Data Center Investment Conference & Expo, West

Christina Kite

Global Director, Strategy and Operations
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Barak Turovsky

Director, Product - Google AI
Google

Barak Turovsky is responsible for product management and user experience for Google Translate and Natural Language Understanding within Google AI team. Barak focuses on applying cutting edge Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies to deliver magical experiences across Google Search, Assistant, Cloud, Chrome, Ads and other products. Previously, Barak spent 2 years as a product leader within Google Wallet team. Prior to joining Google in 2011, Barak was Director of Product in Microsoft’s Mobile Advertising, Head of Mobile Commerce at PayPal and Chief Technical Officer in an Israeli start up. He lived more than 10 years in 3 different countries (Russia, Israel and the US) and fluently speaks three languages. Barak earned a Bachelor’s of Laws degree from Tel Aviv University, Israel, and a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

Zaid Ali Kahn

Head of Infrastructure Engineering
LinkedIn

Zaid Ali Kahn is the head of Infrastructure Engineering at LinkedIn. His teams are responsible for architecture, engineering and operations for Networks, Data Centers, compute and storage serving over 500M members. Prior to LinkedIn, Zaid held several senior technical positions in Silicon Valley; including Senior Network Architect at WebEx where he was responsible for designing one of the world’s first SaaS networks. Zaid is also the co-founder and former chairman of San Francisco’s Bay Area chapter of Internet Society. Currently he is an advisory board member at Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Along with his extensive professional accomplishments, Zaid holds 7 patents in Networking.

Jim Fletcher

Strategy Partner
Momenta Partners

Jim Fletcher joined Momenta Partners as a Strategy Partner, in the office of the CTO. in 2017. He most recently served IBM as an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the IBM Watson Internet of Things Platform. In this role, Jim had responsibility for the architecture and technical direction for IBM’s Internet of Things platform including identifying technologies, architecture, M&A and strategic partnerships. During his career at IBM, Jim served in executive management and technical leadership positions in areas of networking, IT systems management, and pervasive computing. Jim holds over 60 patents, is an IBM Master Inventor, and member of the IBM Academy.

Herman Brown

Chief Information Officer
San Francisco District Attorney's Office

Herman Brown serves the City and County of San Francisco as the CIO for the SF District Attorney’s Office. His private-sector mentality and a track record of success, has proved valuable contributions to the City & County for the last 6 years; with the last 2 years in his current role. With over 25 years of experience in IT, Herman’s managed several enterprise initiatives that consolidated services, streamlined processes, and lowered overall city operating costs. His experience spans various industries; defense, manufacturing, healthcare, software development, advertising and now local government. Herman’s aims to bring efficiency, transparency, and productivity to government by leveraging technology. As CIO for the DA’s Office, Herman leads the effort to transform a government law firm laden with paper to a digital one that rivals any private sector organization.

Shawn Tugwell

Director, Data Center Architecture & Engineering
PayPal

Richard Reyher

Director, Core Platform & Infrastructure - Global Data Center Services
PayPal

Rich Reyher is a Director, Global Data Center Services for PayPal Inc., the world's leading global payments platform. After serving several years first in the U.S. Army military police and then as a federal officer in the U.S. Department of Justice, Rich started as a systems engineer for Aether Systems, a wireless web communications developer, where he managed operations of their flagship data center in Phoenix as Chief Engineer until the site was sold in 2003. Rich began his career on the eBay team as Chief Engineer, overseeing construction and maintenance of eBay's first, and largest Tier IV data center at the time. Promoted to Director in 2015, Rich led the expansion of the Phoenix region into the largest portfolio within Global Data Center Services. He championed operational excellence, drove efficiencies and implemented industry best practices, with a proven up-time record of 99.999%. Rich recently moved to PayPal with the primary responsibility to run day to day critical infrastructure operations and decide strategy for all data centers globally for PayPal. Rich is an active member of the Uptime Institute and Data Center Pulse.​

