Peter Feldman has 30+ years of data center development, operations, management and design experience, with a focus on implementing energy-efficient technology. He has held CEO, CTO, president and founding roles at several successful startups including the Telx group, a national leader in data center colocation services. Peter has additional expertise in optical and wireless network engineering, IT infrastructure management and cogeneration.

Prior to founding DataGryd, he served as the technical and business development interface with United Technologies Power for their hydrogen and natural gas fuel cell technology and CCHP micro-turbines, and worked with AMSC (formerly American Superconductor), a developer of superconducting cable, SMES and transformer technology for data centers. Peter holds several industry-related patents and is an active member of a number of professional trade organizations, including the IEEE, Open-IX, iMasons, AFCOM, the Green Building Council and the Cloud Computing Council. He’s given presentations at many industry events, including Interop New York, Green Data Center Conference & Exhibition, 7×24 Exchange, and IMN’s Financing, Investing & Real Estate Development for Data Centers Conference, PTC in Hawaii and for Data Center Dynamics conferences.

Sean is the Vice President of Data Center Strategy for the Americas, charged with developing deeper client relationships, broader industry awareness, and enhanced partner collaboration by evangelizing JLL’s broad facility management, sustainability, commissioning, capital market, colocation and cloud advisory services. He works with clients to fully leverage the firm’s capabilities to maximum digital infrastructure value, minimize facility risk and drive data center innovation.

Sean has also led Digital Transformation strategic programs at two Fortune 500 companies, executing global data center consolidation and cloud migration, and initiatives that resulted in reduced time-to-revenue.

He is active in the industry, participating in panels, roundtables, podcasts, and other speaking events. Sean publishes regularly on such venues as Data Center Frontier, Data Center Dynamics, Mission Critical Magazine, and Data Centre Magazine.

John Regan serves as the Chief Investment Officer and has been in the technology and facilities infrastructure space for over three decades. In his most recent role as SVP of Acquisitions and CTO for Landmark Dividend, he executed on over a $1 billion in Digital Infrastructure acquisitions.

Prior to Landmark, Mr. Regan worked with Carter Validus (CV) Advisors where he was instrumental in the development and execution of the CV Mission Critical REIT I & II data center platforms from inception. Mr. Regan made CV’s first acquisition in July 2011. By October 2017, pipeline development and management led to closing of over 50 deals, amassing $2 billion of data center assets totaling more than 4.5 million square feet. Mr. Regan is a data center industry leader frequently speaking and moderating at conferences across the U.S. having a number of articles published by and about him.

Mr. Regan’s experience spans over 35 years within information technology, facilities infrastructure, business development, sales and acquisitions serving in various leadership positions while also providing advisory services and consulting for multiple startups. Mr. Regan served in leadership positions for 18 years with PWC, LLP as National Director of Data Center Services, National Director of Network Services, and Director of Infrastructure Delivery.

In these roles, Mr. Regan led technology and facilities infrastructure engineers and project managers through the execution of more than 26 million square feet of real estate projects spanning renovations, restacks, retrofits, consolidations, new builds and the merger of technology and facility infrastructure of Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse.

Mr. Regan achieved recognition by ComputerWorld for PWC as the number one Green IT organization worldwide in 2010 after the completion of a state-of-the-art Tier III LEED Gold-certified data center and driving other conservation practices organizationally. Mr. Regan is also an expert in BCDR having developed and executed a multi-tiered program creating PWC’s firm-wide Disaster Recovery program.

Mr. Regan has a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from St. Leo University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. Mr. Regan holds several certifications in the infrastructure space having achieved Accredited Tier Specialist (ATS), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) credentials. He holds multiple certifications and various systems designations through Digital Equipment Corporation, Research Triangle Institute, and NCSU.

