James (Jim) Buie, President and Chief Executive Officer, has been a driving force in accelerating Involta’s growth trajectory throughout the country. Jim has built a cohesive operations, sales, and marketing culture that models his motivation and enthusiasm for the business. Jim joined Involta in 2016 as Chief Financial Officer, and steadily took on more responsibility to help the company grow profitably while expanding nationally.

Jim served as President from 2020-2022 and was instrumental in the acquisition of the company by global investment firm, Carlyle. He’s also transformed the company’s hybrid cloud, security and strategic consulting offerings through the strategic acquisitions and partnerships.

From his start at Involta, Buie has been very active in Involta Cares, the company’s philanthropic platform that extends resources across the communities Involta serves.

Before joining Involta, Jim held executive roles at ViaWest, Comcast and AT&T. During his tenure, ViaWest became one of the largest privately held data center infrastructure, cloud and managed IT providers in North America. Jim serves on the boards of the Idaho Tech Council and the Sun Corridor, the economic development leader in southern Arizona. He also stays active in numerous other industry and regional technology organizations focused on developing the technology workforce, deepening tech community relationships, and driving public policy to protect innovation. Jim graduated from Florida State University and earned a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Colorado.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vello is the president of Ehvert Mission Critical, a vertically integrated multi-disciplinary engineering and

construction firm specializing in the design, construction, and support of critical facilities with offices in

the United States, Canada and Europe.

Vello has been involved in the design, construction and operation of critical facilities for over forty years

and has pioneered the use of digital technologies and manufacturing processes for critical facility design,

construction and operation.

Ehvert uses a manufacturing approach to construction and is a global leader in the use of BIM, Virtual

Design, Digital Construction, and Automation System Programming for critical facilities.

Vello Ehvert is a registered professional engineer in the United States and Canada, a LEED Accredited

Professional, Uptime Accredited Tier Designer and a Broker of Record with Adelaide Realty Inc. He also

holds an RBQ certification for construction in the Province of Quebec.

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!

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.

Stephanie Henley is a Corporate Economic Development Manager with Xcel

Energy, a Fortune 200 investor-owned utility. In her role, Stephanie supports key

customer expansions and helps attract new customers to Xcel’s service territory

in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. She also helps manage Xcel’s economic

development offerings and promotes energy efficiency and renewable energy

programs to businesses from target industry clusters. Prior to joining Xcel,

Stephanie worked for the Colorado Governor’s Office of Economic Development

& International Trade (OEDIT). While at OEDIT, she marketed Colorado to

foreign direct investors, helped Colorado companies export to international

markets and supported State-led economic development initiatives. Stephanie

has a Master’s Degree in International Development from the University of Denver and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the University of Oregon. She is an outdoor enthusiast, marathoner and mother.

Dave has been in the utility industry for over 10 years helping support temporary, or long-term power generation requirements to industry, either behind or in front of the meter, using large reciprocating engines.

Dave has worked with, industry, utilities, ISO’s and RTO’s to support capacity requirements, emergency response challenges and help improve planned work requirements.

Dave joined the VoltaGrid in 2022 where VoltaGrid been supporting large industry by electrifying their processes when they have been completely stranded or have limited access to their utility.

By supporting their customers they have reduced emissions by over 38%.

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.

Russ Dailey is the Global Business Development Manager of Data Centers for Distech Controls, a subsidiary of Acuity Brands Inc. Russ's role is to grow the Data Center vertical within the Distech Controls brand and the Atrius ESG software. He joins Distech with more than 15 years of experience in the data center space in various roles, including owning multiple startups in the data center industry. After starting in Fintech, he moved into the data center arena, where he purchased a Micro Data Center company and its patents. Russ is excited to build the Data Center business in a company connecting people with advanced, open, scalable BMS and HVAC solutions.

