James Footh is a managing director at PGIM Real Estate on the global Data Center Investments team. Based in Seattle, Washington, Jim has transactional and portfolio management responsibilities for investments made by PGIM Real Estate in the data center sector and is a senior member of the Global Data Center Strategy portfolio management team.

Before joining PGIM Real Estate, Jim spent eight-years as a senior leader within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure team. His most recent role was the senior manager of AWS Strategy and Planning leading a team of infrastructure planners to develop private-cloud infrastructure solutions for AWS U.S. government and non-U.S. government clients.

Previously, Jim was a principal at AWS Strategy and Technical Leadership group where he had a global role focused on solving difficult and systemic infrastructure expansion challenges for new and existing AWS commercial regions. Jim also held roles as the managing principal for AWS EMEA & APAC Data Center Development with responsibility for leading teams managing all data center development across both the AWS EMEA and APAC regions. Earlier roles at AWS included Real Estate Development Manager of Western U.S., Canada and Latin America overseeing all AWS data center developments in these regions.

Prior to his years with AWS, Jim held a number of senior roles in the real estate services industry, including director in the Johnson Controls corporate real estate outsourcing business and leading the Capital Markets practice for Jones Lang LaSalle for the Northwest region of the United States.

Jim has a bachelor’s degree from University of Washington, he is also a member of the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) Institute, Masters of Corporate Real Estate (MCR) and LEED Green Associate.

Matt has 20 years of experience in telecom engineering, critical infrastructure acquisition, corporate banking, management consulting, and commercial negotiations. He spent the previous 12+ years at Google leading over $5B of global infrastructure acquisitions, and led data center site selection strategy, third-party data center leasing, utility interconnections, and land acquisitions across the Americas and Asia. While at Google, he recognized the need for a data center company that truly understood customer needs and founded Crane. Matt holds a B.S. from Georgetown University and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.

Patrick with over 31 years of domestic and international Data Center experience. He has held key leadership positions orchestrating complex Information Technology solution builds. His passion is delivering application and infrastructure transformations yielding operational efficiencies and cost recuperation. Patrick has been accountable for program development and execution budgets of $17M - $1.45T. His leadership directed matrixed staff, consultants, architects, and multiple EPC contractors. These programs encompassed infrastructure and construction management delivery of $3.4B in data center green and brown field initiatives. Under his leadership high-performing multi-disciplined engineering teams delivered design build and mission critical transformations beyond 4.2GW+ in capacity across the U.S. and EU. These programs aligned engineering teams with strategic technology roadmaps to meet enterprise, colo and hyperscale market needs. Prior to Introba, Patrick has significant experience as business owner, consultant, and contractor delivering mission critical facilities. He has held Data Center leadership positions as Director of Engineering, VP Program Director, VP Director, Enterprise Principal Architect, VP Infrastructure Services, Senior Officer Operations. His experience and client delivery include Airlines, Automotive, Banking, Defense, Financial Services, Enterprise Technology Sector, Education, Energy/Utilities, Health Care, Insurance, Manufacturing, Social media and Retail.

Lisa Connors is a Senior Project Manager at ACCO Engineered Systems with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from California State University, Sacramento, and 12 years of industry experience. She is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in California and has completed the MCAA Advanced Leadership Training program.

Lisa’s journey into the mechanical contracting industry began after an unsatisfying stint in automotive manufacturing. At 25, she returned to school, determined to avoid manufacturing facilities post-graduation. While working as an electrical CAD drafter and designer during college, she was introduced to HVAC through her husband’s father’s commercial refrigeration business. This transition proved to be the best decision for her, as she discovered a passion for solving problems in the HVAC industry.

Lisa specializes in projects related to data centers and manufacturing, known for her love of challenges and often taking on projects that others might shy away from. She is actively involved with SMACNA, serving on several committees, including the Code Committee, Youth, and Women in Construction. Additionally, she participates in a Women in Construction event at ACCO’s Seattle office.

Outside of work, she is an avid quilter, enjoys the outdoors, and competes in long- distance shooting. Her favorite quote is, “Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb… That’s where the fruit is.” – Harry Truman.

Nate Detwiler is a Sales Manager at Albireo Energy, leading a team focused on delivering cutting-edge mission critical solutions. With expertise spanning PLC/SCADA systems integration, legacy platform modernization, and new build automation, Nate is dedicated to helping clients optimize their mission-critical infrastructure.