Global Keynote, Panelist and Moderator including events in US, Singapore , Hong Kong , Dublin , London , Monaco and Costa Rica. 30 years experience in common sense and assisting Foreign Direct investment into Europe, Founder of award winning Host in Ireland and recognised at one of the top 50 EMEA Influencers in Cloud and Data centres 2017 by Data Economy June 2017 and Runner up in Data Centre Individual of year at DCS Awards May 2017. Demonstrates a Pragmatic and common sense approach to Data Centre Site Selection, Sales, Negotiation, Company Start ups, mentoring and strategic thinking, Getting things done, facilitating logical and straightforward thinking, bringing things and people together and getting results, timely an accurate results orientated, comfortable at either board or operational level, FDI, IT, ICT, Experienced, Data Centres, Pan EU DC Site Selection, Cloud Computing, Real Estate, startup management.

fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty is a leading developer and operator of custom-designed data centers with over 1.3 million square feet of data center space in Orangeburg, NY | Toronto, ON | Chicago, IL (2) | Milwaukee, WI | Cheyenne, WY | Portland, OR | San Francisco, CA | Kapolei, HI. Central to our strategy is our ability to uncover the true intrinsic value of properties and opportunistically develop world-class data center facilities. Our focus is providing tenants with strategic, customized mission critical solutions from concept through completion. With over 60 years of experience in developing, renovating and operating data center space, our wealth of expertise allows us to be uniquely positioned to work with each client to develop the best strategy to meet their specific needs -- from colocation to sale/leaseback, refurbishment or construction of a purpose-built data center. For more information, please visit us at www.1547realty.com.

Corey Welp is the Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner of fifteenfortyseven

Critical Systems Realty ("1547"). Mr. Welp is responsible for defining and implementing

the firm's investment strategy, overseeing portfolio construction, financial modeling, risk

assessment, asset acquisition, and property monetization. He is also actively engaged

in securing debt and equity capital and maintaining investor relations. Under his

leadership, 1547 has successfully completed sixteen data center acquisitions across

eight U.S. states and Canada, deploying approximately $1.2 billion to acquire and

develop assets comprising approximately 1.95 million square feet and 219 Megawatts

of power. With his expertise, strategic vision, and unwavering dedication to excellence,

Mr. Welp continues to lead his Dallas-based team in their commitment to building a

portfolio of world-class data center assets, driving the continued growth and success of

1547.

Prior to founding 1547, Mr. Welp established Oak Star Partners, a consulting firm that

specialized in supporting alternative investment management firms in structuring their

investment offerings and raising capital. Earlier in his career, he held executive positions

in both boutique and major investment management firms, such as Henderson Global,

AIM Investments, and Enterprise Capital Management, where he primarily worked in

investment sales. Through his extensive network, he secured over $4 billion for

investment opportunities across various asset classes, including technology and real

estate.

Mr. Welp graduated from Creighton University with a Bachelor of Science in Business

Administration. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of ColoHouse, LLC, a

national provider of colocation, cloud, managed and bare metal services.

Bill blends business acumen, technology insight, and industry experience to provide product and service strategy for ServerCentral. He also enjoys good restaurants, great bourbon, hiking & camping, and spending time with his family.

As Co-Founder, Jerry Blair was instrumental in DataBank’s inception in 2005. In his role, Blair is charged with executing on the company’s sales strategy. With a successful track record spanning more than 20 years in senior sales management, Blair’s experience and proven ability to implement results-driven direct and channel-focused sales programs is a very welcome continued asset to the company. Prior to DataBank, Blair was Vice President of Sales for Switch and Data and LayerOne. He has also served as General Manager of Sales for Lucent Technologies and has held sales management positions with various industry leaders including ICG Communications, Nortel Communications, and Wellfleet Communications.

Eric is the Co-Founder, Managing Partner and CTO, focused on Technology Architecture & Engineering and Design. With over 20 years in competitive, fast-moving industries, Eric has developed software, designed complex global infrastructures, and managed large technology installations for international pharmaceutical companies and private capital firms. His background in infrastructure design and integration, combined with his vision, has helped him to reduce budgets by millions while adding inherent value to existing departments through excellence in staff and deployment. Eric is also AWS Certified.

