Zaid is currently GM in Microsoft’s Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering where he leads systems engineering and hardware development for Azure including AI systems and infrastructure. Zaid is part of the technical leadership team across Microsoft that sets AI hardware strategy for training and inference. Zaid's teams are also responsible for software and hardware engineering efforts developing specialized compute systems, FPGA network products and ASIC hardware accelerators.

Prior to Microsoft Zaid was head of infrastructure at LinkedIn where he was responsible for all aspects of architecture and engineering for Datacenters, Networking, Compute, Storage and Hardware. Zaid also led several software development teams focusing on building and managing infrastructure as code. This included zero touch provisioning, software-defined networking, network operating systems (SONiC, OpenSwitch), self-healing networks, backbone controller, software defined storage and distributed host-based firewalls. The network teams Zaid led built the global network for LinkedIn, including POP's, peering for edge services, IPv6 implementation, DWDM infrastructure and datacenter network fabric. The hardware and datacenter engineering teams Zaid led were responsible for water cooling to the racks, optical fiber infrastructure and open hardware development which was contributed to the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP).

Zaid holds several patents in networking and, is a sought-after keynote speaker at top tier conferences and events. Zaid is currently the chairperson for the OCP Foundation Board. He is also currently on the EECS External Advisory Board (EAB) at UC Berkeley and a board member of Internet Ecosystem Innovation Committee (IEIC), a global Internet think tank promoting Internet diversity. Zaid has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Physics from the University of the South Pacific.

Hunter Newby is an American entrepreneur, investor, conservationist and the owner of Newby Ventures. His primary field of interest has been network infrastructure. As Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer and a Director of Telx, he pioneered the carrier-neutral Meet-Me-Room and the development of carrier hotels and data centers in the United States leading to massive value creation and economic development throughout the Country. Since the sale of Telx he has been and continues to be a founder, developer and investor in the creation of multiple network-neutral infrastructure businesses all across North America.

Mr. Newby is a recognized authority in the network-neutral interconnection and data center industry. He has served on multiple company boards, is a published author, public speaker and has been quoted in several publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today. He has also been the recipient of numerous awards including being named to the Global Telecoms Business Top 40 Under 40 in 2010.

Mr. Newby earned a B.S. in Communications from Drexel University.

David Mace is a Managing Director of GI Partners. He has investment responsibilities for, and currently serves on the boards of Flexential and Far Niente Wine Estates. While at GI, Mr. Mace previously served on the boards of Duckhorn Wine Company, PC Helps, The Planet, The Telx Group, SoftLayer Technologies, and was a board advisor for ViaWest. Prior to joining GI Partners, Mr. Mace was with Palladium Equity Partners in New York and with J.H. Whitney in New York and San Francisco, where he served on the boards of Ariat International, Hard Dollar, and Physicians Surgical Care, and was a board advisor for Brooks Sports. Earlier in his career, he worked in investment banking at Bear, Stearns & Co. in New York.

Jason C. Reed brings more than 20 years of real estate experience in complex global real estate transactions, law and management to Carter Validus. As Chief Acquisitions Officer and Senior Vice President, Data Center Investment Management, Mr. Reed provides the strategic vision to turn business goals into actionable plans with appropriate risk management. As acting Principal of Longview Real Estate Advisors, a full service advisory firm to the data center and telecommunications industry with a focus on mission critical real estate assets, he was responsible for the firm’s acquisitions, leasing and management strategy. Formerly the Senior Vice President, Global Real Estate at Equinix, Inc., Mr. Reed was accountable directly to the Chief Development Officer and Real Estate Committee of the Board of Directors for the allocation and investment of $2 billion annually across 22 countries and 44 metropolitan areas. Notably while at Equinix, Mr. Reed successfully implemented a global real estate administration program with coordination across several stakeholder groups including the regional Presidents, Tax, SEC accounting and Audit.

Prior to Equinix, Mr. Reed served in various roles at Level 3 Communications, most recently as Vice President, Global Real Estate and Facilities, where he was responsible for the strategic planning, investment and management of 23 million square feet of global real estate consisting of over 10,000 properties across North America, EMEA, and Latin America.

Mr. Reed received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, followed by earning his Juris Doctor and Master of Laws in Taxation at the University of Denver.

