CubeSmart announced that Joel Keaton has been promoted to the position of Senior Vice President of Operations. In this capacity, Mr. Keaton will have direct oversight of the Company's store operations, which encompass 531 locations organized in three geographic divisions. Mr. Keaton was previously CubeSmart's Vice President of Marketing and has more than 20 years of self-storage industry experience, including management positions at two other publicly traded self-storage REITs and a national provider of self-storage property management services.

Daniel Ruble has been appointed Vice President of Marketing. Mr. Ruble, who previously served as CubeSmart's Vice President of Finance and coordinated the Company's investor relations function, has also held various positions in operations, analytics and investments since joining the Company in 2009. Guy Middlebrooks has been named Vice President of Third-Party Management.

Mr. Middlebrooks replaces Carol Shipley in the role she held from 2010 until her recent retirement. Mr. Middlebrooks previously served as the Company's Vice President of Operations and has more than 25 years of retail and self-storage operations experience. Charles Place has joined CubeSmart as Director of Investor Relations.

Mr. Place brings to the role past experiences including investment banking, both buy-side and sell-side equity research covering the REIT industry, and most recently, market research for a private, triple-net lease REIT.