Chris Flynn brings more than 25 years of commercial real estate experience and well over $25 billion in overall real estate transaction experience to Strategic Data Center Fund Manager, LLC. As Chief Investment Officer, Chris provides the strategic vision to turn business goals into actionable plans with appropriate risk management. In this role, he is responsible for acquisitions, leasing and management strategy.

Prior to Strategic Data Center Fund Manager, LLC, Chris was President at Lightstone Data Fund where he served as the company’s leader in the investment of digital infrastructure assets. In this capacity, he had overall responsibility for the strategic planning, capital raising, financing, acquisitions, development, operation and leasing.

Prior to joining Lightstone, Chris was a Vice President of Global Real Estate at EdgeConneX, a wholesale data center owner and developer, where he was responsible for all aspects of real estate including the acquisition and development of 40 data centers in the U.S., Canada, Europe and South America. The EdgeConneX portfolio consisted of over 3 million square feet, in excess of 350 megawatts of critical power and over $6 billion worth of data center transactions which helped EdgeConneX to grow from one data center in 2013 to a global presence in the edge and hyperscale market.

He was formerly the Director of Real Estate at XO Communications, a telecommunications company owned by Verizon Communications which provides managed and converged internet protocol network services for small and medium-sized enterprises. During his time at XO, Chris led a real estate team responsible for over $10 billion in acquisitions, renewals and dispositions and managed over 50,000 telecom license agreements. Chris serves on the board of directors for The First Tee of Washington, D.C. and volunteers at Stone Ridge School and Mater Dei School.

An award-winning executive with more than 25 years of experience in the IT outsourcing, cloud,

security and SaaS industries, Tina is SVP of Global Channels and Alliances, Cyxtera. Prior to

Cyxtera, Tina was a Senior Vice President of Global Channels and Strategic Alliances for

Cryptzone, a Cyxtera Business. Before joining Cryptzone, Tina held the role of General Manager

and Vice President for Dimension Data’s Cloud Services Business in the Americas. Tina also

served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Nirvanix, leading the company’s

sales, marketing and indirect channel programs. Tina was a member of the original

management team at Terremark, a Verizon company, where she held several leadership roles

over 14 years, including Vice President of Global Channels and Alliances, Managing Partner for

the IT outsourcing (ITO) business, and Vice President of Terremark’s Central Region Sales

operations. Her guidance helped take the company from $400,000 in annual sales in 1999, to

the acquisition by Verizon for $1.4 billion in 2010. Tina also gained additional sales experience

in senior positions at leading IT companies including NetGravity (now owned by Google), SAS,

Sybase (now owned by SAP) and CSC. Tina has also worked as an independent consultant,

helping start up technology organizations to increase their revenue, monetize their intellectual

property assets and obtain funding.

In May of 2018, Tina Gravel Received WoM2M award for achievement in the field of IoT by

Connected World Magazine. In April 2018, Channel Partners Online awarded Tina one of the

highly coveted, “Channel Chief of the Year” awards. In April 2017, Tina received the Cloud Girls

“TrailBlazer Award” for her work in cloud computing and was named one of the “Women in the

Channel 2017” by CRN. In 2016, Tina was included as #18 in CRN’s “100 People You Don’t Know

but Should” List for her work with Cryptzone. In 2013, 2017, and 2018, Tina was included in

CRN’s annual Top 50 "Women of the Channel" list for her successful work in the indirect

channel and with alliances. In 2004, she was a top ten "Women in Black" recipient, an honor

given by the City of Chicago and istreet Magazine, which recognized Gravel’s leadership in the

technology industry. She has had published articles in many publications, serves on the

Advisory Board for Channel Partners Magazine (now a Penton Company) and the Executive

Board of the Illinois Technology Association. Board of Directors for Cloud Girls and Advisory

Board for Alliance of Women in the Channel.Follow Tina on Twitter @tgravel.

