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.

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.

A risk and resilience professional with over 30 years’

experience of the design and management of strategic,

business friendly security, continuity and risk solutions in

public and private sectors. Experience ranges from: the

management of security and the protection of data within

the UK’s main business process outsourcer to the financial

and government sectors; to the protection of the largest

part of the UK’s critical national infrastructure.

Main achievements include:

 Advisor to UK Government on the creation of the

National Security Strategy and the National Information

Assurance Strategy.

 Chairman of the British Standards Institute’s committee

on Societal Security Management looking after risk

management, business continuity, asset management

and PCI standards at both the national and

international level. Tenure of this role included looking

after the fundamentals of the international standard on

business continuity ISO22301.

 Developed, implemented and operated enterprise wide

risk and compliance capabilities within a number of

organisations allowing them to: manage compliance

obligations; offer trustworthy, robust and cost effective

solutions; and significantly reduce financial and

reputation losses

 Incident commander for a number large scale incidents

including DDoS attacks and severe flooding incidents.

 Delivered comprehensive security solutions at three

Olympic Venues including Team USA’s High

Performance Training Centre and the China Central

Television’s UK operation. All three venues enjoyed a

security incident free Olympics despite hosting

Michelle Obama, the US Basketball team and visits by

several Heads of State.

 Identified the injury mechanism associated with

explosive blast and patented a material system that

now forms the basis of all modern bomb disposal

equipment.

In his role as president of Europe, Tesh is responsible for creating a European organization that is inclusive of strategy, site selection, sales, construction, design, operations, finance, HR and legal. Tesh will be instilling the fantastic CyrusOne culture into our European operations as well as helping facilitate the growth in that region. Since his hiring in September, 2012 the company’s revenues have more than tripled. Those gains were generated by a combination of rapid sales growth and the acquisitions of data center providers Sentinel and Cervalis as well as the data center assets of CME Group Inc.’s financial trading campus. Tesh led the three acquisitions, which totaled over $1 Billion.

Throughout his career Tesh has specialized in implementing growth strategies for internet infrastructure businesses. Prior to joining CyrusOne Tesh was chief marketing and business officer for Quality Technology Services (now QTS Data Centers), creating and executing the go-to-market strategy paving the way for that company’s evolution from a closely held, private equity-backed organization, to IPO.

Tesh was previously chief marketing and business officer for Telx, a colocation and interconnection provider. He joined Telx by way of acquisition, when Telx and Digital Realty Trust acquired the interconnection businesses and data center business, respectively, of NYC-Connect, a New York City based data center and interconnection provider founded by Tesh. Prior to starting NYC-Connect, he held management positions at AboveNet (acquired by Zayo), Sprint, and Metromedia Fiber Networks.

Tesh is a graduate of Syracuse University and has completed executive education programs at Columbia Business School and Stanford School of Business. He lives with his wife and three sons in Greenwich, Connecticut, and has been involved in charities dedicated to homelessness, autism awareness, and cancer research. Tesh has been a youth football coach for over ten years and having been a fan of the New England Patriots through interminable 1-15 and 2-14 seasons, he now thoroughly enjoys the team’s consistent success.

Chris has worked as a consultant in Resilience and Security

since retiring from military service in 2012. Initially working in

high-hazard industries, notably the UK’s nuclear sector, he

specialises in helping Board-level Executives to improve and

develop their leadership in a crisis, with a focus on cyber risk.

Chris also helps our clients develop their strategies and

frameworks for organisational and operational resilience

Since joining Sungard Availability Services in 2016, Chris has

worked with customers in finance, insurance, healthcare, not-for-

profit and automotive sectors. He is a fluent French speaker who

has a number of clients in Sweden, France, Belgium and

Luxembourg, in addition to clients in the UK.

Representative Consulting Engagements

 Crisis Management executive leadership development

− Design and delivery of Masterclasses in crisis management and

leadership for Boards

− Planning and execution of dynamic crisis exercises for

executive leadership and senior management teams

 Cyber Risk and Resilience Assessments

− High level review of governance, risk and security of the global

IT network in a major US FMCG corporation

− Executive cyber resilience and security capability development

including cyber exercises

 Business Continuity Management

− The full spectrum of Business Continuity consulting across a

range of sectors

− Programme and project management of complex Business

Continuity assignments in Healthcare, Not-for-Profit, Financial

Services, Insurance sectors

− Information communications technology readiness for business

continuity for a major UK transport company (public sector)

Jeffrey Tapley joined Digital Realty in August 2013 and is currently the Joint Managing Director (MD) EMEA and Senior Vice President (SVP) Portfolio Management Group. In his Joint MD role, Jeff is responsible for working with the global senior management team to deliver a strategy and results for the EMEA region in all facets of the business.

A major focus of his responsibility within the global portfolio is working with the sales team on multi-regional transactions, as well as negotiating global agreements with major customers. Jeff is also a voting member of Digital Realty’s Investment Committee.

