As CEO and Managing Partner in fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547), Todd is involved with running the operations of the business as well as business development and firm strategy. Mr. Raymond has a reputation of successfully building enterprise value, taking companies from start up to executing an exit strategy. Prior to joining 1547, Mr. Raymond served as CEO, President, COO, General Counsel, Controller and a Director of The Telx Group, Inc. during which time he guided the company through multiple financings, acquisitions, SEC registration and two sales to private equity firms. Prior to joining Telx, Mr. Raymond was a founder of Stratus Services Group, Inc., an engineering and staffing services company, and served as its General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. During his tenure, he guided Stratus through multiple private capital raises, the acquisition of over a dozen businesses, and in April 2000, the Initial Public Offering of the company’s stock on NASDAQ. Todd holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Fairfield University, a Juris Doctor (JD) from Albany Law School of Union University and is completing a Master of Laws (LLM) in Finance Law from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. He is a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO), the Wine & Food Society of New York and the American Corporate Counsel Association as well as multiple bar and professional organizations.

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.

An accomplished, forward-thinking, and goal-oriented data center executive, Michael has over 20 years of expertise leading various high-impacting data center projects and initiatives across industry leaders such as Google and Yahoo.

As Global Head of Design & Delivery, Michael is responsible for the development and construction of cutting-edge data center campuses, ensuring alignment of performance with Aligned’s supply chain methodology as well as best-in-class design, efficiency, and operational objectives. He also leads large cross-functional teams to ensure the scope, quality, schedule and costs of each project are met as contracted, with a focus on enabling customers to achieve speed-to-market and scale with minimal exposure to risk.

Prior to Aligned, Michael served as Head of Global Data Center Operations at Google, where he directed day-to-day operations across all of the company’s state-of-the-art data center campuses, as well as edge sites and Points of Presence (PoPs). Before Google, Michael was the Vice President, Global Data Center Construction and Operations at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for managing and supervising data center engineering and delivery teams in the execution of global data center strategies, including the development and construction of cutting-edge data centers. Michael’s earlier career encompassed serving as Operations Manager, Data Center Division at CEI, Group President – NW Region at SASCO, and Group / Project Executive at Cochran, Inc.

Tony Rossabi is CEO of Recovery Point Group Holding Company, where he focuses on the growth of Recovery Point Systems, a leader in DRaaS, and other companies within the portfolio. A talented and seasoned executive, Rossabi brings over twenty years of experience in technology, communications, data center infrastructure sales, marketing, operations, and strategic planning. Prior positions include Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer of TierPoint, Managing Director for Digital Realty Trust’s colocation and connectivity business unit (Telx), and Senior Vice President of Global Carrier Solutions at TATA Communications.

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.

Eli D. Scher is the founder of New Continuum Holdings Corporation, and serves as its Chairman and CEO. Mr. Scher is also the co-founder of United Internet Exchange, LLC and serves as its CEO. He is an entrepreneur with a broad array of investing and operating experience.

Prior to New Continuum, he worked as an analyst at prominent New York hedge funds where he analyzed corporate securities. Previously, Mr. Scher co-founded and served as CEO of GSME Capital Partners, a private, early stage investment partnership, and GSME Acquisition Partners I, a publicly traded acquisition vehicle.

Additionally, he was Chief Financial Officer and director of MCG Group a Shanghai-based LED-advertising company, and was the co-founder, President and CFO of Fundamental Films.

He currently serves as on the board of directors of HMMI, a specialized manufacturer of extremely large and complex steel components.

Eli serves as the Chairman of the Board for the Open-IX Association and previously served as the Chairman of the Data Center Committee.

Mr. Scher received his AB from Princeton University.

David Carlson leads the business development efforts and works with client teams across the organization to understand their needs and stand up new services to help clients operate and run their IT. David has more than 20 years of experience working with clients and promoting emerging solutions for IT and managed hosting providers across the infrastructure, telecommunications, and security segments. Prior to Forsythe, Carlson worked in various leadership positions across sales, marketing, and strategy at NaviSite (a Time Warner Cable company), Siemens Enterprise Communications, Avaya, and VPNet Technologies. Over the past five years, he has been working closely with enterprise clients to successfully transition to the “as-a-service” model and better aligning information technology with business objectives.

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.

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.