A former U.S. Air Force officer who helped launch GPS satellites into orbit, as Chief Customer Officer, Craig leads the cross-functional management of T5’s customer engagement and success programs along with the development and execution of all corporate marketing and communications strategies. Craig holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Miami and a Master of Business Administration with concentrations in finance and marketing from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Anthony oversees business development and leasing across Fortune 500 enterprise accounts, and is instrumental in guiding the company’s collaborative ecosystem of partnerships, which include brokerage relationships, alliance partners and Stream’s growing channel program.

Bringing more than two and a half decades of technical real estate expertise to the team, Anthony delivers data center and commercial real estate insight to ensure Stream excels at meeting customers’ evolving needs with tailored mission-critical solutions.

Over the years, Anthony has served as an expert panelist and guest speaker for a number of professional data center organizations, including datacenterHawk, Data Center Dynamics, in addition to multiple AFCOM events and panels.

Prior to joining Stream Data Centers in 2007, Anthony was a founding member of the data center solutions group at CBRE, where he specialized in delivering data center services to technical real estate owners and users.

Anthony holds a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics with an emphasis in Real Estate Valuation from Texas A&M University.

Milind Wagle joined Equinix in April 2010 and serves as the Global CIO within the Customer Success Organization. Wagle leads the global IT team and oversees the solution delivery for enterprise applications, information security, and end-user technology infrastructure support for Equinix’s thousands of global employees.

For the past six years, Wagle has served in various senior leadership roles within the IT team at Equinix, most recently as Vice President. In addition to managing the global IT applications portfolio, he has managed large-scale, cross-functional enterprise transformation programs for the company, including designing and deploying process, system and organizational standardization across the globe. Previously he has held leadership positions at VeriSign, KPMG Consulting and BearingPoint.

Mr. Wagle holds a BS, Electronics Engineering from University of Mumbai.

Roxanna, based in San Francisco, California, has more than 15 years of telecommunication and data center industry experience with extensive cloud services knowledge. She has built a large network of colleagues and experts in Silicon Valley as well as globally by partnering with leading high-growth multinational companies. Her experience includes representing clients and managing the sales process across a broad range of transactions. Prior to joining e-shelter, Roxanna was a Vice President of Sales at Bridge Data Centres, as well as a Hybrid IT Director at Level 3 Communications (acquired by CenturyLink in 2017) in a role responsible for all U.S. West Coast data center and cloud transactions before that. Level 3 Communications acquired tw telecom in 2017, where Roxanna served as Alliances Director, managing technical projects between tw telecom and large data center REITs. Roxanna relocated from Sweden to San Francisco in 1998 where she completed her Science Studies and later received a B.A. in Advertising from University of Art, San Francisco, with a focus on Account Planning. She speaks four languages. She is currently working on becoming a Certified Commercial Investment Member.

Over his 30-year career, James Leach has been part of the core teams developing internet, telecommunications, and infrastructure solutions, including: DNS security, global web domains, performance monitoring, industry vertical solutions, content delivery networks (CDN), virtual private networks (VPN), cloud computing, and data center colocation. Mr. Leach spent the first 15 years of his career at IBM, starting out as an engineer and then moving into sales, business development, and marketing. For the last 15 years, James has been a top marketing executive at Savvis, Internap, Neustar, Harris Corporation, and now RagingWire. At RagingWire, Mr. Leach is the overall marketing leader responsible for a data center portfolio of 1.5 million square feet and 113 megawatts of critical power in the United States and a global data center platform of 140 locations in 19 countries and regions as part of the Nexcenter brand of NTT Communications. In addition to his duties at RagingWire, Mr. Leach serves as the Chairperson of the Leadership Board for the Data Center and Cloud Infrastructure Committee of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), one of the largest and most influential technology associations in the United States. Mr. Leach also was nominated and approved by the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors to be a member of the Executive Committee of the Loudoun Economic Development Advisory Commission (EDAC), and currently serves in that role.