Prior to joining Digital Realty, he spent 18 years within the private equity real estate group at Fidelity Investments, followed by two years with Long Wharf Real Estate Partners. Jeff was a MD of both firms and was a principal in acquiring and structuring joint ventures in all forms of commercial real estate for the company-sponsored value-add investment vehicles.

Jeff holds an MBA in Finance from Bentley University, a BA in Business and Economics from Saint Anselm College, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Jeff has three adult children and enjoys watching them starting their own careers. In his spare time,

Jeff enjoys rooting on his hometown Boston sports teams, The Red Sox, Celtics and Patriots.

Fabrizio is a member of the

Merchant Banking Division (MBD)

Real Estate Group. The team

focuses on investing in a range of asset-

backed opportunities, including sub-

performing and non-performing portfolios of

consumer, residential, and commercial real

estate loans; portfolios of real estate assets;

and hybrid, junior and structured equity

financing.

He is responsible for evaluating,

underwriting and executing new acquisitions.

Fabrizio joined Goldman Sachs as an

executive director in 2011 and was named

managing director in 2015.

Prior to joining the firm, Fabrizio worked

in the special situations unit at Deutsche

Bank. Before that, he worked on the principal

structured finance desk at Merrill Lynch.

Fabrizio serves on the supervisory board of

Robyg.

Fabrizio earned a bachelor's degree in

Economics and Finance from the Bocconi

University in Milan in 2003.

Arun Shenoy is responsible for developing the success of Serverfarm’s data center colocation and InCommand Services business globally.

He joined Serverfarm from Schneider Electric where he was Vice President of the IT and Data Center business in the UK & Ireland. Arun has previously worked at major companies including Intel, ABB, IBM and Romonet in general management, sales and marketing roles with over 20 years in software, services and technology markets.

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.

With nearly a decade in the industry, Amy spent the early part of her career delivering data centre builds for industry leading clients such as Dell, IBM, Ericsson and Vodafone. She then joined AECOM in early 2014 to drive mission critical engineering across EMEA and APAC. Her unique insight drove AECOM to become an industry thought leader and partner of choice for many global corporations and smaller niche data center operators. Amy has now joined NTT as Director in the Hyperscale team to continue NTT’s successful relationships and delivery for many of the household names in the Data Centre industry.

John provides strategic advice to TMT portfolios and specialised advice in

telecommunications strategy, network roll-out and estate management. As a skilled

international real estate manager, John has extensive experience in the development and

implementation of real estate solutions at both a local and international level.

Buddy Rizer serves as the Executive Director for economic development in Loudoun County, Virginia,

which was named the 2021 Economic Development Organization of the Year by the International

Economic Development Council. He leads the agency responsible for encouraging growth and

developing relationships with Loudoun’s business community in both the commercial and agricultural-

based business sectors. During his tenure, Rizer and his team have attracted more than $65 billion in

new commercial investment and more than 60 thousand new jobs. During this time, the growth in the

commercial based has helped lower the tax rate in Loudoun by more than 48 cents on the dollar, saving

residents thousands of dollars annually on their tax bill.

Mr. Rizer has been named a Tech Titan eight times by Washingtonian Magazine (2017 – 2024), one of

the 50 most influential Virginians six times by Virginia Business Magazine (2018 – 2023), a five-time

member of Virginia’s Power 500 (2020 – 2024), and three times named to the Washington Business

Journal’s Power 100 as one of the most influential businesspeople in Washington, DC (2020, 2022,

2023). In 2024, he was named as one of the 50 most influential people in Northern Virginia by Northern

Virginia Magazine.

Mr. Rizer is a Certified Economic Developer (CEcD), a certified Entrepreneurship Development

Professional (EDP), has a master’s in business administration/economics from Longwood University and

is a graduate of Virginia Tech's Local Government Management Graduate Program.

Pete leads Yondr’s global development schedule. He identifies new markets, ensures speed and scale is achievable, drives design innovation and business transformation across geographies, as well as overseeing client success.

Pete has worked at every stage of the data center product lifecycle, starting off as an electrical engineer and commissioning expert, driving projects across the finish line. Before Yondr he was at Google, heading up their Global Infrastructure Programme. Responsible for site selection, colocation acquisition, hyperscale strategy and energy, he built contracting, vendor and professional services supply chain to deliver 1000s of MW of project pipeline and concurrently designed and managed multiple large scale data center projects.

Pete isn’t one for jargon. His straight-talking, no nonsense communication style, mixed with his vast experience, gives him the ability to clearly direct our teams and products on some of the largest hyperscale projects in the world.

William specialises in Data Centre occupier representation for clients across the UK and mainland Europe. The team has been responsible for projects serving clients in various sectors including Technology, Finance and Media, providing services including site sourcing, valuation, colocation sourcing and investment in different local markets within the EMEA region. Having experience in different markets in what is generally known as an opaque sector has been a differentiator for the Colliers team.

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.