical Bridge’s daily operations, regulatory compliance, vendor management, engineering services, human resources and emerging technologies.
Mr. Borghei has over 32 years of experience in wireless and infrastructure industries and before co-founding Vertical Bridge, he served as Senior Vice President and Partner at Global Tower Partners (GTP) which was sold for $5.5 billion in 2013, where he oversaw domestic and international market operations, including a portfolio of more than 6,500 towers and 12,000 managed properties.
Mr. Borghei has also held executive and senior management positions in operations, engineering, sales, supply chain, site development, and customer care at several wireless operators and service providers including Comcast, Omnipoint, TruePosition, SkyBitz, Wireless Facilities, Inc. Western Wireless International, and Triton PCS, where he successfully ran operations across 24 different countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North and South America.
Mr. Borghei has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University and an MBA in global management from the University of Phoenix. He serves on the Advisory Board for the Villanova University School of Engineering and is a board member for the UK based company, Freshwave. He also serves on the advisory board of TATE and previously was the Chairman of the endowment committee for the Tower Family Foundation.
Dan Marinberg
Chief Legal Officer
Dan Marinberg is the Chief Legal Officer of Connected Infra Group. In such role, Mr. Marinberg is responsible for all legal, regulatory and government affairs and strategy. Prior to joining CIG, Mr. Marinberg served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Turnberry Associates, and almost 10 years as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary to the Board of Directors at Vertical Bridge.
Before his time in-house in telecom and real estate development, Mr. Marinberg was a partner at top international law firm Greenberg Traurig where his practice focused on all aspects of domestic and international real estate transactions including acquisitions and dispositions of commercial real estate, financings, leasing, development, and joint venture structuring, with a niche in hospitality.
Throughout his career, Mr. Marinberg has been recognized for his legal skill and business acumen by the South Florida Legal Guide, Florida Super Lawyers, the Daily Business Review, and by Law360 as a Top Attorney under 40 in 2014. He currently sits on the Dean’s Advisory Board for Boston University School of Law.
Cyndi Smith
COO
Cyndi Smith is the Vice President of Operations for Connected Infra Group. Mrs. Smith is a senior commercial and infrastructure leader with deep expertise in leading large-scale operational strategy, construction development, digital transformation, and portfolio integration within high-growth organizations.
As head of Operational Services for the U.S. & Canada division at American Tower, she oversaw national operations, long-term capital planning and budget management across 45,000 mixed use assets. She established and supported processes, policies and guidelines in support of US Tower’s strategic direction; driving modernization initiatives, managing risk, and leading enterprise scale UAS programming.
Prior to working at ATC, Cyndi worked at Global Tower Partners, helping build back-office functions to scale growth and leading Western US operations. In 2013, Global Tower Partners was the largest privately held tower company and sold to American Tower for $5.5B. Throughout her career, she has held various roles in the industry – directing build to suit solutions, providing end-to-end services for client infrastructure development, and leading cross-functional teams in customer network deployment.
Known for simplifying complexity and building high-performing teams, Cyndi brings a strategic, people-first leadership style that aligns operational excellence with long-term business goals. She is equally committed to elevating the customer experience, ensuring that partnerships remain central to every operational solution.
She holds a Bachelors in Business from Lindenwood University and Executive MBA from Washington University in St. Louis, Olin School of Business.
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