Andy Cvengros is a Managing Director with JLL and is member of the firm’s Data Center Services Practice. Focusing exclusively in mission critical tenant / user representation and project management, Andy assists his clients in strategic planning, acquisition and disposition of heavy infrastructure and data center assets, financial analysis, geographic risk planning, lease analysis and negotiations, market valuations and technology consulting services. He has worked with many multi-national F500 organizations to help define and implement their data center sourcing and site selection strategy globally. Prior to joining JLL, Andy worked within Hewlett Packard’s Data Center Consulting group (formerly EYP), assisting clients in aligning their IT, Facility and Business requirements. He draws on his experience in working with IT to match virtualization, cloud computing and disaster recovery strategies to data center facility builds and capacity planning. By understanding the dynamic drivers of a data center, he is able to provide valuable insight to all parties.

Teddy Miller joined 451 Research in July 2016. As an Associate

Analyst for the Multi-Tenant Datacenters team, Teddy focuses on

markets in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly Hong Kong, mainland

China, Taiwan and India. He also covers the New York/New Jersey

and Chicago metro areas. Teddy holds a BA in History and Chinese

Literature from Yale University.

There is a certain pride that Bernie takes in being trusted by clients from around the world to work alongside them and guide them on projects that they deem as critical to their businesses and operations. He strives to include all stakeholders and team members in the communication process, which he knows is essential to the success of each project. As a firm leader and project manager in HKS’ Mission Critical practice with over 10 million sq. ft. of data center space built, Bernie works across all market sectors and collaborates with HKS teams on technology-intensive projects around the world. His focus is on delivering successful projects while building and maintaining client relationships. With over 30 years of experience, he is recognized for his strengths in addressing technical issues, engineering coordination and construction practices.

Paul is responsible for leading the firm’s consulting practice in the areas of data center development, total cost of ownership (TCO), mergers and acquisitions (infrastructure), and technology migration services. Over his career, Paul has consulted within the data center sector in Europe, Pacific Rim, North America, and South America. Additionally, he is an internationally renowned speaker and has authored numerous articles published in industry publications.

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.

Kevin J. Goodman, who has more than 30 years’ experience in the technology and construction industries, leads business development, sales and marketing at BlueBridge Networks in Cleveland, a data center, cloud computing and cybersecurity services firm. Mr. Goodman plays an active role in assisting companies and organizations in the SMB and enterprise market to comply with current legislation and best practices around Data Center, Cloud Computing and Business Continuity and Cyber Security Services Including HIPAA. Mr. Goodman actively encourages corporate involvement in the disaster recovery, workforce development, business continuity and security areas. He is a sought out local and national speaker on various topics and author of numerous articles. . He attended the JD/MPA program at John Marshall Law School and College of Maxine Levin Goodman College of Urban Studies at Cleveland State. Additionally, He holds a BA from Cleveland State in Political Science with a specialization in Political Communication. Goodman is a member of the boards of Regional Information Technology Engagement (RITE), Cleveland/Cuyahoga County Workforce Investment Board and recent past member of the United Way of Greater Cleveland campaign committee and Northern Ohio Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including 2017 Smart Business Best of Tech, 2017 OHTEc Best IT Services Company, 2017 SME of Cleveland DMSA Award winner, 2015 Inside Business NEO Success Award; CRN Magazine Managed Service Provider 500 list (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017); CRN Next-Gen 250; CRN 2016 Tech Elite Solutions Provider; 2016 Ohio Cancer Research Star Award; 2016 CRN Top Midmarket IT Vendor Executive; Inside Business NEO Success Award (2012, 2015); 2013-2015 Cool Tech 25 Cleveland Inside Business magazine, among others. He also was named to the Smart Business-Corporate College Smart 50 Class of 2014, 2015 and 2017

Roman Kowalczyszyn is responsible for managing COLO-D’s relationship with its major clients. Roman is the perfect interface for COLO-D’s clients as he has more than 25 years of experience in the management and operation of data centers for major corporations in Canada and has developed a unique expertise in understanding client expectations. Previously, he spent 10 years as the National Data Center Manager for Telus. He has also worked with many companies to convert their business strategy into technological requirements for state-of-the-art data centers located in cities across Canada. Roman graduated in electrical engineering from Queen’s University. He is a member of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers and AFCOM, an organization dedicated to continuous learning and exchange between data center managers and other professionals involved with data centers.