About Us

Liberty Towers, LLC (Liberty) is a Washington, D.C. area based communications tower company formed to develop, acquire and manage wireless communications towers in the continental United States. Liberty’s well known and respected executives and managers have over 130 years of combined experience in the wireless and communications tower industries. Liberty is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chesapeake Towers Development, LLC. Currently, Liberty is actively developing tower sites in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Ohio. If you are a wireless carrier and have a build plan that requires the development of tower sites, please contact us to discuss your needs.

Liberty is owned and managed by Chesapeake Towers Development, LLC. The officers and operating staff of Liberty consist of:

Michael E. Hofe - Founder, President and COO, Managing Director

Mr. Hofe has been involved in the wireless telecommunications industry for the past 28 years, participating in every aspect of system design, deployment, operations and management. At Liberty, Mr. Hofe is the President & COO and is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company to support Marketing and Business Development, as well as its new tower development activities, regulatory compliance and due diligence for potential new tower site development.

Prior to co-founding Liberty, Mr. Hofe was a founder of Integrated Site Development Company (ISDC), a leading East Coast-based telecommunications engineering and construction firm. ISDC was sold to Clear Holdings, Inc. in 1997 where Mr. Hofe held several senior positions as the company grew to over 600 employees and held an Initial Public Offering. Additionally, Mr. Hofe was a founding management team member of Horizon Cellular Group, a highly successful cellular Rural Service Area (“RSA”) owner/operator that was sold in 1997 in various transactions for value in excess of $570 million. At Horizon, Mr. Hofe was responsible for the design, implementation and operations of the company’s network assets, including the day-to-day operation of several hundred tower sites. Since 1999, Mr. Hofe has also served as a Managing Director of ForceNine, LLC, a finance and consulting firm which caters to the telecommunications industry.

In addition to these accomplishments, Mr. Hofe is a founding member of the PCIA President’s Advisory Board, focusing on Infrastructure Development. Mr. Hofe holds several Federal Communications Commission Licenses, including a Lifetime General Radiotelephone Operator license, and he is a past member of the National Association of Tower Erectors Safety and Education Committee. Mr. Hofe also has been an invited speaker at various industry conferences.

B. Eric Sivertsen - Founder, CEO & Managing Director

An attorney, Mr. Sivertsen has over 20 years experience in financing, acquiring, managing, developing and otherwise operating communications towers and other telecommunications businesses. At Liberty, Mr. Sivertsen is the CEO and responsible for the oversight of the Company’s administrative and legal activities, along with the raising of equity and debt capital. In early 1990, Mr. Sivertsen co-founded and served as Executive Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors of TeleCom Towers, which grew into a company that owned approximately 400 towers and managed over 2,000 other sites. TeleCom Towers was sold to American Tower (NYSE) in 1999 for a value in excess of $200 million.

In addition to his activities with Liberty, Mr. Sivertsen serves on the Board and advises several communications companies including RCC Consultants, LLC, one of the leading communications consulting firms in the country, with expertise in the design, development and implementation of public safety telecommunications systems and InSite MediaCom, LLC, an outdoor advertising company. Since 1999, Mr. Sivertsen has also served as a Managing Director of ForceNine, LLC, a finance and consulting firm which caters to the telecommunications industry.

Clark T. Madigan - Founder & Managing Director

In the late 1980’s, Mr. Madigan identified communications towers as one of the main infrastructure components of the wireless industry with similar growth prospects as the wireless carriers, but with much higher operating margins. In early 1990, Mr. Madigan co-founded and served as President of TeleCom Towers, along with Mr. Sivertsen. Over the last six years, Mr. Madigan has also consulted with a number of small independent tower companies.