Passionate about innovation and efficiency, Nate is dedicated to driving business growth through strategic sales, collaboration, and tailored solutions that enhance data center operations. Under Nates’s leadership, Albireo Energy continues to expand its market presence by leveraging its national reach, strong industry relationships, and a commitment to excellence. Nate and Albireo Energy are committed to delivering scalable, reliable, and future-ready solutions for the evolving data center landscape.

Joseph Rivera, VP Asset Management at Landmark Dividend, is responsible for

developing and implementing strategy for the Landmark Dividend data center portfolio.

He has more than 15 years of commercial real estate experience including Data Center,

Office, Retail, Medical and Industrial properties. During his career, he has overseen the

asset management of portfolios exceeding $2B.

An experienced Structural Engineer and Development manager, Blake Roskelley brings 14 years of experience in the construction industry to his current role at Clark Pacific, a leading provider of innovative engineering and construction solutions.

Blake works across a spectrum of roles - Business Development, Preconstruction, and Product Management. He is on the front lines of project pursuits, developing innovative gravity and lateral systems while working closely with design teams to ensure project goals are met. Post award he continues to refine project specific solutions having successfully standardized these project-based solutions into cost effective market facing products.

In addition to his role at Clark Pacific, Blake serves as a Director on the board of the US Resiliency Council. He endeavors to increase awareness of the importance of resiliency in building design, an issue of significant importance to the Mission Critical and Data Center market. His commitment to this cause underscores his dedication to the advancement of the construction industry and his drive to promote sustainable and resilient building practices.

Drew leads the commercial efforts at Polargy. He has a decade of experience providing infrastructure to the mission critical market and leading teams to achieve optimal results for the customer. Prior to joining Polargy, Drew was leading sales at DAMAC, where the majority of his time was spent in the hyperscale space creating custom tailored products. He thoroughly enjoys working within the space and is excited to watch the continued growth and new faces join as we all scale.

Paul is a data center industry leader with a long tenured employment with Silicon Valley technology company, followed by a second career in mission critical commercial real estate. He is well versed in all aspects of data center design, construction, and operations. Paul is a thought leader on high density facility design, water cooling, for new construction and facility retrofits.

· Paul has directly managed the global operations portfolio of data centers for large hyper scale operators, national portfolio for wholesale co-location and been technical design build leader on over $1.5 B in data center projects around the globe.

· Paul is currently employed by JE Dunn as Vice President of Mission Critical leading their West Coast client relationships, and a portfolio of projects. Prior roles include 22 years with Intel Corporation in various Sr Technical leadership roles for critical facility operations, facility design and construction. Paul was SVP of Design, Construction, and Operations for Informant, and helped lead the successful sale of that portfolio. He has worked for several confidential hyper scale clients on site selection, facility design, construction, and operations of global facilities.

Maria Poyer is a Principal within Strategic Programs & Global Expansion at CoreWeave, bringing more than $5B in transaction experience across 3GW+ of data center and industrial real estate. Previously, Maria served as Head of Acquisition and Development at Verrus, leading acquisitions, development, entitlements, economic development, and community engagement across its U.S. portfolio. At Microsoft, she led land acquisition and infrastructure planning for major cloud regions. At Amazon, she led lease, development, and land acquisitions and built and led a community engagement team supporting large-scale development. Her experience spans the full development lifecycle, from site selection and acquisition through entitlements, infrastructure, economic development, and community engagement.

As Vice President, Location Strategy and Acquisitions, AJ pulls from extensive data center land acquisition and strategy experience to drive proactive investment in the right markets. He leads market assessment, site selection, and contracting by leveraging robust market knowledge, desktop assessments, and a data-driven approach to opportunities and risks. In addition to his role at Stream Data Centers, AJ will leverage his expertise in Location Strategy for Headwaters Site Development, an independent affiliate of Stream. Headwaters identifies ideal data center sites and applies a robust and methodical due diligence and development process to bring sites to a shovel ready state.

AJ brings a diverse background of experience to the Stream team, having developed a comprehensive long-range strategy to a complex office campus portfolio, data center relationship management, overview of site due diligence related to contracting, and extensive land acquisition for data centers. Prior to joining Stream Data Centers / Headwaters Site Development, AJ served as the Director of Land Acquisition for the Americas at Microsoft where he led and oversaw significant growth in the company’s land acquisition to support self-build campuses. This included land acquisition in numerous geographic markets as well as the growth of key regions with the ability to deliver multiple gigawatts of data center capacity across thousands of acres.