Marc Bhuyan

Project Manager, Machine Learning Infrastructure
Google

Nabeel Mahmood

Member, Board of Directors
United Security Bank

Nabeel Mahmood is a Technologist, Futurist and a Keynote Speaker. His career is driven by one question – what’s next? He is passionate about the power of technology to deliver competitive and transformational change and the need to develop digital leadership that will create the enterprise of the future. He believes strongly in simplification, with a purpose. Nabeel brings 18 plus years of experience leading large-scale global technology organizations through seasons of explosive growth via M&A, global expansion, implementing new business models and technology innovation. His expertise includes leading organizations through transformation changes, connecting IT to the needs of the business, technology innovation, Big Data, Cloud, ERP, IoT, Mobility and Data Centers. He brings a unique blend of experiences spanning the entire breadth of technology from Grid to Chip. At, heart he’s a true technologist and futurist, he is a proven strategist, winsome communicator and leader with extraordinary vision and operational expertise within very large, complex organizations. Nabeel is a strategic CIO identifying opportunities that are being underpinned by emerging technologies. He serves on multiple boards and is an advisor to CIOs and CEO across a number of industries.

Joseph Jankowski

Manager, Construction & Facilities Engineering
Intel Corporation

Joe spent over 20 years in various process and factory related engineering roles at Intel concluding with the start-up of a new wafer fab in China. More recently Joe has been leading the design and construction of Intel’s Santa Clara D2 Data Center which will result in over 50 MW of compute capacity with world class PUE and server density.

Richard Donaldson

Co-Founder & Head of Strategy and Platform
Requis

Scott Peterson

Mark Thiele

Executive Director, Edge Cloud
EDGE GRAVITY by Ericsson

Mark Thiele is the Executive Director of Edge Cloudat Ericsson, one of the leading providers of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to service providers, carrying about 40% of the world’s mobile traffic. Ericsson enables the full value of connectivity by creating game-changing technology and services that are easy to use, adopt and scale, making their customers successful in a fully connected world. For more than 140 years, Ericsson’s ideas, technology and people have changed the world — transforming lives, industries and society as a whole.

Jeff O'Reilly

Senior Manager, Data Center Services
ServiceNow

Jeff O'Reilly is a Sr. Manager at ServiceNow running the cloud platform research and engineering lab. Jeff began his career at ServiceNow nearly 7 years ago as a Sr. Engineer where he implemented programs for data center compliance and site selection as well as standardizing data center infrastructure design to support ServiceNow's rapid growth. He was promoted to Sr. Manager in 2015 to run global data center operations before transitioning to his current role in 2017. Prior to coming to ServiceNow, Jeff worked at Casne Engineering for 2 years building an Engineering Service Desk, a subscription based model for engineering services providing reliable post project customer support and a steady revenue stream for the company to offset the volatility of work volume common to a consulting company. Jeff got his start in the data center world at Microsoft where he worked for 10 years as a data center manager, global capacity manager and research engineer leading the team which designed and implemented the EPMS for Microsoft's data centers. Jeff graduated from Washington State University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. He lives near Seattle, Washington where he enjoys doing DIY projects with his family on their 5 acre property.

Joe Goldsmith

CRO
RagingWire Data Centers

Joe Goldsmith is Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer at RagingWire Data Centers, responsible for all aspects of go-to-market strategy and execution including: sales, marketing, product management, business development, channels, and sales operations. Joe is a proven sales executive with more than 25 years of experience, including more than a decade in the data center industry. Prior to joining RagingWire, Joe was the Chief Revenue Officer for Vantage Data Centers, utilizing his expertise in complex contract and lease negotiations to lead Vantage to become an industry leader in wholesale data centers. Previously, Joe was Vice President and General Manager at Digital Realty, where he led efforts related to global alliances, channel sales, and colocation products, growing the company’s annual revenues from $200 million to over $1.5 billion. He has also served as Executive Director of Global Accounts at Qwest, Director of Sales at FiberTower, and Vice President of Sales at Colo.com. Mr. Goldsmith earned a Bachelor’s degree from the California State University-Sacramento.