Mark Polimus is a Principal Architect with Equinix. He helps Enterprises with network transformation/modernization, Cloud accessibility and connectivity needs overall in taking advantage of the Equinix platform for Interconnection. Mark began his career with Sun Microsystems/Oracle over 25 years ago and has held various positions in Systems Engineering and Technical Product Management. He holds a Master of Science degree in Network & Communication Systems from Northwestern University.

Sean Khurana is President and Chief Operating Officer of Cavern Technologies. Sean oversees daily operations and ongoing development initiatives to maintain and expand Cavern’s position as a leading data center solutions provider. Sean is dedicated to leading innovation in the industry and providing customers with product and service offerings that are second to none.

Mr. Khurana has a strong background in leading major business initiatives for large startups and Fortune 500 firms. His expertise in building businesses around new products, technologies, and customer segments are valuable assets. Most recently, Khurana was Senior VP for Avatron Park, a mega startup theme park based in Atlanta, GA. Prior positions included VP, Product Marketing for Cablevision in New York, NY, and VP, Strategic Programs and Business Operations for Sprint-Nextel, in Overland Park, KS. Sean also served as Chief of Staff, reporting directly to the Sprint CEO.

Mr. Khurana holds an MBA in Strategic Management and Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He also has an MS in Civil/Environmental Engineering from North Carolina State University, and an MS in Physics, as well as a BS in Civil Engineering, from Birla Institute of Technology and Science. Sean is actively involved as a community leader, serving as a Board Member for the Johnson County Community College Foundation and earning recognition on the Kansas City Civic Council as a Kansas City Tomorrow Nominee.

Danielle Dy Buncio is the Co-Founder and CEO of VIATechnik, a construction and engineering services firm transforming the construction industry. Through virtual design and construction VT blends global human capital with cutting-edge construction technologies. Danielle leads the company’s strategic growth efforts and builds and manages client relationships with some of the largest AEC firms around the country. Under Danielle’s leadership, the firm’s innovative and landmark projects have included everything from a point cloud BIM of one of the world’s largest breweries to the creation of a virtual “gaming” environment of a nuclear power plant. Danielle and the VIATechnik team are spearheading advancement of BIM, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence in the industry. Prior to founding VIATechnik, Danielle worked for general contractors in Silicon Valley, Sydney, and Chicago. As a Civil Engineer and a LEED Accredited Professional, she has extensive commercial building, heavy civil, and marine construction experience. She holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Danielle is a recognized industry thought leader and has spoken at industry events including ENR Groundbreaking Women in Construction, ENR FutureTech, AGC BIMForum, CSI Master Specifiers Retreat, Dodge Annual Construction Outlook, and Autodesk University. Danielle was the closing keynote at the Builtworlds CEO Tech Forum in 2016. She was recently invited to China to speak to key government officials and industry leaders on global trends in BIM and construction technology. Danielle was named one of the top “Women to Watch in Virtual Reality” and she received the 2017 Women in Construction Award by Constructech Magazine. She is also on the Advisory Board of Flux.io, a technology start-up born out of GoogleX, tacking the issue of big data for construction.

Kylle Jordan is a Regional Business Development Manager for the Minnesota Department of

Employment and Economic Development (DEED).  In her role she works closely with companies of all

types to help them locate and expand in communities throughout Minnesota.  She manages DEED’s

Shovel Ready program and is also the state’s industry specialist in Data Centers. Kylle works with many

data center developers and managers to grow and promote the State of Minnesota as an ideal location

for new projects, help them qualify for the state’s sales tax incentive program, and provide forums for

these industry professionals to connect.  As of January 2018 the State of Minnesota has 33 data centers

certified under the sales tax incentive program, ranging from colocation providers like Stream and

DataBank to enterprise facilities like Target and United Health Group. Please click on our Sponsor Logo to learn about valuable tax incentives. To connect with Kylle, please call 651-259- 7436 or email Kylle.Jordan@state.mn.us