As a Co-founder in 1992, and currently the Director of Environmental Impact at MIRATECH Corporation, Jim provides leadership, strategy and product design expertise for their Power Generation division. Jim rejoined Miratech Corporation in 2019 heading up the ENP Concepts consulting arm after management positions at Rypos Corporation and leading the environmental department at PowerSecure’s microgrid group. In charge of tracking all Federal, State and Local emissions regulations as they pertain to backup generators located at Datacenters in North America and Europe, he ensures MIRATECH’s products and services offer ongoing compliance. Mr. McDonald has testified before the Federal EPA numerous times and is considered a valuable stakeholder on several rulemaking teams at the State Level. For 15 years he has been an instructor for the Advanced School of the Electrical Generating Systems Association on the subject of Emissions from Diesel engines and has authored the textbook chapter on the same. He has a Patent Pending on the use of wire mesh DPF substrates in the pre-heating of SCR catalyst blocks. As the originator of the ‘GVU’ measurement parameter, Jim performs analyses to show the relative comparison on Ultraclean diesel generators versus grid supplied power. As such he advocates for the environmentally justifiable use of stationary generators until emerging renewable technologies are proven and cost effective. Jim holds a B.S in mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware.

With over a decade of experience in the data center industry, Kristy brings a comprehensive understanding of both the buying and selling aspects of the business. Her expertise spans a diverse range of focus areas, including infrastructure development, customer solutions, and business strategy. Kristy has been instrumental in developing and optimizing data center infrastructure at both enterprise and Hyperscale levels, ensuring the creation of robust, scalable solutions that adapt to the evolving needs of businesses. Her proficiency also includes designing and implementing global strategies that align with organizational objectives and market trends. Prior to joining Oracle, Kristy held a Sr. Principal Program Manager role (Infrastructure Strategy & Acquisition) at Microsoft.

Kristy has served on the Board of Directors for several prominent national trade organizations, including AFCOM and 7x24 Exchange. She is passionate about leveraging her knowledge and network to address complex industry challenges and drive success within the data center sector. She is currently an active member of Denver’s WIMCO chapter.

Tom leads EdgeCore’s strategy, teams, and activities around client leasing and marketing initiatives focused on bespoke client-centric growth solutions for top hyperscale and technology companies globally.

Tom brings to EdgeCore 19 years of experience in wholesale data centers, enabling him with valuable insight into client needs for tailored data center developments and tailored commercial models designed to enable EdgeCore clients to ensure scalability, reduce cost, and maximize flexibility. Supporting these objectives, Tom leverages his experience in site selection, acquisition, development, and leasing supporting hyperscale CSPs and information-intensive businesses, including completion of transactions totaling over 600+ MW and valued at over $1.8B. Prior to joining EdgeCore, Tom worked for Amazon Web Services, where he was accountable for strategy and execution for new and existing regions across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas, along with diligence and strategy for additional regions under evaluation. At AWS, Tom worked in a multi-stakeholder environment executing on accountabilities to scale data center infrastructure planned to exceed $1B in construction investment. Prior to Amazon, Tom was co-practice leader of Cassidy Turley’s (now Cushman & Wakefield’s) Data Center Advisory Practice, focused on end-user representation and capital markets transactions. Tom previously worked with many members of the EdgeCore team at CoreSite Realty Corporation as regional VP of Sales.

Tom holds a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard College, with honors.

Renee brings a people-first approach to navigating the fast-moving, high-stakes world of data centers and communications. With experience in both startup and enterprise environments, she’s known for building strong partnerships across finance, operations, and procurement to align priorities, strengthen resilience, and deliver results that last. Energized by the possibilities of emerging AI, Renee is passionate about using technology to bring clarity and capability to the growing complexity of data centers.

Saurabh Ladha is the Founder and CEO of Doxel, which provides automated progress tracking powered by AI. Inspired after seeing how construction delays impact lives and livelihoods, Saurabh brought his passion for cyber-physical systems to construction to help project teams stay on track in the face of constant change.

Doxel powers construction on the world’s largest oil and gas facilities, mega data centers, hospitals, and other complex construction.

Saurabh has been recognized by:

Forbes 30 Under 30, 2018

Goldman Sachs Top 100 Builders + Innovators Award, 2019

Saurabh gives back to his alma mater Stanford as an entrepreneurship guest lecturer.

Rachel Brrett serves as President of Swanson Rink. With over 20 years of experience, Rachel leads a diverse team of engineers, project managers and support staff. Swanson Rink is a leading engineering and consulting firm in the mission critical and aviation industries. The firm specializes in mechanical and electrical engineering including specialists in baggage handling, fueling, boarding bridges, CFD modeling and telecom (ICT) and security. The firm also has a dedicated Project Management team to lead multi-discipline diverse projects.