Michael is a licensed Broker and is working as an Associate Vice President at Cushman & Wakefield (C&W). Prior to that, Michael worked at C&W was a Research Analyst in the Data

Center Advisory Group beginning in 2016. Michael has a degree in Finance and Economics from Wilfrid Laurier University.

Michael is a key part of our Global Data Center Advisory Group where he works on one of the largest top producing teams. Michael has worked on major site selection accounts

including projects for Fortune 100 companies, capital market transactions including land, industrial properties and off market transactions, specialized business case consulting, financial

analysis for clients, and works with teams to create, manage and implement listing programs across North America.

Mr. Sean Maskell serves as President of Cologix Canada at Cologix, Inc. He has over 16 years of experience in Telecommunication and Data Facility Operations. He founded Telehouse Centre Canada in 2004, which quickly became the fastest growing carrier neutral facility in Toronto over the next 8 years. Through Sean's vision and leadership, Telehouse has modeled a more efficient data center that reduces operational costs, while escalating facility reliability and customer experience. He continues to provide leadership and strategic direction for the Toronto and Vancouver locations to ensure Cologix customers receive the highest level of services to meet their most demanding applications.

Mr. Maskell is an active volunteer in his community and holds a degree from Niagara College, along with sales/management certifications.

Strahan is responsible for eStruxture’s product strategy, corporate development, and M&A and adds over 20 years of leadership experience in IT services & mission-critical data centers to the team at eStruxture.

Prior to joining eStruxture, Strahan was the Senior Vice President of Product & Strategy at Q9, a pan-Canadian data center provider that was recently fully acquired by Bell Canada. Before Q9, Strahan was the Vice President of Marketing & Product Development for Scalar Decisions. Strahan has also held senior leadership positions in the Hosting & Cloud Computing practice of Bell Canada, as well as management consulting and hands-on IT services delivery roles.

A respected cloud & IT infrastructure expert, Strahan has written several articles on Cloud Computing and spoken frequently at vendor and analyst conferences, including CICA Audit Conference, ITAC in Ottawa, DCIE in Montreal, L’Expert in Toronto, IDC Conference, ISAAC, and IT Canada. Strahan is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Toronto Public Library, North America’s largest Public Library system.

Strahan received his MBA from the Rotman School at the University of Toronto in 2005 and currently resides in Toronto, with his wife Heather and their three children.

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.

Michael Nehall is an experienced professional in Business Development and Product Management with over three decades of experience in data centre services, telecommunications and banking. Currently, he serves as the Director for the Global Interconnection Business at Equinix, where he is responsible for defining the strategy and product development roadmap for one of Equinix's largest product portfolios, comprising over 450,000 points of interconnection worldwide.

Previously, Michael was an Associate Director of Business Development at Bell Canada, where he played a key role in defining the Cloud strategy and establishing partnerships with major Cloud providers that led to the first Canadian carrier network integrations for their Cloud computing platforms.

Randolph (Randy) is a Vice Chairman at Cushman & Wakefield with 41 years of experience in commercial real estate and data center and portfolio optimization site acquisition and disposition, lease

negotiations, and over 40 years of experience in Commercial Real Estate. His data center expertise covers site selection, risk analysis, portfolio strategy, Real Estate strategic planning, and account

management.

Randolph is one of the founding members of Cushman & Wakefield’s Global Data Center Advisory Group. This highly specialized group is made up of uniquely qualified real estate brokers who

understand the specialized requirements of mission critical environments. Mr. Borron ensures that his client’s real estate solutions create optimum efficiency and minimized risk while meeting the

business’ needs.

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.

Jared Goodman is an accomplished Project and Program Manager with over 15 years of experience in Data Center Projects, Programs, and Operations. He currently serves as a Project Manager for All Control Systems and Low Voltage Structured Cabling at Edged Energy, where he also plays a key role in IoT Services for a 200+ location portfolio across Canada and oversees project development for Edged Energy.

Jared began his career at the Royal Bank of Canada, where he held the position of Facility Management System Manager for Critical Environments. Following his tenure at RBC, he transitioned to Aligned Energy, where he served as the OCC Manager. His roles at these institutions involved delivering excellence in Enterprise Data Center Construction, Retrofits, and interconnected Operations systems.

Jared's expertise lies in optimizing Data Center Monitoring project deliverables and restructuring operations for enhanced efficiency using connected toolsets, thereby improving reach, response, and oversight for extensive Critical Property portfolios.

