Data Center Investment Conference & Expo, West

John Sheputis

President - Infomart Data Centers

John has a proven track record of building successful IT infrastructure firms. Prior to Infomart Data Centers (formerly Fortune Data Centers), John has founded and managed several Silicon Valley ventures, most of which specialized in large-scale infrastructure management and hosting of global applications. From 1999 through 2003, he was COO and Co-Founder of Totality (now a unit of Verizon Business), which helped launch and manage over 100 Internet applications for some of the nation’s most trusted and well respected firms. John also held senior management positions at Solidcore (sold to MacAfee [MFE] in 2009), BeVocal (Sold to Nuance [NUAN] in 2007), Enron, Gemini Consulting, and Accenture. John has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School.

Scott Noteboom

CEO - LitBit

Scott Noteboom is the ceo.founder of Litbit, a new company focused on enabling software defined deep infrastructure. Prior to Litbit, Noteboom led Apple’s global infrastructure team, with responsibilities including strategy, site selection, design and development. Under his leadership, Apple launched several of the worlds most efficient renewable energy data center campuses. Previously, Scott held position as Vice President of Data Center Engineering & Operations at Yahoo!, where he led all aspects of the company’s global data center portfolio. Scott’s background also includes leading global data center operations at AboveNet. Early in his career, he founded an early regional Internet service provider, as well as one of the first integrated voice/data companies.

Michael Foust

Chairman, DataBank Ltd. & Vantage Data Centers - Digital Bridge Holdings, LLC

Michael Foust has over 30 years of experience in data center development and operations and institutional real estate investments including development and portfolio management. Since May 2014, Michael has served as the senior advisor for the data center industry for Digital Bridge Holdings, LLC of Boca Raton, FL and New York, NY. Digital Bridge is the lead investor in DataBank, Ltd. Michael retired from Digital Reality Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR) San Francisco, CA in 2014 where he led the company's IPO and served as Chief Executive Office and as a Director from 2004 to 2014, growing the company to an enterprise value of approximately $15 billion. The company was the first public data center REIT and developed into one of the largest owners and operators of data centers in the world with investments and operations in North America, Europe, and AsiaPac. Michael also was a founder of the private equity investor GI Partners in Menlo Park, CA where he served as a Managing Director from February 2001 to the DLR IPO in 2004. He was responsible for real estate investments at GI Partners, with a strong focus on technology related assets including data centers and telecom facilities. The property portfolio was taken public as Digital Realty Trust (NYSE: DLR) in 2004. Prior to the formation of GI Partners, Michael served as a Senior Director at CB Richard Ellis Investors in Los Angeles from 1999 to 2001. From 1995 to 1999, he was a Senior Vice President at CB Richard Ellis, where he managed regional asset services operations. From 1985 to 1995, Michael served in senior portfolio management and investment positions at Trammell Crow Company and Karsten Realty Advisors in Los Angeles and at UBS Asset Management in New York where he managed property investments for sovereign wealth and institutional investors. Prior to his real estate career, from 1979 to 1985, Michael participated in the origination of two related, international telecommunications companies, Consortium Communications International and Progressive Systems Inc. in New York and London. Michael received his MBA from Harvard Business School, and his Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude from Harvard University. For more information on DataBank, please visit www.databank.com.

Sureel Choksi

President & CEO - Vantage Data Centers

Serving as President and Chief Executive Officer, Sureel has over 19 years of experience as an executive in the Internet infrastructure industry. He is also a member of Vantage’s board of directors. Sureel was previously an Operating Executive at Silver Lake Partners, and prior to that Chief Executive Officer of Elevation Data Centers, a private-equity backed roll-up vehicle. Sureel previously held several executive roles with Level 3 Communications, including Chief Marketing Officer, President of Wholesale Markets, Executive Vice President of Services, Chief Financial Officer, Group Vice President of Corporate Development and Treasurer. Before Level 3, Sureel worked in venture capital at TeleSoft Partners and investment banking at Gleacher & Company. Sureel received a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School with concentrations in Finance, Accounting and Entrepreneurial Management, and a B.A.S. from the School of Engineering and Applied Science, both from the University of Pennsylvania.

David Dunn

COO - H5 Data Centers

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.

