Tom Bailey joined the Xcel Energy team as Senior Director, Corporate Economic Development in January. Tom is responsible for engaging customers to locate new facilities within Xcel Energy’s service territory and supporting the expansion of existing customers increasing opportunities for capital and revenue growth, job creation and community advancement.

Previously with CenterPoint Energy/Vectren Corporation, Tom has over 20 years of utility experience where he held several customer experience, industrial sales and economic development roles.  His most recent responsibilities were leading and executing detailed contract negotiations and rate design to successfully attract and retain industrial and advanced manufacturing projects in excess of $20B in capital investment.

Tom earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He earned his MBA from Arthur J. Bauernfeind College of Business at Murray State University. Additionally, Tom completed the Mays Business School Executive Development Leadership Program from Texas A&M University. Tom and his wife, Jennifer, currently reside in Parker, CO and have two children, Zelma and Hartwell.

Kristine Fraley is one of the founders and Chief Operating Officer of 2210Cortez, a carrier neutral co-location facility and data center in Cortez, Colorado, located in the Four Corners region. Kristine has worked in both a paid and volunteer capacity to promote economic development in Montezuma County and the Cortez area. She is passionate about helping her community become more resilient and sees fiber, broadband and a Data Center hub, key to lifting up the region. Kristine worked for 16 years in the non-profit community, 10 of those serving as an Executive Director. She has also served in a leadership role on several non-profit boards. She owned and operated a small business for an additional 10 years before becoming a current co-owner of a managed service and security provider in the Cortez region as well as founding 2210Cortez.

Mike DeVito has been a member of the Tonaquint team since Jan '23, and leads our sales, marketing, and commercial management efforts. Mike joined Tonaquint from DIF Capital Partners, where he serves as a Data Center Operating Advisor. Mike has extensive global experience, having worked in over 30 countries, including multiple expatriate assignments. His previous positions include Chief Commercial Officer at Iron Mountain Data Centers, Senior Vice President of Sales at Digital Realty Trust, and EVP of Global Solutions at NTT. Outside of work, Mike enjoys spending time with his family, horseback riding, and studying history.

Regis has spent nearly 30 years in the technology industry, primarily in strategy, sales, business development, partnerships, and corporate development capacities.

As Chief Strategy Officer, Regis will help shape the company’s strategic vision for market growth and site expansion. Leveraging his broad colocation experience with hyperscale, wholesale, retail, and edge, Malloy will also contribute to Element Critical’s product design, go-to-market, and sustainability efforts.

Regis came into the data center industry in 2010 and has held key positions at CoreSite and Sabey Data Centers. Previously, Regis held important roles at leading software, communications, and managed services companies, including Oracle, Avaya, and Qwest CyberSolutions.

Mr. Sherwood is a principal and founder of Kenai Capital Advisors. He has more than 15 years of experience in commercial real estate investments, asset management, and capital markets. Jules is intently focused on the strategic direction of the company, strategic acquisitions, capital relationships, and asset management.

Prior to creating Kenai Capital, Jules started the middle market investment sales platform in the Rocky Mountain region for Holliday Fenoglio Fowler (HFF). He represented High Net-Worth Individuals, Family Offices, Private Equity groups, and institutional investment advisors on their industrial and office holdings. During his time at HFF, Jules was a part of over $1 billion in real estate sales, financings, and equity raises. He served as the Broker of Record for HFF in 6 states.

Before joining HFF, Jules opened the Denver office of Rockwood Real Estate Advisors, a New York based real estate investment advisor. At Rockwood, he led an investment sales team covering retail, office, and industrial assets across the mountain west and functioned as the broker of record for the company in more than 20 states. Prior to that, he was the regional director of real estate for the western United States for Trigild, then the largest receivership company in the country. At Trigild, he helped grow their assets under management from 200,000sf to over 20,000,000sf in under 3 years.

Jules is a former Lieutenant in the United States Navy, has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Cornell University, and an MBA in finance from Arizona State University.

Kemal Hawa is a corporate partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Kemal represents many of the world’s largest private equity firms, infrastructure funds, real estate investors and lenders across a broad range of transactions in the digital infrastructure sector domestically and internationally, including mergers and acquisitions, investments, financing arrangements, joint ventures and development projects.

Kemal counsels clients in complex transactions across the digital infrastructure and telecommunications, media and technology industries. This includes many of the world’s largest data center operators, telecommunications carriers, tower companies, cloud providers, fiber providers, media companies, submarine cable operators, fintech companies, wireless and international carriers, internet service providers, satellite companies, equipment manufacturers and electric utilities.