Currently serving as the Vice President & General Manager for Mortenson’s Chicago office, Andy is focused on overall strategy development and direction of all facets of the group, including relationship management, preconstruction, construction and business development activities. He also works closely with Mortenson’s national Mission Critical team of experts across the country. Andy's unique technical background in MEP systems and passion for customer service has led to a robust career at Mortenson. Andy was selected to be part of Mortenson’s first international project, a substrates facility for Seagate Technology in Limavady, Northern Ireland. He has worked on a multitude of impressive projects, including the $211 million Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. In June 2003, he returned to Chicago to become part of Mortenson’s Chicago operating group. Since then, Andy has worked on over $900 million of healthcare projects in northern Illinois and northwest Indiana, while simultaneously leading Mortenson’s development of Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) and Building Information Modeling (BIM). He actively participates in promoting the progress and education of these dynamic areas of our industry. Andy also served as the Director of Business Development for the Chicago office and was involved in many notable projects including data centers for QTS, Allstate Insurance, United Airlines and other mission critical customers and construction of the new Lurie Children’s hospital. Outside of Mortenson, Andy keeps a busy agenda filled with speaking engagements and civic activities.

Dave Hall, President – Midwest Region, and Executive Managing Director at Clune Construction, is a

founding member of the company’s Mission Critical Division. Under his leadership, Clune Construction

has grown to become one of North America’s largest and most respected builders of data centers and

the infrastructure that supports mission critical facilities. A strategic thought leader, he was instrumental

in developing a method of planning, building, testing and commissioning data center projects by

recognizing the technological and environmental nuances, as well as the unique scheduling demands

involved. He studied Electrical Engineering and holds a degree in Building Construction Management

from Purdue University. Clune is a national general contractor with offices in Chicago; Los Angeles; New

York; San Francisco, and Washington, DC.

An industrial water treatment expert, Robert Miller is the founder, owner, and President of

Earthwise Environmental. Robert Miller is a Certified Water Technologist (CWT) who has over 30

years of onsite experience with HVAC and water systems for mission critical facilities. As a CWT,

Robert Miller is a recognized authority on Legionella testing, management, and control methods.

Forward-thinking in the water treatment industry, Robert Miller started Earthwise in 1995 to go

beyond the business model of hazardous chemical manufacturing and sales. Earthwise is a full

water solutions partner for data centers, hospitals, universities, manufacturers, and food &

beverage companies with onsite maintenance needs. Robert Miller created the Earthwise

Standard of Care to guarantee quality technical service and encourage continuous improvement

for customer facilities nationwide.

Robert Miller is a member of the Association of Water Technologies (AWT), the American Society

of Heating, Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, and Engineering (ASHRAE), and Cooling Technology

Institute (CTI).

Jamie Bollinger is the Director of Strategic Sales and Operations for Energy and Construction at Aerotek.

He is responsible for driving business development and developing customized workforce solutions and

resources for national customers across the Energy and Construction industry.

Jaime joined Aerotek in 1998 as a commercial recruiter and shortly thereafter moved into sales, opening

a new office in California. He later accepted the role of director of program services, supporting the

Southwest and West regions. In 2013, Jamie was promoted to his current role as the Director of Strategic

Sales and Operations for the Energy and Construction industry. Jamie sits in Aerotek’s Richardson, Texas

office. Jamie is a graduate of Lebanon Valley College where he received a B.A. in Education.

Mitch Carrel is a Partner in the Real Estate Practice Group.

His practice focuses on representing public and private companies, land owners, developers and investors and helping them secure land use and zoning approvals, public incentives, local regulatory and siting approvals, as well as performing zoning due diligence. Among Mitch's projects, he has helped obtain approvals for the siting of wireless communications facilities and written about the process from siting to completion. He also represents clients before local plan commissions, zoning boards and city councils. Before joining Freeborn, Mitch was a shareholder and led the Land Use Group at Vedder Price PC in Chicago.

