Christopher E. French has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and its subsidiaries since 1988. Prior to his appointment as President, he held a variety of positions with the Company, including Executive Vice President and Vice President-Network Service. Mr. French also serves on the Board of Directors of First National Corporation. Mr. French brings to the Board additional qualifications, including his engineering and business education, telecommunications industry experience, knowledge of and history with the Company, and public company knowledge, including knowledge gained from his past service as a director of First National Corporation. In addition, his substantial ownership of the Company’s common stock serves to align his interests with the Company’s shareholders.

Thomas A. Beckett has served as the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of American Public Education, Inc. (APEI), a publically traded provider of online and on-campus postsecondary education headquartered in Charles Town, West Virginia since 2016. Mr. Beckett also serves as the General Counsel and Secretary of American Public University System, Inc. (APUS), a wholly owned subsidiary of APEI, and has held various other positions with APUS since joining the company in 2011. From 2007 to 2010, Mr. Beckett was the General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer of InnoZen, Inc. (now CURE Pharmaceutical) and HealthSport, Inc., pharmaceutical and dietary supplement technology companies located in California. Mr. Beckett also held various other leadership positions at these companies. Prior to this work, Mr. Beckett was an attorney at the international law firms King & Spalding LLP and Holland & Knight LLP. Mr. Beckett began his career as a banking officer with First Union National Bank. Mr. Beckett brings to the Board additional qualifications, including his significant experience providing advice and guidance to Boards of Directors and executive management, his expertise in corporate governance, and his experience as an executive officer of a public company.

Victor C. Barnes is an executive coach and also provides consultancy and advisory services to businesses. Previously, Mr. Barnes served as Chief of Connected Planning for Anaplan, a publicly traded business planning software company. Prior to joining Anaplan in February 2021, Mr. Barnes served The Coca-Cola Company since 1994, where he first served as an auditor and then held numerous executive financial roles, across multiple business units and countries, last serving as the Global Chief Financial Officer of their McDonald’s Division. Mr. Barnes began his professional business career in 1988 with the public accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand and also served as an auditor at The Walt Disney Company. Mr. Barnes earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Northern Illinois University, an Executive Masters of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and is a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Barnes also serves as an audit committee financial expert.

Matthew S. DeNichilo is a Partner at Energy Capital Partners (ECP), which he joined in 2008. He is a member of ECP’s Partnership, Investment and Valuation Committees. Mr. DeNichilo currently serves on the board of Triple Oak Power and Terra-Gen, LLC. Prior to joining ECP, Mr. DeNichilo worked at JP Morgan in the Energy Investment Banking Group. While at JP Morgan, he focused on leveraged finance and mergers and acquisition transactions among independent power producers. Mr. DeNichilo received a B.S.E. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University. Mr. DeNichilo brings to the Board additional qualifications including his financial background and expertise in mergers and acquisitions and strategic planning. Mr. DeNichilo also serves as an audit committee financial expert.

James F. DiMola is Managing Director, Infrastructure Investments, at GCM Grosvenor where he focuses on direct infrastructure investments. His responsibilities include originating, executing, and managing investments, including board-level duties. Prior to joining GCM Grosvenor, Mr. DiMola served as Vice President at Cooper Investment Partners, where he focused on middle-market infrastructure investments. Previously, Mr. DiMola was an Associate with First Reserve Corporation, where he focused on investments in the energy equipment and services sectors. Mr. DiMola began his career as an Analyst in the investment banking division of Barclays Capital (formerly Lehman Brothers), where he assisted in acquisition and capital raising advisory for companies in the regulated utility and power generation industry. Mr. DiMola received his Bachelor of Science in Finance and Bachelor of Science in Accounting from New York University. Mr. DiMola brings to the Board additional qualifications, including his financial background and expertise in analyzing all aspects of companies in the infrastructure space, particularly telecommunications companies.

