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.

David Dunn is COO of H5 Data Centers. Mr. Dunn has nearly 15 years of experience managing significant growth and delivering outsized returns on investment in the Internet infrastructure space. Mr. Dunn most recently served as vice president at the Zayo Group where he was responsible for managing the wavelength and mobile infrastructure business units. Prior to Zayo, Mr. Dunn was senior vice president at CoreSite where he held leadership roles in mergers & acquisitions, leasing, marketing and strategy. Before joining CoreSite, Mr. Dunn held roles at several private equity firms including The Carlyle Group and J.E. Robert Companies. Mr. Dunn earned a B.S. in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

As President and Chief Operating Officer for Flexential, Ryan leads the company's internal day-to-day operations across all company functions, ensures the growth of the technology platform, and drives strategic execution.

Since joining Flexential in 2020, Ryan has played a key role in scaling the company’s national platform of 40+ data centers and a 100Gbps private network backbone. His leadership has helped advance the FlexAnywhere® Platform—a unified infrastructure solution supporting colocation, interconnection, cloud, and managed services—to meet growing enterprise demand for secure, high-density deployments.

With more than 25 years of experience in global infrastructure operations, Ryan has held leadership roles at UUNET, SAVVIS, XO Communications, Digital Realty, and Equinix. Before Flexential, he served as SVP of Global Solutions Enablement at Equinix, where he worked across network, platform, and sales functions to support customer and business growth worldwide.

Ryan holds a bachelor’s degree in international business from the University of Phoenix.

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.

With over 30 years of IT and data center, infrastructure and IT efficiency and optimization expertise, Greg has a proven track record of pushing the technology innovation envelope with the leading Thermal, Power, Monitoring and DCIM Solutions with Cloud Providers, Colocation Operators, End-Users and the Channel.

As an evangelist for new technology, rapid change and continuous improvement, Greg has demonstrated a unique ability to coordinate disparate teams and bridge IT, Facilities and partner/vendor gaps while they work to solve the daily questions of Cloud, Colo, On-Prem, DR, EDG/IoT and whatever is next? All while ensuring reliability, resiliency, availability, optimal service and value to the business.

Greg is Director of National Accounts and resides in Laguna Hills with his family!

For over 20 years, Christian Kergard has been leading the change in the Information Technology

infrastructure industry. From mainframes to colocation converged, hyper-converged, and cloud,

Christian brings his wealth of data center knowledge and knowhow to build the next level of IT

infrastructure in edge computing.

Before joining EdgeMicro, Christian was the Data Center Manager at Hosting. It was there he built out

the data center from a few racks to what is now a multimillion-dollar full-scale data center operating in

multiple locations throughout the US.

Christian takes pride in working with customers and vendors, ensuring the smart data centers he designs

are functioning and built to the highest standards and efficiencies. His experience in data center design,

management, and leadership stems from prior positions as a structured cabling project manager,

operations technician, and systems engineer.

David C. Meadows II has worked in data center cooling since 1999.  He is currently the Director of Technology with STULZ USA, a manufacturer of precision air conditioning, humidification, and dehumidification products specifically designed for the data center.  Previously David has served as both the Design Engineering Manager and the Applications Engineering Manager at Stulz.  David holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.  David is also a graduate of the United States Navy Nuclear Power School.

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!

Bhu is in charge of architecting Hybrid IT Solutions for

ViaWest’s strategic customers and prospects. Bhu has been

with Flexential for seven years and has over 19 years of

experience in IT infrastructure technology. He is responsible

for designing hundreds of unique and successful customer

implementations of cloud, Disaster Recovery, colocation,

customized managed infrastructures, custom networks, and

storage environments that have allowed Flexential customers to enjoy high

performance, highly available and efficient solutions. Prior to Flexential, Bhu was an

IT Manager at Zoll and Watermark Financial Partners. He has a Master’s of Science in

Business Administration and Computer Information Systems.

Tyler Gibbs currently serves in a business development role for Black Hills Energy. He has been in his current role for three years and has been with Black Hills Energy for over five years. Tyler is primarily focused on working with mission critical facilities in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He spends the majority of his time working with current and prospective data centers (hyperscale and enterprise), colocation providers, and cryptocurrency miners. Tyler served as a board member for Meals on Wheels of Cheyenne for four years and recently completed his final year as board president. He has a B.S. in microbiology with a minor in chemistry and has an MBA in energy management from the University of Wyoming.

Jack Kolar is the Vice President of Mission Critical Business at TAS; where he has held several leadership roles since 2001. He has collaborated with clientele to develop several standard model series of prefabricated data center support equipment; including electrical, mechanical, and complete data hall solutions. He has delivered chilling for data halls sufficient for over one gigawatt over power consumed, and has served clients throughout North America as well as the EMEA region.

In addition to developing modular solutions, he has contributed innovation advancements in liquid cooling for data, via the Two-phase Immersion method. Jack studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Missouri - Rolla. He earned the PMP certification from PMI in 2012, and he was issued the eighth HVAC contracting license issued by the State of Texas. He served as president of the Houston chapter of ASHRAE in 1994-1995.

He holds the Uptime Institute’s Accredited Operations Specialist – Expert certification.

As a Principal at Page and Director of the Science and Technology sector, John has managed the design of over 30 data centers. Serving as Project Director for Mission Critical projects, John’s projects have accounted for more than $5 billion in construction throughout the United States and internationally. He is an expert in the design of mission critical facilities, secure compartmentalized information facilities (SCIFs), EMP shielding and the latest in data center cooling technologies including liquid immersion cooling. He is a founding board member of the 7X24 Exchange Central Texas Chapter, which supports the growing network of mission critical professionals and facilities in the Central Texas region.

A Colorado Native with 20 years of experience in data center product and service sales with leadership roles and managing commercial support for Internet Giants, Cloud and Colocation Service Providers, and Enterprise Data Centers. Experienced in supporting project operations and execution, including process and procedure development for Level 0 to Level 5 Commissioned Data Centers. Acquired certification of Qualified Commissioning Process Provider from the University of Wisconsin, certificate in Construction Management from Red Rocks Community College, and currently in pursuit of his Master of Business Administration from Colorado State University. Ryan is currently on the Executive Board for the local 7x24 Rocky Mountain Chapter, and active with his 2 children in Scouts BSA Americas. Ryan has an extensive background in Commercial Service and Sales at Schneider Electric with over 3 years in the Strategic Accounts Organization.