Patrick Fiel is SVP, Corporate Development, at EdgeConneX, the only global data center platform focused exclusively on the Edge and Hyperscale. Patrick has nearly 20 years of experience negotiating corporate development, legal, real estate investment trust (REIT) and capital markets transactions. At EdgeConneX, Patrick leads global corporate development and mergers and acquisitions (M&A), including responsibility for structuring and executing EdgeConneX’s corporate strategies and growth initiatives. Previously, Patrick was with Equinix, the world’s leading interconnection and retail colocation data center provider. He also has served as a public company general counsel/ chief legal officer, an in-house counsel to a large financial institution focusing on global corporate investment banking, and as a capital markets advisor while at a multinational law firm. Patrick graduated from the College of William & Mary (where he has taught International Business Management as an adjunct professor) and the University of Tennessee College of Law.

Dave Vranizan joined The Benaroya Company in 1998. He serves as Director of Property Management and VP of Data Center Leasing, Centeris. With more than 27 years of experience in the real estate industry, Vranizan’s combination of skills in both construction and property management align with The Benaroya Company’s owner management philosophy.

Dave spent eight years in commercial construction as an Estimator / Project Manager for shell and core construction, civil development and tenant improvements and the following 19 years working for owner-developers in the property management roles of Construction and Property Manager.

Dave is Past Chairman of the Building Owners & Managers Association Seattle King County, and a member of NAIOP, AFCOM, 7x24 Exchange, and Cascadia Region Green Building Council.

Vranizan graduated from Central Washington University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management.

Dan Stoll is senior vice president of Dark Fiber Solutions West Region at Zayo. Dan joined Zayo as part of the company’s Electric Lightwave acquisition in 2017. At Electric Lightwave Dan led the company with a focus on delivering network solutions to large enterprise, government, education and wholesale customers, while driving the company’s strategic fiber assets and differentiated support model. Dan joined Electric Lightwave in 2000 as a business manager with the company’s Utah operations and held a range of leadership roles including vice president of customer operations and senior vice president of strategy and development.

Dan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in business from Westminster College and earned an MBA from the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.

Christina Kite is a senior technology, finance, and operations executive with more than 25 years of experience leading large, global cross-functional teams and programs for Fortune 50 and Government organizations. She is currently the Global Director for Strategy and Operations at Amazon Web Service’ Professional Services

Before joining AWS, Christina was the Vice President of Global Business Strategy and Analytics at Oracle where she was responsible for driving key business and customer strategies and initiatives across the cloud development organization. Prior to Oracle, she was the SVP for Corporate Group Strategy & Operations at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She has also held senior executive positions at Goldman Sachs, Cisco and Northrop Grumman. An aerospace engineer who grew to CFO, Christina also has her MBA from MIT and graduated cum laude with a BS in Management Science. She also has attended graduate programs at Stanford University and the University of Southern California (USC).

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.

John Regan serves as the Chief Investment Officer and has been in the technology and facilities infrastructure space for over three decades. In his most recent role as SVP of Acquisitions and CTO for Landmark Dividend, he executed on over a $1 billion in Digital Infrastructure acquisitions.

Prior to Landmark, Mr. Regan worked with Carter Validus (CV) Advisors where he was instrumental in the development and execution of the CV Mission Critical REIT I & II data center platforms from inception. Mr. Regan made CV’s first acquisition in July 2011. By October 2017, pipeline development and management led to closing of over 50 deals, amassing $2 billion of data center assets totaling more than 4.5 million square feet. Mr. Regan is a data center industry leader frequently speaking and moderating at conferences across the U.S. having a number of articles published by and about him.

Mr. Regan’s experience spans over 35 years within information technology, facilities infrastructure, business development, sales and acquisitions serving in various leadership positions while also providing advisory services and consulting for multiple startups. Mr. Regan served in leadership positions for 18 years with PWC, LLP as National Director of Data Center Services, National Director of Network Services, and Director of Infrastructure Delivery.

In these roles, Mr. Regan led technology and facilities infrastructure engineers and project managers through the execution of more than 26 million square feet of real estate projects spanning renovations, restacks, retrofits, consolidations, new builds and the merger of technology and facility infrastructure of Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse.

Mr. Regan achieved recognition by ComputerWorld for PWC as the number one Green IT organization worldwide in 2010 after the completion of a state-of-the-art Tier III LEED Gold-certified data center and driving other conservation practices organizationally. Mr. Regan is also an expert in BCDR having developed and executed a multi-tiered program creating PWC’s firm-wide Disaster Recovery program.

Mr. Regan has a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from St. Leo University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. Mr. Regan holds several certifications in the infrastructure space having achieved Accredited Tier Specialist (ATS), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) credentials. He holds multiple certifications and various systems designations through Digital Equipment Corporation, Research Triangle Institute, and NCSU.

David is an experienced public speaker and data center evangelist with over 25 years in

the IT/Data Center industry. He has held a variety of roles, from leading national product

and solution engineering teams to hosting the QTS Experience podcast.