Tracy Fitzsimmons is President of Shenandoah University, located in Winchester, Virginia, a position she has held since July 2008. She previously served as Senior Vice President and Vice President for Academic Affairs of Shenandoah University since October 2006 and Vice President of Academic Affairs since July 2002. Dr. Fitzsimmons also currently serves as a professor of political science at Shenandoah University. Dr. Fitzsimmons received Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from Stanford University and a B.A. degree from Princeton University. Dr. Fitzsimmons brings to the Board additional qualifications, including her educational background, budgeting and financial experience with a large diverse educational organization, overall leadership experience and responsibilities as president of a university that offers undergraduate, masters and professional doctorate degrees and is considered a technology leader among higher education institutions.

John W. Flora has been an attorney-at-law since 1980, and currently is a shareholder of Lenhart Pettit PC in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Mr. Flora’s business and tax practice has ranged from serving as lead counsel of a publicly held Fortune 500 company to representing private companies and their owners from business formation through succession. Mr. Flora brings to the Board additional qualifications, including his career as an attorney with a regional law firm and his substantial experience in advising public companies, as well as his experience in assisting businesses with a wide variety of legal and regulatory issues.

Richard L. Koontz, Jr. has served as Vice President of Holtzman Oil Corporation, a supplier and distributor of petroleum products located in Mt. Jackson, Virginia, since 1988. He is currently a member of the Shenandoah County Public Schools Board. Mr. Koontz brings to the Board additional qualifications, including his experience as a member of senior management of a successful regional business, with substantial budget authority and finance responsibilities, his community service through membership on the Shenandoah County Public Schools Board, and his knowledge of the Company’s extensive local shareholder base.

Kenneth L. Quaglio is currently CEO and President of Celerity IT, LLC, a business acceleration consulting group that specializes in developing digital business solutions, including mobile applications, which he joined in 2017. From 2014 through 2017, Mr. Quaglio was CEO and President of Siteworx, LLC, a leading digital marketing consultancy. From 2012 through 2014, Mr. Quaglio served as Chief Operating Officer of 3Pillar Global, Inc., a global software product development company. From 2009 through 2012 he was Partner/Principal, Advisory Services Performance Improvement for Ernst and Young, LLP. Mr. Quaglio brings to the Board additional qualifications, including his experience as a CEO, and his expertise in strategy, planning and execution, leadership and management, new business development, and technology services. Mr. Quaglio also serves as an audit committee financial expert.

Michael A. Rhymes is the Chief Information Officer at Entergy (NYSE: ETR), which he joined in 2021. He is responsible for all of Entergy’s information technology systems with a focus on delivering high value and innovative IT solutions via reliable, cost-effective and secure IT services. Prior to joining Entergy, Mr. Rhymes was the Chief Information Officer at Gates Corporation where he developed the global information technology strategy and built the global IT organization required to implement and support the strategy. Before Gates, Mr. Rhymes held leadership positions at Eaton, Cooper Industries, Ernst & Young and Anderson Consulting (now known as Accenture). Mr. Rhymes received both a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a Master of Business Administration from Texas A&M University. Mr. Rhymes brings to the Board additional qualifications, including strategic planning, large scale business transformation and organizational development as well an in-depth understanding of a wide spectrum of relevant technology and cyber security issues in a highly regulated industry.

Leigh Ann Schultz has recently been named CFO and Head of Operations for Harvest Hosts, founded by Joel Holland, of StoryBlocks. Previously, Mrs. Schultz was CFO of Streetsense, LLC, a strategy and design consultancy. She was also founder and CEO of Vintage Advisory, LLC, a strategic advisory firm providing transaction, financial advisory and strategic planning support to start-up and growth companies, as well as non-profits. From 2014 through 2016, she was Managing Director for MorganFranklin Consulting, a strategy and execution-focused business consulting firm. From 2012 through 2014, she was Mid-Atlantic Managing Director of Riveron Consulting, a mergers and acquisition advisory firm. From 2010 through 2012, Ms. Schultz served in the Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), where she focused on the telecommunications sector, among others. Her responsibilities at the SEC included examining complex filings made under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, providing guidance on financial statement disclosure requirements and resolving accounting and disclosure issues arising in filings. Ms. Schultz brings to the Board additional qualifications, including her financial background and expertise in strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, acquisition integration, SEC reporting and compliance, business process improvement, and project management. Ms. Schultz was named a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Governance Fellow in 2018. Ms. Schultz also serves as an audit committee financial expert.