In addition to M&A and financing transactions, Kemal represents companies in connection with the full spectrum of digital infrastructure transactions globally, including the negotiation of data center leases and colocation agreements, telecommunications master service agreements, licensing deals and other commercial transactions.

Kemal is a frequent author and speaker on digital infrastructure topics and has consistently been recognized as an industry leading attorney in the sector. In 2023, Kemal was named as one of Capacity Media’s “Power 100” – a list of the 100 most influential people in the digital infrastructure sector globally, and was voted “TMT M&A Lawyer of the Year” by an independent panel of judges organized by TMT Finance.

Therese is based in the Company’s Denver office and leads EdgeCore’s day-to-day data center operations and customer-lifecycle activities, from lease execution and move in through expiration and move out, including space build out, on-going support, and incident management. Therese brings significant experience in designing strategy and leading execution and operation of end-to-end service-delivery and customer-support teams, systems, and processes. Therese joined EdgeCore following roles of progressive accountability at CoreSite Realty Corporation, most recently as Vice President supporting and leading the company’s activities around customer-lifecycle management for more than 1,200 customers and $500M+ in annualized revenue. Her responsibilities included a) on-boarding and capacity deployment, b) on-going support via self-service systems (portal management) and a team of Strategic Account Service Representatives, c) capacity and contract management, d) service-processes design and improvement, and e) incident engagement, remediation, and avoidance. Prior to CoreSite, Therese was a Dean’s Research Fellow at the University of Colorado Law School, where she authored and collaborated in authoring works related to cybersecurity, telecommunications, and technology. Therese holds a B.A. in International Business from The University of Texas at Austin and a J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law.

Mitch Fonseca leads the global datacenter product management and commercial services teams for Cyxtera, responsible for product pricing and positioning. With over 11 years in IT infrastructure, Fonseca has experience in product management, operations, sales, finance and business development.

Mitch Fonseca leads the global datacenter product management and commercial services teams for Cyxtera, responsible for product pricing and positioning. With over 11 years in IT infrastructure, Fonseca has experience in product management, operations, sales, finance and business development.

Most recently, Fonseca served as Sr Director of Strategy and Operations at General Electric, where he helped develop GE’s long-term datacenter and cloud strategy and headed GE’s datacenter operation teams.

Prior to GE, he joined Digital Realty, through their acquisition of Telx. At Digital Realty, Fonseca served as Director of Global Product Management for Colocation and Services. There he managed Digital Realty’s retail colocation product within North American, Europe and Asia; driving increased profitability to a wholesale datacenter footprint.

Nabeel Mahmood is a Technologist, Futurist and a Keynote Speaker. His career is driven by one question – what’s next? He is passionate about the power of technology to deliver competitive and transformational change and the need to develop digital leadership that will create the enterprise of the future. He believes strongly in simplification, with a purpose. Nabeel brings 18 plus years of experience leading large-scale global technology organizations through seasons of explosive growth via M&A, global expansion, implementing new business models and technology innovation. His expertise includes leading organizations through transformation changes, connecting IT to the needs of the business, technology innovation, Big Data, Cloud, ERP, IoT, Mobility and Data Centers. He brings a unique blend of experiences spanning the entire breadth of technology from Grid to Chip. At, heart he’s a true technologist and futurist, he is a proven strategist, winsome communicator and leader with extraordinary vision and operational expertise within very large, complex organizations. Nabeel is a strategic CIO identifying opportunities that are being underpinned by emerging technologies. He serves on multiple boards and is an advisor to CIOs and CEO across a number of industries.

Dale Pickering has spent his whole life “chasing electrons.” As a Power Quality Electrical

Engineer, he has worked at numerous high-tech facilities such as NCR, AT&T, and ATMEL. He

has also assisted the Colorado Springs Utilities as a consultant, and now works for FedEx at their

Enterprise Data Center in Colorado Springs. He currently brings his expertise to the table in

providing a smooth, seamless electrical system for the ongoing 24x7 operation of

FedEx—worldwide!

Jon deRidder studied Organizational Management at Colorado Christian University, has served in various leadership positions over the past 20 years and has a deeply rooted passion to serve others. Jon’s aim is to perfect the “service approach” working to guide customers through the complex and elusive challenges facing data center environments. Jon brings experience from having worked with over 200 data center clients and a significant network of influencers. Jon is gifted at ensuring that the most important issues facing our customers are uncovered, discussed, well-understood and solved. Jon’s many industry-specific speaking engagements include AFCOM, AFEC, ASHRAE, BOMA, CAPRE, EPA and the US Green Building Council (USGBC).