As a member of the both the Food and Transportation Teams, Mitch helps companies in these industries secure land use and zoning approvals, public incentives, and local regulatory and siting approvals.

Mitch also contributes to The Freeborn Dispatch Blog(link is external), the firm's transportation blog.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

Land use and zoning approvals for a 53-story, mixed-use, high-rise building in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood.

Land use and related approvals for a 40-story mixed use, office, retail and residential building on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile.

Oversight of zoning, entitlements, and street vacation matters to ensure rail operations were not impeded or negatively impacted, as part of a sale of air rights over existing rail operations, allowing for a 750-foot tall office building to be constructed in downtown Chicago.

Land use, street vacations and related approvals for numerous market rate and affordable senior housing developments including assisted living facilities, supportive living facilities, and memory care facilities in Chicago and the Chicago suburbs.

Land use and zoning due diligence in connection with the acquisition of an approximately $112 million 27-story, Class A mixed-use office building in Chicago’s Central Business District.

Land use and related diligence to assist a joint venture partner in connection with proposals for a 2,000-foot tall, $1.5 billion project in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood.

Land use, financial incentives, fiber optic conduit path use agreements and other approvals in connection with data centers in downtown Chicago.

Land use and related approvals for a youth sports academy sponsored by two major Chicago sports team in the Chicago suburbs.

Conduit Path and Facility Use Agreement with the City of Chicago for a data center project.

Land use and public way waivers and approvals for high rise, mixed use projects on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile.

Land use approvals for an approximately 400,000 square foot manufacturing facility in the western suburbs of Chicago.

Land use, public way and related approvals for numerous hospital expansions in Chicago.

Public way approvals for numerous high rise buildings in downtown Chicago.

Land use, zoning and public way approvals for shopping center expansion projects in Chicago and the Chicago suburbs.

Land use and related approvals for numerous grocery store projects in Chicago and the Chicago suburbs.

Land use and related approvals for numerous branch banks in Chicago and the Chicago suburbs.

Represented a food-related company in connection with a drive-through coffee facility on Chicago's north side.

Assisted banking institutions with drive-through facilities in Chicago and in the Chicago suburbs,

Land use related approvals for numerous dialysis centers throughout Chicago.

As a practicing attorney for more than 32 years, Tom’s practice has centered on the development of telecommunications and data centers. Tom has closed more than $500 million in transactions, including the sale or merger of companies on every continent (except Antarctica). Tom has represented and been a part of the legal and development teams that own urban data centers throughout the world, including the Quinby Building in Los Angeles, GNO TeleHouse in London, various entities in Indianapolis and 15 W. 37th Street in Manhattan, New York.

Tom is typically tasked to resolve specific problems, ranging from labor stoppages in Eastern Europe, to raising money for companies, to infrastructure and data center management issues in North America. His past clients include multinational corporations, foreign governments, and small businesses within specific industries. He uses his legal background to develop creative solutions to unique problems.

He has an unusual breadth and depth of substantive legal experience, including 20 years of experience serving as the Secretary and General Counsel for TK6, Inc./CES International, Inc. and 4 years of experience serving as General Counsel and minority shareholder of GEMCO Constructors, LLC.

Tom resides in Indianapolis and has worked from offices in London, Sydney, Tampa, Chicago, San Francisco and New York. He graduated from Wabash College and the Indiana University School of Law.

Hannah Erb, an Account Executive for Collabrance, is responsible for providing business planning, education, training, and sales assistance to partners. She is also responsible for originating and onboarding new MSP partners onto the Collabrance platform which include discussions with C-Levels on how to help them achieve greater success. Hannah started at Collabrance in 2013 and developed her role to what it has evolved to today. In 2014, Hannah was nominated by her peers and won Rookie of the Year, and in 2018 became a member of the 100% Sales Achievement Club at GreatAmerica. She was also nominated as the Young Leader for the Cannata report in 2017. Hannah earned her business degree in Marketing and Management Information Systems from the University of Iowa.