David Kandel is an authority on hydronic systems for heating and cooling. Mr. Kandel holds bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from the University of Rochester (NY). He was one of the original engineers in the Belimo control valve product development group. He was an integral part of the group that developed the original CCV (Characterized Control Valve) and the PICCV (Pressure Independent Characterized Control Valve). Originally hired by Belimo in 1998, Mr. Kandel has held the roles of Manager of Valve Development, Product Manager for Control Valves and he currently works as an Application Consultant, Strategic Markets, where he supports Belimo’s efforts in the data center marketplace.

Mark Gusakov is the Chief Certification Officer at the International Data Center Authority and Advisory Board Governance Chairman for Nomad Futurists. IDCA is the global regulatory and certification standards authority that brings compliance to our digital infrastructure ecosystem to ensure resiliency. As a globally-recognized professional speaker on education, skilled trades, workforce development, supply chain impacts, Edge computing, facility resiliency, redundancy and operational stability, as well as fluid power expertise regarding liquid cooling applications, his well-rounded knowledge ensures a vast array of topics can be covered by discussing solutions and not dwelling on problems. Throughout a 20-year career spanning Automation, Process Control, and Value-Added Consultation, Gusakov's goal has been to work with clients to take their facilities and interests to world class performance standards. Gusakov continues to pursue advocacy for clients in their overall performance and stresses the importance of data-driven accuracy for management and operational success. With his transition to promote the educational foundation for emerging talent in the digital infrastructure industry as a Nomad Futurist, the organization is working diligently on building the structured curriculum for the next generation of talent. Gusakov holds an ATS Accreditation from Uptime Institute, LSS Yellow Belt, Parker PTAC Specialist, Festo Product Specialist and Eaton Product Specialist Certifications.

Mark is responsible for strategy, investment and business planning at Rogers Data Centres. He has 13 years experience in Critical Infrastructure and 25 years+ experience in sector analysis, Product Management and strategy. Prior to his current strategy role Mark was a Product Manager for a variety of critical infrastructure and telco products. As a strategy leader he excels in identifying cross-team opportunities and bringing the teams together to too realize the benefits and move the P&L. Mark has an MBA from Heriot-Watt University, a Masters of Development Economics from Dalhousie University and a BA (Econ) from St. Francis Xavier University. Between meetings and spreadsheets Mark spends his time shuttling his pre-teen between hockey rinks, baseball diamonds, football fields and martial arts dojangs.

Josh Rayner, VP of Sales at Coloware. With a decade of experience in leadership, sales, and operations roles in the technology sector, Josh brings deep technical knowledge and industry connections to Coloware. Prior to joining Coloware, Josh served as VP of Sales at Hut 8 and was responsible for driving growth across their data centre, cloud, and GPU services.

Dave has been in the utility industry for over 10 years helping support temporary, or long-term power generation requirements to industry, either behind or in front of the meter, using large reciprocating engines.

Dave has worked with, industry, utilities, ISO’s and RTO’s to support capacity requirements, emergency response challenges and help improve planned work requirements.

Dave joined the VoltaGrid in 2022 where VoltaGrid been supporting large industry by electrifying their processes when they have been completely stranded or have limited access to their utility.

By supporting their customers they have reduced emissions by over 38%.

Dave Misra is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Galaxy Data Centers, where he leads global strategy, tenant relationships, and investment decisions for the firm’s data centre platform. He has executed billions of dollars in leases with leading cloud clients, including hyperscalers, enterprise colocation clients, and cutting-edge AI companies. Dave began his career in venture capital before transitioning into data centre development. He has trained under former CEOs of CoreSite and Vantage, and has built strategic capital, leasing, and energy relationships with top technology firms worldwide. With a consistent focus on innovation, operational excellence, and long-term value creation, Dave has driven the growth of Galaxy's platform and established himself as a trusted partner to hyperscalers and enterprise clients navigating the evolving digital infrastructure landscape.

Adrian Sluga is a Senior Director at Bird Construction, serving as one of the company's Subject Matter Experts in pursuing and developing solutions for Healthcare and Mission Critical opportunities across Canada. With almost 25 years of industry experience, he has a robust background encompassing direct management of construction, master planning and site entitlements, logistics planning, pro-forma development, lease negotiations, risk analyses, and the delivery of complex commissioning programs. Before joining Bird, Adrian spent three years as the Vice President of Strategic Development at Pomerleau Construction, where he fulfilled a similar role. Prior to that, he built and led JLL’s North American Commissioning Practice for nine years. His extensive experience spans a diverse range of construction sectors, from condominium projects to airports, major healthcare facilities to pharmaceutical production facilities, and tenant fit-ups to globally recognized data center facilities. Adrian is a licensed Professional Engineer and holds an MBA, along with various other professional designations. His career has seen him in positions with landlords/developers, contractors, and consultants, bringing tremendous experience and a unique perspective to every discussion.