David is passionate about using technology and data for the greater good. He believes

that data centers can help humanity prosper, nurture our planet, and safeguard a future

for upcoming generations. He is committed to fostering a community that brings

together a diverse range of users, thinkers, and implementers of technology for

enriching conversations, shared laughter, and immersive experiences into the inner

workings of our digitally connected world.

David is a visionary who is eager to leverage the far-reaching implications of our

interconnected digital lives. He is a respected industry professional known for his

Mark is an environmental permitting specialist and project manager at Landau Associates, an environmental consulting firm based in Edmonds, Washington. Mark has extensive experience assisting data center clients with environmental permitting in the Pacific Northwest. Air quality permitting for diesel emergency generators at data centers often gets the most attention because several regulatory agencies in Washington have adopted some of the most stringent permitting requirements in the nation. Mark has lead the air permitting process for dozens of data center projects, which in some cases, required completion of human health risk assessments and multiple public hearings. Mark and others within Landau Associates’ data center development services group have also helped clients find solutions required to meet their permitting and compliance obligations related to the State Environmental Policy Act, including wetlands/critical areas, geotechnical engineering, wastewater, spill prevention, and noise related issues.

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.

Chris leads business and commercial efforts for ScaleMatrix and its various brands and business units. Focused on both strategic direction and overall execution, he credits his nearly two decades of experience across a broad spectrum of positions within the hosting space with helping him anticipate the constant changes which face this ever evolving industry. Prior to ScaleMatrix, Chris served as president of the Complex Drive Data Center Group for four years, and held a number of key leadership positions within the hosting and colocation industry.

Michael Boyle is the Strategic Planning Director for the Westin Building Exchange located in Seattle Washington. He has held a variety of positions with the WBX since 2001. With over 19 years of experience in data center infrastructure, telecommunications, and information technology, Mr. Boyle has worked in virtually every aspect of data center design, development, and construction. This includes physical site planning, lease contract negotiation, bandwidth vendor selection, and hardware acquisition / installation. In addition, Mr. Boyle has experience overseeing complex, multimillion dollar, contracts in foreign countries for the U.S. government. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Applied Business Economics from the University of California.

Tejo manages the design processes and leads the construction of Stream Data Centers’ expanding portfolio of Hyperscale Data Centers, Private Data Center™ facilities, Build-to-Suit Data Centers and Ready-to-Fit™ powered shells. Tejo leverages his design, construction and mission critical background to support Stream’s ongoing growth, driving alignment across the design and development of new data center facilities and bolstering success for customers seeking to expand their IT footprints and capabilities.

Tejo holds a Master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University.

Bruce Eisele is Vice President of Operations at H5 Data Centers where he is responsible for strategic and

operational activities. Bruce has over 25 years of experience managing engineering and data center

teams supporting of critical business systems. His career includes leadership roles at Intuit, where he

managed data center sites across North America, including enterprise data centers hosting the

company’s flagship products – QuickBooks and Turbo Tax. He and his team were responsible for

managing construction, commissioning and completion of Intuit’s largest data center, located in

Washington State. Previously, Bruce served as Engineering Manager at PSS, leading teams responsible

for design and implementation of innovative solutions for government agencies.

As a senior member of BGIS’s Global Critical Environments Team (GCET), Jamie provides operational

solutions and risk management oversight to BGIS’s ongoing critical facility operations programs at client

sites throughout North America. Jamie has over two decades of experience in data center operations,

mechanical service operations, transition, project delivery, and facilities management and a deep

understanding of critical systems infrastructure. Jamie’s 18+ years of critical environments experience

with the BGIS organization includes roles in field service, site operations, project management,

consultative assessments, and transition to operations leadership.

An Industry Technology Consultant, C-Level Executive, Board Member, Innovator and Investor with a history of leading strategic teams to including: renewable energy, hyper-scale land developer, network infrastructure (Terrestrial/Submarine Cable Systems, Metro/Long Haul Dark Fiber, Lit Services); content distribution networks; data center relations and design, as well as internet peering/transit. With over 30 years’ experience, David embodies a unique industry perspective and can articulate an in-depth knowledge of network design, architecture, capacity management, traffic engineering, deployment, scheduling and support for some of the world’s largest network infrastructures. David managed a $1B annual network infrastructure budget spanning the globe with multiple investments in subsea and terrestrial fiber projects valued in excess of $6.6B over the term while at the same time achieving $4.7B in cost reductions over that same term. He is a motivational, results-oriented leader with a record of directing top-level international teams to grow and deliver business worldwide. Highly regarded by partners, customers and executive teams, David is known as a creative problem solver, skilled leader, key adviser and astute business development strategist supporting hundreds of billions in revenue globally.