Raj leads Thor’s Data Center program across the Americas, bringing 20+ years of sr. management experience from Google and Deloitte.

Before joining Thor Equities, Raj led Data Center acquisitions across the Americas for Google. During his tenure at Google, Raj also held roles as Global Lead of Economic and Community

Development (ECD) and regional leadership roles overseeing Google’s Data Center acquisitions in the US-Central and Latin American regions. In leading Google’s ECD program, Raj led global

programs in Economic Development, Public Affairs, Workforce Development, Social Impact and Content Development.

Prior to Google, Raj was a Sr. Manager in Deloitte Consulting’s Real Estate and Location Strategy practice group where he advised a wide range of multinational Fortune 500 companies on global location strategy engagements.

Raj holds a BA in Biology from Denison University and a JD from the University of Notre Dame. Raj lives in Pleasanton, CA with his spouse, 3 children and 2 dogs.

Brian is the Vice President at Stewart Title’s National Commercial Services group, where he and his team provide title insurance solutions for complex transactions across the United States. With over ten years of experience in the energy sector, Brian specializes in development, construction, and operations. He is an active member of the Houston community, co-founding the Renewable Energy Alliance (REAL) Houston and serving on its Board of Directors. Before his career in the energy industry, Brian served in the U.S. Army and completed a tour in Afghanistan.

Joe Graves is VP of network planning and development at QTS Data Centers. Prior, Joe had global ownership of Edge strategy for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, which includes planning & acquisition of data centers that enable peering and physical connections to major backbone and sub-sea systems. Additionally, Joe owns network planning for Oracle’s US cloud regions that connect edge sites to multi-MW compute facilities into the Oracle backbone. He is a 17-year industry veteran with 13 years of those years in business development at Level 3 and Zayo, and nearly 5 years at Oracle in data center and network planning. He has a diverse set of skills and experience in the industry with specialized training in both data center and network engineering disciplines. He has participated in several industry webinars and conferences on building sustainable, fiscally responsible digital infrastructure and has mentored several up-and-coming leaders in this space.

Rob joined Wesco in 2013, where he has served in various senior leadership positions. A communications industry professional since 1990, he worked with and led National Contractor and Technology Integrator companies for the first 24 years in the industry, with a specific focus on End User specialization and segmentation.

Since joining Wesco, Rob’s focus and leadership has spread across Electrical Construction, Communications and Security Solutions, Channel Alignment and End Users customers. In his current role, Rob is helping to lead Wesco into and through the full life cycle of the Construction of Data Centers, which includes bringing together all of Wesco's data center solutions and service offerings: assisting with design, development and site selection, enabling Site Power, providing Gray space and White space construction and procurement solutions, and providing Engineering, Design, Supply Chain and On-Site Services during the entire life-cycle of the project.

Rob resides in the Seattle area with his wife of 35 years.

Mr. Schempp is the Director of Engineering for Chateau Energy Solutions. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and has 20 years of experience in the energy infrastructure and mission critical industries. Mr. Schempp’s proficiency is in consulting and implementing large-scale electrical power systems and distributed generation for both government agencies and private industries. Through extensive relationships across synergistic markets he is able to provide innovative solutions and

Joshua Sharp is an award-winning Sales leader in Technology, Power and distribution industries. His ability to talk to anyone about anything has developed his personability, presence and mellow character. Solving the problem is the end, understanding is the beginning. Public speaking, Technology and People are a passion of his and he looks forward to learning from the industry leaders through the DICE community.

Matt has been working in water and process management solutions with Nalco Water for 28 years with the last 7 years focused on data center water management strategies and design innovations. He is currently a global account manager working with hyperscale providers and on liquid cooling development. He has an added passion for using his multi-industry experience to help all data center companies develop and achieve sustainability goals. Matt has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering, Bioresource Engineering, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Washington. He also co-owns Puget Sound Rum Company, a rum distillery in Woodinville, WA.

Brandy Chapman is a seasoned Business Development Specialist with a passion for safeguarding Mission Critical Sites. Collaborating closely with Directors of Security, Construction Managers, Architects, and Security Consultant firms, Brandy focuses on fortifying site perimeters to ensure utmost security. She firmly believes that the integrity of a high-security site begins with its perimeter, setting the standard for the level of protection afforded to valuable assets within.