Jonathan Atkin

Managing Director
RBC Capital Markets

Jonathan Atkin is a Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets. His global coverage areas include communications infrastructure and cloud computing as well as the U.S. telecom sector. During the last three years, Jonathan has received the #1 ranking from Institutional Investor in the Communications Infrastructure sector. He has also received #1 rankings from Thomson Reuters in Telecom Services and Real Estate Equities, a #1 ranking from the Wall Street Journal in Internet Services, and a #1 ranking from the Financial Times in Telecom Services. Before joining RBC, Jonathan was a senior consultant at BIA Companies focused on wireless strategy and valuation, worked in corporate strategy at Daimler-Benz AG, and was a policy analyst with the United States Congress. He has an MBA from Columbia University and BS and MS degrees in engineering from Stanford University. He is a two-time finisher of the Ironman triathlon.

Clint Heiden

CRO
QTS

Clint Heiden joined QTS in 2018 to lead the company’s Hybrid Colocation Sales and Marketing organization. Clint has more than 26 years of sales leadership experience in the data center, telecommunications and internet technology industries. Prior to joining QTS, Clint served as Chief Commercial Officer for five years at another data center company where he helped sell and deliver more than 80 megawatts of critical capacity to customers. He also previously served as President of Sidera Networks and held senior leadership roles at PAETEC, Cable & Wireless America and UUNET. In these roles, Clint led organizations responsible for over one billion dollars of annual enterprise revenue while at the same time generating significant organic revenue growth. Clint received his BBA in Computer Information Systems from James Madison University, where he continues to sit on the Board. Clint lives in McLean, Virginia with his wife and four children.

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.

Arman Khalili

CEO
VPLS / Evocative

Arman Khalili is the CEO of VPLS / Evocative and brings with him over 25 years of experience in Internet Infrastructure industry. Prior to joining the company, Arman served as a Principal at Industry Capital a real assets based private equity firm in San Francisco. He was the founder and CEO of CentralColo also known as Element Critical. Prior to that, he was the CEO of Black Lotus, a leader in DDoS mitigation company, which was acquired by Level 3, and was the Founder/CEO of UnitedLayer, the largest privately held colocation provider in San Francisco. He was the founder of Sirius – one of the first ISPs in Silicon Valley, as well as the Co-founder and CTO of MusicBank, the first music subscription company. He has held numerous senior consulting positions at Level3, AT&T and Apple Computers.

David Waller

Vice President
GI Partners

Prior to joining GI Partners, Mr. Waller was with The Carlyle Group in Washington, D.C. where he worked on funds investing in real estate throughout the United States and Western Europe. Earlier in his career, he worked with Riverstone Holdings, a New York based private equity firm focused on investments in the global energy industry.

Kevin Dalton

Senior VP, Construction & CFED
NTT Global Data Centers Americas

Kevin Dalton is Senior Vice President of Construction and Critical Facilities Engineering and Design (CFED) at NTT Global Data Centers Americas, Inc., responsible for leading the team that designs and delivers world-class data centers. Kevin is an expert in leveraging supply chain optimization and modular pre-fabricated construction techniques to drive rapid growth, improved quality, and speed to market. Throughout his career, he has set the standard for next generation data center designs and led multiple successful sustainability initiatives. Prior to joining NTT Global Data Centers Americas, Inc., Kevin spent 12 years at Digital Realty in technical and senior management roles, including seven years as Vice President of Engineering, leading teams of engineers to deliver data center solutions for customers around the world. Before that tenure, Kevin spent 10 years at MGE UPS Systems, a world leader in uninterrupted power supply systems, and nine years at McClier Corporation, a design-build firm. Mr. Dalton earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Chris Flynn

President, Data Center Fund
Lightstone Group

Jeff Ferry

Vice President
Goldman Sachs

Andy Carlson

CFO, Colocation & Cloud Infrastructure - zColo
Zayo Group

Ryan Oro

Senior VP, Revenue
EdgeCore Internet Real Estate

​Ryan is the Senior Vice President of Revenue for EdgeCore Internet Real Estate. In this capacity, Ryan is accountable and provides strategic direction for the sales, marketing, and product functions of the company. Prior to EdgeCore, Ryan was Vice President and Group Head of the General Management function at CoreSite Realty Corporation where he was a member of CoreSite’s Senior Leadership Team. Prior to CoreSite, Ryan worked in the Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group at Wachovia Securities / Wells Fargo.