Ileana Aquino-Otero

Global Critical Infrastructure Engineer - ​​LinkedIn

Ken Parent

CEO - CentralColo

Ken Parent brings 30 years of executive leadership experience to CentralColo including significant successes rapidly developing and scaling highly respected companies.​ Prior to CentralColo, Mr. Parent founded and served as CEO at ByteGrid, a national platform of Tier 3+ data centers in the U.S. During his tenure at ByteGrid, he led a management team acquiring 5 datacenters, with over 800,000 SF of mission critical space and 500 customers.​ Mr. Parent also led the successful and strategic acquisitions of Annapolis-based Sidus BioData, a leading provider of compliant hosting solutions for FDA and HIPAA-HITECH regulated companies, and NetRiver, a Seattle-based managed services provider, into the ByteGrid portfolio to diversify the business.​ ​Before Mr. Parent joined ByteGrid, he was the COO of The Mills Corporation, a NYSE listed publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust that acquired, developed, leased and operated large scale commercial real estate properties with total assets valued at nearly $8 billion.​ Prior to joining the Mills Corporation, Mr. Parent held various leadership positions with Price Waterhouse and Kenneth Leventhal.

​J. Todd Raymond

CEO & Managing ​Partner - fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty​ (1547)​

​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.

Matthew Mescall

VP, Technical Operations - CoreSite

Matt Mescall is the Vice President of Technical Operations for CoreSite. Matt has 18 years of facility management, engineering, and data center experience leading data center facility management and consulting teams in enterprise and colocation companies.  Matt brings a consultative approach from his deep knowledge across all aspects of data center management to provide holistic solutions to engineering, operations, and deployment challenges. Matt has worked with companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and other enterprise customers. Matt has been with CoreSite for two years solving customers’ technical challenges, managing deployments, and working cross functionally with engineering and operations to support CoreSite’s customers across our datacenter portfolio in 8 markets across the U.S.

Mark Thiele

Chief Strategy & Chief Information Officer - Apcera

Mark Thiele’s successful career in IT spans 25 years and has focused on both operating roles and on driving cloud adoption across enterprises of all sizes. Mark has deep industry experience and extensive knowledge of the requirements of policy-driven cloud computing and drives cross-functional strategic initiatives as Chief Strategy Officer for Apcera. Prior to joining Apcera, Mark was the executive vice president of ecosystem development at Switch SUPERNAP, builders of the world’s highest-rated data centers. He is also the president and founder of Data Center Pulse, an organization created to promote best practices in the data center industry. Mark has held executive roles at HP, Gilead, VMware and Brocade and is a member of nonprofit groups including The Green Grid and Infrastructure 2.0, where he advocates for data center and cloud industry evolution. A globally recognized speaker at leading industry events on a wide range of topics including cloud, IoT, data center, DevOps, and IT leadership, Mark is a regular content contributor to InformationWeek, GigaOm, Data Center Knowledge and other publications. Mark also serves on the technical advisory board of several startups.

Ryan Barbera

CEO - Data Canopy

Ryan Barbera is a Senior Executive with nearly two decades of experience in his roles across Information Technology firms where he specializes in the direction of Business Development and Strategy. A decorated executive, Ryan currently serves as the CEO of Maximized Technology Solutions and Managing Partner of Intelishift Technologies. Formerly President and COO of Unleashed Technologies in Columbia, MD - a 2013 and 2014 Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company award recipient. He has also spent the past five years (and counting) with Intelishift Technologies where Ryan serves as a Managing Partner - specializing in data center solutions, colocation, cloud computing, and hosting since 2011. Baltimore’s SmartCEO recognized Ryan’s work at Unleashed Technologies with an Executive Management Award and Bisnow included him in their Top Thirty Under Forty for his work as a Partner at Intelishift Technologies and Unleashed Technologies - both awarded in 2013. Ryan has years of hands-on experience crafting, fine-tuning, and managing sales staffs and his current work at Unleashed Technologies has him presiding over Maryland’s leading web development and hosting solutions firm. He has successfully led the expansion of Unleashed Technologies’ business into new regions and geographies and Ryan has developed several key strategic marketing initiatives and campaigns to cement his reputation as an innovator and expert in advanced technology areas; he is a recognized thought leader on these subjects.

Ben Coughlin

Chairman & Co - Founder - Colovore

Ben has a long history as a communications-focused private equity investor, providing advisory services to and serving on the Boards of Directors of numerous growing technology companies. Prior to co-founding Colovore, Ben was a Partner at Spectrum Equity Investors, a leading private investment firm with $5 billion in capital and specializing in communications, digital media, and technology-enabled businesses. Over his 13 years at Spectrum, Ben was involved with investments totaling nearly $3 billion in equity and debt capital.