Mr. Gibbs serves as SVP of Design and Construction for Prime. With over 10 years of industry experience and perspective, he leads Prime’s physical building development efforts globally. Jonathan’s design and construction portfolio consists of over $15B throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

Danny Horton has almost three decades of experience building data centers for organizations such as Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and the federal government. Danny is excited to leverage his knowledge of data centers on the owner side to help his new clients build success. He leads PCL Construction’s Data Center and Mission Critical Construction program by establishing processes and procedures for construction and working in live data centers.

In his role as a Solution Architect, he is helping clients with their Industrial IoT and Sustainability initiatives in the Commercial & Industrial and Data Center markets that allow to achieve greater resiliency, achieve sustainability objectives and create economic benefits. Prior, he supported the Consulting and Engineering community by advising on resource-optimized energy management solutions in the data center market. He offers nearly three decades of experience in the data center, broadcast, telecommunications, AV and IT industry. His papers have been published in peer-reviewed journals and he frequently speaks on national and international venues.

Baumann, joined Schneider Electric in early 2012. He is an active member of iMasons and the Green G working group (Next G). Until 2018, he served as Treasurer and President on the board of AFCOM Southern California, was chairman for The Global Society for Asset Management (G-SAM). Baumann recently completed a program at MIT in Smart Manufacturing and holds an electrical engineering degree from the Theodor-Litt-Schule in Giessen, Germany.

Tony Grayson is the General Manager of Compass Quantum and is known as a cloud and datacenter leader throughout the industry. He regularly speaks and writes on topics ranging from sustainability to energy to datacenters. Before joining Compass, Tony was an SVP at Oracle, responsible for their cloud physical infrastructure. Before Oracle, Mr. Grayson held senior positions with AWS and Facebook. Before embarking on his datacenter career, Tony served for 20 years in the United States Navy in multiple places, including Commanding Officer of USS PROVIDENCE (SSN-719). He is a winner of the prestigious VADM James Stockdale Award for inspirational leadership.

Jeff Moerdler is chair of the Haynes Boone Data Center and Digital Infrastructure Practice and a real estate partner in the New York office. He has more than 40 years’ experience in general commercial real estate law. Jeff’s real estate practice includes acquisitions, sales, development, leasing, and borrower’s side financing. Jeff also has a particular focus on real estate challenges facing communications, technology and energy companies, and represents property owners and telecom companies in telecom real estate matters, particularly in data center development, acquisitions, sales, leases, colocation agreements and service level agreements. His clients include both large national companies and smaller, local clients, and includes representation of landlords and tenants in all types of leases; counseling owners and developers in the acquisition, sale, joint venture, development, and renovation of property as well as sale-leaseback transactions; advising lenders and borrowers in commercial loans; and the representation of all parties in real estate litigation. He is actively involved in settling real estate, partnership, and inter-family disputes. He also represents many not-for-profit entities and is active in health care, senior living, and educational real estate.

During the past 35 years, Jeff has developed considerable experience in the intersection of real estate with communications, technology, and energy issues. He has extensive experience representing landlords, tenants, developers, and communications service providers in the leasing, purchase, sale, and financing of data centers, colocation facilities, radio and television broadcast antennas, distributed and in-building wireless systems, rooftop antennas, and fiber-optic transactions as well as the wiring of buildings for broadband communications access. Jeff has also negotiated thousands of data center leases, master services agreements, colocation agreements and service level agreements, rooftop and cellular antenna leases, inside wiring agreements, and antenna tower leases throughout the country – covering over 500 million square feet.

He has also devoted a considerable portion of his practice to power and energy issues related to real estate and other technology matters, including large solar and wind installations, battery storage facilities, and bulk power purchases.

Jeff is a frequent speaker on real estate, data center, and telecom topics around the country. He is Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and on the faculty of the Advanced Commercial Leasing Institute. He regularly speaks as a panelist at data center, digital infrastructure and real estate conference around the United States. In addition, he is regularly quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bisnow, Commercial Property News, Real Estate Weekly, and other publications. He co-authored the first treatise chapter on telecom real law for Powell on Real Property in 1999.

Jeff has previously served in numerous governmental positions, including as a Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a member of the New York State Banking Board, a member of the New York State Financial Control Board, a member of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee of the Appellate Division of the First Department of the New York State Supreme Court, Assistant to the First Deputy Mayor of the City of New York, and assistant to the Deputy Borough President of the Borough of Manhattan. From 1981 to 1982, Jeff served as a law clerk to the Honorable Charles L. Brieant, US District Judge, and later Chief Judge, for the Southern District of New York.

Jeff is also an emergency medical technician on his local volunteer ambulance and President of his local chapter, as well as having served for 8 years on the Board of Trustees of the umbrella organization which is the largest volunteer ambulance service in the United States.

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.