Collabrance, a Master MSP, helps Service Providers scale their Managed Services business faster and with less risk. Our Midwest-based Help Desk and NOC is designed to equip MSPs with the people, processes, and technology to effectively compete in today's market

Miles Loo Jr., CRE, FRICS, joined Newmark Valuation & Advisory in 2017 in the Downtown Los Angeles office, where he serves as Vice Chairman and the Global Lead for Newmark Valuation & Advisory’s Data Centers & Life Science group. Miles is well recognized as the industry’s leading appraiser of data center properties. His experience includes advising private equity funds, institutional investors, large pension funds, Fortune 500 companies, cloud companies and Global IT conglomerates on investments in all types of data centers, including mission critical, disaster recovery data centers, colocation facilities, carrier hotels, internet gateways and life science properties. These assignments have involved data centers owned and/or operated by Fortune 500 companies across numerous industries as well as Uptime Institute Site Certified Tier III and Tier IV facilities; U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED Platinum, Gold and Silver buildings; and state and federal disaster recovery data centers. Miles has led valuations of large individual and portfolio valuations spanning multiple countries across six continents (NA, EMEA, APAC, LATAM and African regions) and has consulted on a number of the world’s largest data centers.

Conleth O’Flynn came to AHA Consulting Engineers in 1993 by way of Ireland, where he earned his degree from Dublin University (Trinity College Dublin) and attended the Dublin Institute of Technology. In 2001, he relocated from Boston to open AHA’s Atlanta office. Working his way from a project engineer to Managing Partner, clients and colleagues have benefited from his nature as a problem solver. Combined with this knowledge of the latest in industry technology and methodologies, he tailors his client services specifically to their individual organizational needs. Conleth’s real passion lay in his holistic methodology to client service. Rather than addressing only what is asked, he delves into what prompts the question to ensure the he delivers comprehensive answers and offers complete solutions. He has applied this approach for companies like eBay, PayPal, DataGryd and NCR. Conleth leads AHA with dedication to his trade and an enthusiasm for collaboration.

Mike has more than 30 years of sophisticated and broad-based real estate experience representing clients in buying, selling, developing, leasing and financing real estate assets in all asset classes. Since 2010, he has been at the forefront of the expanding, multi-disciplinary data center, digital infrastructure and IT commercial contracting fields that straddle real estate and technology. Mike was named the 2023 Lawyer of the Year in Chicago for Privacy and Data Security Law by Best Lawyers. He is in-demand for presentations at digital infrastructure conferences and is often quoted in trade periodicals.

Mike's clients include insurance companies, Fortune 500 companies, pension funds, investment advisers, enterprise companies, financial institutions, real estate developers, high-tech companies and data center developers/providers. His recent transactions include representing multiple platform data center companies in acquiring land for development, developing data centers and entering into leases and master services agreements with major technology companies; acquiring operating data centers for private equity-backed real estate and technology funds; representing a financial services client in the outsourcing of all of its legacy IT infrastructure supporting its banking operations and applications, including mission-critical banking applications; negotiating joint venture agreements related to the development of data centers and multi-family developments; and representing a real estate investment company in the sale of a carrier hotel/data center in a major US market.

Ed Sitar (pronounced “sitter”) is the Senior Manager of Economic Development at ComEd, where he oversees the company’s strategy and efforts to recruit and retain large business customers and grow jobs and investment in key industries across northern Illinois. Ed is a 29-year veteran of the company, where he has worked closely with development partners to leverage ComEd’s reliable, affordable, and clean energy services to secure major business investment wins for the region. During his tenure with ComEd, he has been a part of the company’s competitive business attraction efforts, helping prospective customers’ to navigate a decision to expand or grow in Illinois amid a changing regulatory climate (prior to the industry’s deregulation in 1997, and on to Illinois’ nation-leading CEJA law). He has also shaped commercial energy efficiency policies and programs to serve the needs of ComEd’s large customers and helped support development projects with commitments to create 250,000 jobs over the last decade.