​John Kolar

VP, Mission Critical Solutions - Kyoto Cooling

John Kolar is Vice President of Mission Critical Solutions for Data Cooling Technologies LLC., as well as a Senior Member of Data Cooling Technologies Applications Design Leadership Team. John has been instrumental in developing and advancing best practice design for development of products for strategic supply of Mission Critical air handlers across geographies and climatic conditions to the REIT and Large Colocation markets, driving modularity, net cost reduction and speed of delivery with solutions tuned to client needs. John obtained his Bachelor of Science Engineering degree from Ohio State University. John draws on 20 years of management level client and engineering interface and large project experience, including extensive involvement in all aspects of major building systems projects, blending best practice MEP design, Central Plant, Process Cooling, BioHazard Containment, CBR System Design, Laboratory and Clean room system design including class 1000, 100 and 10 experience. This multidisciplinary knowledge informs a Mission Critical Focus on Reliability, First Cost, Modularity and Lifetime Cost. He began his career in 1994, and has been instrumental in Data Cooling Technologies growth in several high tech air handling and process areas. John provides technical thought leadership within the International mission critical market. He is a regular presenter at technical conferences Together with other members of the Data Cooling Technologies Mission Critical Group John is growing the firm’s national and international presence to bring innovative, high performance solutions to clients globally.

Jeff Moerdler

Member - Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC

Jeff is the head of the Real Estate and Communications practices in New York. With experience including almost 30 years as a general commercial real estate attorney, he has worked with many large national companies — particularly in the high-tech, telecommunications, financial services, health care, supermarket, and oil and gas sectors — as well as numerous smaller local clients. His real estate practice is both national and local and includes representation of landlords and tenants in all types of leases; counseling owners and developers in the acquisition, sale, development, and renovation of property; advising lenders and borrowers in commercial loans; and the representation of all parties in real estate litigation. During the past 30 years, he has developed a unique specialty practice in the intersection of real estate with technology, communications, and energy issues. He has extensive experience representing landlords, tenants, and communications service providers in the leasing, purchase, sale, and financing of data centers and switch facilities, colocation facilities, radio and television broadcast antennas, distributed and in-building antenna systems, rooftop antennas, and fiber-optic transactions as well as the wiring of buildings for broadband communications access. Jeff has also negotiated thousands of rooftop and cellular antenna leases, inside wiring agreements, antenna tower leases, and data center, colocation and switch facility 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 and bulk power purchases. Jeff is also a member of the firm's Sports Law Practice. Jeff counsels developers, regional centers, senior lenders, and institutions on the strategic use of EB-5 capital in large-scale real estate transactions. Jeff has served as counsel to several EB-5 issuers and regional centers, with a specific focus on the real estate law aspects of transactions. Jeff also advises clients in the EB-5 space on all aspects of deploying capital into projects and has experience as well in negotiating intercreditor agreements on behalf of senior lenders and EB-5 regional centers. A frequent speaker on real estate topics, Jeff has also written a monthly column called Leasing on the Level, covering leasing topics in Real Estate Weekly. He is a member of the board of advisors and regular contributor to Commercial Lease Law Insider, Commercial Tenant’s Lease Insider, and Communications Environmental and Land Use Law Report. In addition, he frequently contributes to Mortgage and Real Estate Executives Report and is regularly quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Commercial Property News, Real Estate Weekly, and other publications. In the past, he has served in numerous governmental positions, including as 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, he 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 coordinator of his local chapter.

Bruce Myatt

President - Critical Facilities Solutions, Inc.

Bruce Myatt is best known as Founder of Silicon Valley’s “Critical Facilities Round Table” and as Executive Editor of Mission Critical Magazine, where he is also a Columnist and member of the Board of Advisors. He has spoken at over 50 major conferences including 7x24 National, Data Center Dynamics and Uptime Institute. He is a recognized “out-of- the-box” thought leader and award winning data center conceptual designer with experience in business and project development, and the planning, design and construction of many critical facilities. Bruce’s work has been recognized as Finalist in “Data Center Dynamics” 2013 NAM Awards for “Design Concepts and Forward Thinking” for TDC’s Off-Grid Computing Project, and twice as Finalist in eBay’s design competitions for the Quicksilver and Mercury advanced data centers. He has acted as an advisor and committee member for the development of DOE, EPA, CEC, LBNL and PG&E data center energy efficiency programs. Bruce is currently working with CLEAResult in San Francisco as their Consulting Director of Data Center Programs where he implements data center energy efficiency programs for corporate and utility clients and delivers data center design build retrofit solutions to end users.

Tom Panarisi

RVP, Sales - U.S. West - INAP COLO

Tom Panarisi leads INAP COLO’s sales team for the western region of the United States. In this role, Mr. Panarisi is responsible for driving INAP’s top line growth through customer acquisition and retention. He has 20 years of experience in the data center industry, with an intensive background in managed hosting and cloud. Prior to joining INAP in April 2017, some of Mr. Panarisi’s previous roles included southwest director of sales for Zerto and west coast director of sales for Latisys, where he played a large role in the organization’s growth leading to its acquisition by Zayo in 2015. Mr. Panarisi holds a B.S. in Criminal Justice from California State University, Long Beach.

Miles Loo, Jr.

Executive VP & Global Lead, Valuation & Advisory - Data Center Consulting Group - Newmark Knight Frank