Communications Sales & Leasing Inc. has named Daniel Heard as general counsel. Heard is a partner in the Little Rock offices of Kutak Rock LLP. The appointment is effective April 1, 2015. The company also announced that Rob Clancy has been named assistant treasurer and vice president of investor relations. Clancy previously served as senior vice president of finance at Cbeyond. At Kutak Rock, Heard, represented public companies in corporate, securities and merger and acquisition transactions. His clients comprised a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, information
technology and food processing. Heard has more than 15 years' experience in negotiating, structuring and
consummating mergers and acquisitions, public offerings of debt and equity securities and other corporate
finance transactions. At Cbeyond, Clancy, oversaw treasury, investor relations and financial planning. Before joining Cbeyond, he was senior vice president and treasurer for Windstream, where he had responsibility for the company's treasury and capital market functions, investor relations, corporate communications and risk management groups. He came to Windstream with the spin off from Alltel, where he served as vice president of investor relations in addition to holding a variety of other management positions.