Mr. Madigan is a past Chairman of the Site Owners and Managers Division of PCIA, and has appeared frequently as a speaker on panels related to the finance and operations of tower companies. Since 1999, Mr. Madigan has served as a Managing Director of ForceNine, LLC, a finance and consulting firm which caters to the telecommunications industry. From 1999 to present, Mr. Madigan has served on the Boards of Westburg Media Capital Corp., Sierra Towers Investment Group, LLC (Mexico), Shared Towers Sites, LLC, Bay Communications, LLC, Mariner Towers LLC, and Real User Corporation.

Floyd D. Jenkins - Vice President of Tower Operations

Mr. Jenkins experience in the wireless telecommunications industry has spanned the past 23 years, where he has participated in network design and engineering, network vendor evaluation and selection, network construction, and ongoing operations of wireless infrastructure and facilities. At Liberty, Mr. Jenkins is the Vice President of Tower Operations and is responsible for Marketing and Business Development, as well as diligence activities for new tower development opportunities.

Prior to joining Liberty Towers, Mr. Jenkins was Director of Network Operations for AT&T Mobility/Dobson Communications Corporation for 13 years, prior to Dobson being acquired by AT&T in 2007. In his role at Dobson, Mr. Jenkins organized and led an operations team that developed and operated 6 metropolitan statistical areas (“MSA”) and 13 rural service areas (“RSA”) across 5 states. Mr. Jenkins had direct responsibility for budget planning, forecasting, network design and implementation and the operation of over 1,200 cell sites, 5 switches and 1 media gateway, along with the supervision of 68 employees.

Between 1995 and 1986, Mr. Jenkins was employed by Horizon Cellular Telephone Company in various engineering and management capacities, prior to their acquisition by Dobson Communications Corporation. Prior to Horizon, Mr. Jenkins was employed by Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems (“BAMS”).

Samuel C. Kraus - Director of Program Management

Mr. Kraus has spent over 30 years in the communications industry in the areas of engineering and program management. As the Director of Program Management for Liberty, he is responsible for overseeing all project management, construction, and engineering operations. In addition, he is responsible for the creation and monitoring of all company program management and engineering procedures and policies. Mr. Kraus also creates all project critical path method schedules and monitors the job costs on all company construction projects.

A graduate civil engineer, Mr. Kraus has worked for Grasis Corporation; Wagner, Hohns & Inglis; Minerich, Inc., and o2 Wireless Solutions. He has managed the construction of hundreds of communication sites in the US, as well as managing projects in Saudi Arabia, Central America, and the north slope of Alaska. A partial list of Mr. Kraus’ previous clients includes: Sprint, Xcel Energy, Cricket Communications, MCI, Norfolk Southern Railroad, Motorola, Cingular, Santa Fe Railroad, Cinergy, Union Electric, and the US Department of Energy.

Edward T. Richardson - Sr. Project Manager

Mr. Richardson has worked in the Wireless & Telecommunications industry for more than 17 years. In his current capacity with Liberty, he manages the day-to-day operations of all towers to include maintenance, repair, and lighting as well as oversees new tower site construction.

Prior to Liberty, Mr. Richardson was employed by SBA Network Services working under the parent SBA Towers. There he was involved directly with new tower builds and tenant additions on SBA and other existing towers, adding wireless infrastructure throughout the Northeast region. Before that, Mr. Richardson worked for o2wireless Solutions, a publically traded Wireless Telecommunications & Construction firm based in Atlanta, Georgia. There he coordinated the engineering and deployment of a 700 site PCS carrier network, along with managing new installations for various wireless carriers. Additionally, he managed an RF Safety project for a major tower site management firm gathering data and completing reports on 65 plus wireless sites across the country.

From 1990 to 1996 Mr. Richardson was employed by companies such as Alcatel, Sprint and Atlantic Cellular in various Engineering and Management capacities operating and maintaining Retail centers, cell sites, cellular switches and microwave transmission systems.

Mr. Richardson holds degrees from The Pennsylvania State University in Telecommunications Technology and Electrical Engineering Technology. He has been previously involved with the National Association of Tower Erectors in an associate capacity on the RF Safety Committee.