John directs activity for Sabey Data Centers’ three million square feet of mission critical space held in the current portfolio, as well as new development, acquisition and the creation of new service offerings. He also serves as Senior Vice President of Real Estate for Sabey Corporation, overseeing the commercial real estate portfolio comprising office and medical technology space. His business career started in Chicago with Prudential Real Estate Investors and he joined Sabey Corporation in 1995.

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.

Drew Fassett is an experienced senior executive with more than 20 years of sales, services and executive management experience in the IT industry. As Chief Revenue Officer, Drew oversees the optimization of revenue generation from ByteGrid’s nine data centers. He is driving ByteGrid’s emphasis on managed services expansion and integrate and align all revenue-related functions, including sales, marketing, support, pricing, and revenue management. Previously, Drew was Senior Vice President of Sales for Peak 10 responsible for sales, operations and the financial management of the company’s 10 markets. There he was instrumental in driving significant organic growth by opening five new data centers as well as 400% revenue growth in cloud and managed services. Prior to Peak 10, Drew served as the Brand Segment Executive at IBM focused on strategic outsourcing and managed services for the Small and Medium Business (SMB) marketplace across North America.

Bob Cowan is the Director of Facilities for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He is responsible

for day to day Operations, Maintenance and Repair of the beautiful, highly complex, world class, 1.6

million square foot, Fred Hutchinson Campus. The 15 building Campus, located in Sunny Seattle WA, is

dedicated to both Cancer Research and Treatment, has over 4,000 staff and boast of 3 Nobel Prize winners

amongst the staff.

Bob’s been at the “Hutch” over 18 years and during that time has overseen an expansion program of more

than a million square feet, helped the Center win over 20 Energy Awards at both local and national level,

weathered more inspections than you can count JCAHO, DOH, FDA, AAALAC, CAP, etc.. And even

found time to take a 6 month sabbatical where he took his family on an around the World Adventure

covering over 40,000 miles.

Bob’s a retired Navy Commander; originally from Grosse Ile, Michigan (a small island between Michigan

and Canada) He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering and

from the University of Florida with a Masters in Civil Engineering. Bob is married to the former Kristina

Lindstam of Stockholm, Sweden and has three children Nicklas, 18, Clara, 17 and Hanna 14.

Ileana works in the Cloud Operations + Innovation CTO office at Microsoft, focusing on enabling and scaling next gen platforms into Microsoft's Data Centers. Prior to joining Microsoft, Ileana worked for the Data Center Engineering team for LinkedIn, focusing primarily on energy efficiency and operational cost saving measures. Before that, Ileana worked for a sustainability consulting firm, and Amazon Web Services' Data Center teams. She has a B.S in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Sustainable Design.

With over 30 years of professional engineering experience, Kevin is a Principal and Director of Mission

Critical Projects for Jacobs Buildings & Infrastructure, a Fortune 500 global provider of mission critical

facility solutions. A graduate of Penn State University with a degree in Architectural Engineering, for the

last 11 years he has led Jacobs teams in the successful delivery of critical data center projects up to

$1.2B in construction value and 100 MW in total capacity for our clients. In addition to design, he has

provided a variety of services including planning/site selection studies, audits, risk assessments,

construction cost estimating, scheduling and commissioning of systems.

Mark Thompson leads the National Advanced Technology/Mission Critical Group for DPR

Construction, one of the country’s top technical builders and data center and telecommunications

contractors in the U.S. (ENR 2017). With more than 28 years of experience in the delivery of

mission critical, semiconductor, life science and corporate office projects, Thompson works with

DPR business units across the country to enhance overall project delivery and quality of service

for the company’s Advanced Technology customers, which include industry leaders such as

Digital Realty, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo. He also serves as Project Executive on several of

DPR’s current mission critical facility projects and his extensive technical expertise includes

project evaluation, scheduling, project logistics, cost control, subcontractor management and

strategic planning.

Mark received his Bachelor of Science degree in Construction Management from California State

University, Chico and is an Uptime Institute Accredited Tier Specialist.