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.

Tag Greason oversees the Hyperscale sales divisions of QTS. With over 20 years of experience as a senior sales executive, marketer and financial analyst, Tag was promoted into his current role in 2018, after previously serving as the company's executive vice president of enterprise sales. As a member of the QTS executive leadership team, Tag helps to develop short and long term revenue growth strategies for the company.

Prior to joining QTS in 2011, Tag served as executive vice president for Current Analysis, Inc. and vice president of global services at Savvis Communications, Inc. Tag holds a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in finance from George Mason University, and a Bachelor of Science in systems engineering from the United States Military Academy. In 2009, Tag was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, where he served up until 2017.

Steve Verp is the Director of Real Estate for Digital Realty (NYSE:DLR). Steve is responsible for developing business opportunities and managing relationships with the real estate brokerage community, channel partners and IT consultant channels for Digital Realty’s eight East Coast markets. His scope of duties also include reporting on market intelligence and negotiating Broker agreements.

Steve has 15 years of Real Estate experience, including 5 years of Real Estate Investment Sales at Marcus & Millichap and 10 years of Real Estate law practice.

Steve received a B.A., political science degree from Union College and J.D., Real Estate from Cardozo School of Law.

John is an executive co-founder of Keystone NAP, and is responsible for the financial, legal and administrative activities of the company, with deep involvement in negotiating and closing customer and strategic partner engagements. John has an extensive and diverse professional career financing, advising, counseling and managing growth companies in a variety of leadership capacities. John is the co-founder of GenCounsel, LLC, a professional services firm that he co-founded and through which he also established a sizeable practice as strategic advisor and attorney to many growth-oriented technology, SaaS and cloud computing firms.

Prior to starting GenCounsel, John was the President, CFO and General Counsel of AirClic Inc. where he was focused on business strategy, developing key partnership relationships with wireless carriers and other large global technology firms, and customer acquisition. Together with Peter Ritz, John led the capital reorganization and transition of AirClic into one of the first “software-as-a-service” providers, after which the company won numerous awards including recognition by Deloitte LLP as the fastest growing company in the Philadelphia region across all segments and #6 globally in the wireless segment.

Prior to joining AirClic, John was a senior business attorney with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP where he led many strategic business transactions, mergers/acquisitions and public and private securities’ offerings. John began his professional career in banking, and was an officer for a large predecessor bank of Wells Fargo. John graduated from Villanova University School of Law and Dickinson College, where he also co-captained the intercollegiate football and baseball teams.

Grace Li, CFA, is a Vice President at Devonshire Investors, the private equity group for Fidelity Investments. The group oversees a multi-billion dollar portfolio of real estate, venture capital and wholly-owned operating companies. Grace is currently focused on the telecom investments at Devonshire Investors. The portfolio includes COLT Technology Services, a fiber-optic network provider throughout Europe and Asia and COLT Data Center Services, a carrier neutral data center operator throughout Europe and Asia, as well as other telecom-related investments. Earlier in her career, Grace worked in private equity focusing on hotel investments with Thayer Lodging Group, part of Brookfield Properties and in real estate debt financing with GMAC Capital Corp.

Jose is a senior managing director and co-office head in the New Jersey office of JLL Capital

Markets, Americas. He joins JLL as part of the HFF acquisition and is a member of the firm’s

leadership committee. Jose specializes in investment advisory throughout New Jersey,

New York and Connecticut and also oversees the day-to-day operations of the firm’s New

Jersey office. During the course of his more than 25-year commercial real estate career,

he’s been involved in more than $62 billion of office, industrial, retail, multifamily and land

sales.

Jose started at HFF in March 2010. Before that, he was the executive director of Cushman &

Wakefield’s New York area investment sales group where he spent more than 17 years. He

began his real estate career as a real estate analyst at PaineWebber, UBS, Inc.

Sean Brady joined Cushman & Wakefield in 1980 and over the past three decades, has consistently finished in the top ranks in New Jersey and on a national basis. Mr. Brady is one of the founding members of C&W’s Global Data Center Advisory Group (GDCA Group) and has been working in this sector since 1995. He has served on several data center speaking panels and also been a moderator on several occasions. He has also published articles on the market and the industry. Mr. Brady holds degrees in Finance and Marketing with a Marine Biology minor, from Long Island University. He is the past President of the Industrial Office Real Estate Brokers Association of Metropolitan New York area; Committee Member on the Education, Annual Gala and Golf Committee for NAIOP; Member of the New Jersey Association for Corporate Growth; Boater Subcommittee Head for SwimAcross America’s Greenwich Swim, which raises money for cancer research; and volunteers along with his family to coordinate fundraising events for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation Association for Fairfield County, CT.

Rafael Valdes leads the Energy and Capacity Management team for the colocation portfolio at Digital Realty. His responsibilities include energy management strategies and implementation, energy consumption and cost forecasting, and electrical & mechanical capacity management for mission critical infrastructure systems. Rafael studied Electronics & Communications Engineering at Catholic University of Valparaíso in Chile and has 16+ years in the data center industry.

Brett is a mission critical Project Executive and Northeast group leader for the Advanced

Technology-Mission Critical Core Market group at DPR Construction, one of the top technical

builders and data center/telecom contractors in the United States.

His previous experience as Director of Engineering (overseeing the design of over 200 data

centers) gives him a unique understanding of the construction, renovation and commissioning of

complex data center projects. Brett is a valuable team player, technical lead, and trusted partner

with over 36 years of experience in power quality and mission critical facility design and

construction.

Brett has worked on data center projects for industry leaders such as Bank of America,

Bloomberg, Citicorp, Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs, HBO Latin America Group, Merck

and Company, QTS and TD Bank.

He holds Masters and Bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in

St. Louis.

For more information about DPR Construction, please visit www.dpr.com.

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.