Vinay Nagpal

President
InterGlobix

Vinay Nagpal is a datacenter and connectivity leader and visionary with over 24 years of experience developing products and technology solutions in datacenters with a strong focus on connectivity, terrestrial and subsea fiber. Currently, he is the President of InterGlobix LLC, a global consultancy firm focused on the convergence of datacenters, terrestrial and subsea fiber. Vinay is also the co-founder of the QTS Richmond NAP and serves on the Advisory Board of the NAP, a Global Internet interconnection hub in Virginia offering the lowest-latency, highest-capacity subsea connectivity. He serves on the Leadership Board of NVTC Data Center & Cloud Committee, NVTC Executive Circle and on LINX NoVA Customer Advisory Board. Previously, Vinay worked at Digital Realty, DuPont Fabros, Tata, Verizon, MCI, Digex, UUNET focused on datacenters and connectivity services Product Management and Development across multiple geographies in US, Canada, London, Singapore and India. He has also previously served on the Open-IX Association board and been involved in building global open standards for Interconnection. Vinay has an MBA in Information Systems, a B.S. in Computer Science. Science. He has authored whitepapers, Blogs and industry publications and is a featured speaker at datacenter and connectivity industry events globally.

Therese Kerfoot

Senior VP, Customer Lifecycle & Operations
EdgeCore Internet Real Estate

Therese is based in the Company’s Denver office and leads EdgeCore’s day-to-day data center operations and customer-lifecycle activities, from lease execution and move in through expiration and move out, including space build out, on-going support, and incident management. Therese brings significant experience in designing strategy and leading execution and operation of end-to-end service-delivery and customer-support teams, systems, and processes. Therese joined EdgeCore following roles of progressive accountability at CoreSite Realty Corporation, most recently as Vice President supporting and leading the company’s activities around customer-lifecycle management for more than 1,200 customers and $500M+ in annualized revenue. Her responsibilities included a) on-boarding and capacity deployment, b) on-going support via self-service systems (portal management) and a team of Strategic Account Service Representatives, c) capacity and contract management, d) service-processes design and improvement, and e) incident engagement, remediation, and avoidance. Prior to CoreSite, Therese was a Dean’s Research Fellow at the University of Colorado Law School, where she authored and collaborated in authoring works related to cybersecurity, telecommunications, and technology. Therese holds a B.A. in International Business from The University of Texas at Austin and a J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law.

Lane Anderson

Executive VP, Development & Strategic Procurement
QTS

With more than 25 years of experience in mission critical construction and design, Lane Anderson has an extensive background in MEP projects and design and construction leadership. Having delivered over 3.5 million square feet of data center projects, Lane is well versed in designing for efficiency to pursue low PUE facilities and has strong expertise in building design and construction teams. At QTS, he is responsible for Corporate Development, Construction, Design and Strategy, as well as Strategic Procurement.

Jennifer Reininger

Project Developer
CyrusOne

Michael Durham

GM, Silicon Valley
CoreSite

Michael Durham is the General Manager for CoreSite’s Bay Area market, responsible for the overall investment performance and business operation of CoreSite’s San Jose, Milpitas, and Santa Clara facilities. Mr. Durham has been with CoreSite in this role for 18 months. Prior to CoreSite, he worked in Mergers and Acquisitions for Agilent Technologies managing inorganic growth and IP licensing; as a Financial Analyst for Xilinx’s R&D and CTO groups optimizing budget spend and resource allocation; and as a transportation engineer for CHA, Inc. designing traffic intersections and general aviation airports. Mr. Durham received a B.S. and a Masters of Civil Engineering from Cornell University.

Jason Mayer

Co-Founder
EPI - Mission Critical

Jason is co-founder of EPI - Mission Critical where he applies 15+ years experience building Internet infrastructure including; Data Center, Co-location, Virtualization, Caching, Connectivity, Security and Analytics. Prior to founding EPI - Mission Critical Jason played a significant roll at Amazon Web Services' expanding it's data center footprint globally, delivering over 100 new sites ranging from small POP's to Large Availability zones (150kw to 50 MW). While at AWS, Jason championed best practices with engineering and operations around site selection world wide. Jason created the site selection strategy adopted by his infrastructure peers and worked closely with real estate/asset design acquisition teams to address GAP in TCO for data center owners & operators.

Josh Zhou

Manager, Applications - High Tech
Oracle

Tejo Pydipati

Northwest Advanced Technology Leader
DPR Construction

Tejo is a mission critical leader and project manager for the Advanced Technology core market group at DPR Construction, one of the top technical builders and the #2 ranked data center contractor in the U.S. (ENR 2018). With 7 years of industry experience, Tejo has built data centers for industry leaders such as Digital Realty, QTS, Equinix, and other confidential hyperscalers. He has supported several of DPR’s mission critical projects in Northern California, Oregon and Washington. Tejo has also worked on high-profile greenfield hospital and corporate campus projects in Northern California. His expertise includes programming, project evaluation, scheduling, project logistics, cost control, subcontractor management and strategic planning. He holds a Masters degree in Civil Engineering from Stanford University, as well as a Bachelors degree in Architecture from IIT Roorkee, India and a FE/EIT in California.

Jeffrey Moerdler

Member
Mintz

Jeff heads our Real Estate and Communications practices in New York and has significant experience in general commercial real estate law. Jeff’s general real estate practice includes acquisitions, sales, development, leasing, and borrower’s side financing. He 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, such as data center leases. Jeff also advises on the use of EB-5 capital in large-scale real estate transactions. His clients include both large national companies and smaller, local clients. He is frequently invited to speak on real estate, data center, and telecom topics. He also writes for several industry publications, and he is regularly quoted in national media. Jeff was a Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and led many of its major real estate and telecom transactions. 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. He is actively involved in settling real estate, partnership and inter- family disputes. During the past 30 years, he has developed a unique specialty practice in the intersection of real estate with communications, technology and energy issues. He has extensive experience representing landlords, tenants, and communications service providers in the leasing, purchase, sale, and financing of data centers, 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 data center leases, master services agreements and colocation 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 and bulk power purchases. Jeff is also a member of the firm's Not for Profit Practice, Sports & Entertainment Practice and Israel 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, data center and telecom topics around the country, Jeff has also written a 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 a Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (including serving as the lead board member on many large public private partnerships and real estate transactions), 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, 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.

William McCausland

Senior Economic Development Market Specialist
Dominion Energy

Bruce Myatt

Data Center Business Leader
Arup

Bruce Myatt, PE is a registered Mechanical Engineer, President of Critical Facilities Solutions, and Founder of Silicon Valley’s Critical Facilities Round Table (CFRT) and in San Francisco. He has over 25 years of engineering consulting experience working with critical facilities such as data centers, clean rooms, semiconductor fabs, nuclear power plants, and DOE’s nuclear weapons production facilities. Bruce is also Executive Editor of Mission Critical Magazine where he also serves as a member of the Technical Advisory Board and writes a data center column "Zinc Whiskers". Bruce has recently led the development of advanced data center designs for which he has been recognized as Finalist in the 2013 Data Center Dynamics NorAm annual Awards competition and has twice been selected as a Finalist in eBay’s national design competitions for their Mercury and Quicksilver projects. Previously, he led work for LBNL and PG&E related to data center energy efficiency benchmarking, technology demonstration, new construction and retrofit design assistance, and retro-commissioning. Bruce actively pioneered server cooling solutions including aisles enclosures that segregate air flows and prevent the mixing of chilled and hot air streams in data center environments. He has been selected as a technical advisor to DOE, EPA, CEC, LBNL, and PG&E Committees focused on Data Center Energy Efficiency, and he has provided data center technical presentations and panel discussions to audiences at several Data Center Dynamics conferences in SF and NYC, National 7x24 Exchange, The Uptime Symposium, Critical Facilities Summit, Next Generation Data Centers, Technology Convergence Conference, several PG&E Data Center Customer Energy Efficiency conferences, and many other events.

Chris Pumphrey

Executive Director
Douglas County Economic Development Authority