Todd Coleman is the President and CEO of eStruxture. Todd brings more than 25 years experience in the IT, data center and telecommunications industries. Most recently, Todd was the Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Cologix. Todd has also held several senior positions at Level 3 Communications, a global telecommunications company, including Senior Vice President of Data Centers, Senior Vice President of Media Operations and President of Level 3 Communications Europe. Todd holds a juris doctorate and a bachelor's degree in computer information systems.

Thadeus Mocarski has over 20 years of experience in private equity. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Economy and History from Colby College, as well as a Juris Doctor from American University.

Mr. Mocarski served as a General Partner of Nautic Partners, where he was responsible for managing the funds’ investment efforts in the Communications Infrastructure and Services sectors. He was also co-founder and General Partner of Key Venture Partners. The majority of his investments were in tune with Novacap’s investment strategy. He was a consultant for Novacap in 2012 while a General Partner at Bank Street Capital Partners, a private equity fund focused on growth equity, which he managed and co-founded in 2010. Having made three investments with Novacap, Mr. Mocarski became a partner in 2013.

Mr. Mocarski is currently Chairman of the Board of Host.net and Syntax. He sits on the Board of directors of Onstream and Firstlight Fiber. He is also a member of the Board of Overseers of Colby College and on the Investment Committee for the City of Providence Retirement System.

Cindy sets the strategy and tactics for Aptum’s global strategic accounts, responsible for sales and operations as well as driving revenue growth. Cindy is committed to building a company culture that embraces innovation and cooperation, allowing us to deliver an exceptional customer experience. Cindy also leads Aptum’s relationships with key alliances that enhance the go-to-market strategy for the company.

Focusing on excellence is the key to success, Cindy believes, and she’s not afraid to embrace risk if she sees an opportunity for improvement.

Cindy is a communications technology and IT industry expert with more than 25 years of experience in IT sales and service leadership. She has worked with organizations such as Xerox, Sprint, AT&T, SAVVIS (CenturyLink) and Virtustream (Dell), driving new levels of innovation and performance, strengthening regional collaboration and improving customer experiences.

Cindy is a board member of Tech Alpharetta and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management from the National Louis University in Chicago.

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.

Phil ​Horstmann founded Ascent in 1998. He wanted to align and integrate best-in-class critical systems infrastructure, facilities engineering, purpose built construction, architectural acumen and best practices operations protocols. Doing so would allow for the improvement of client operations in data center and other critical systems environments. Today, under his leadership, Ascent is a turnkey critical systems infrastructure solutions provider. The company provides a broad range of expertise, uniquely spanning data center planning, engineering, construction, management, real estate development and operations outsourcing.

As CEO and Managing Partner in fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547), Todd is involved with running the operations of the business as well as business development and firm strategy. Mr. Raymond has a reputation of successfully building enterprise value, taking companies from start up to executing an exit strategy. Prior to joining 1547, Mr. Raymond served as CEO, President, COO, General Counsel, Controller and a Director of The Telx Group, Inc. during which time he guided the company through multiple financings, acquisitions, SEC registration and two sales to private equity firms. Prior to joining Telx, Mr. Raymond was a founder of Stratus Services Group, Inc., an engineering and staffing services company, and served as its General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. During his tenure, he guided Stratus through multiple private capital raises, the acquisition of over a dozen businesses, and in April 2000, the Initial Public Offering of the company’s stock on NASDAQ. Todd holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Fairfield University, a Juris Doctor (JD) from Albany Law School of Union University and is completing a Master of Laws (LLM) in Finance Law from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. He is a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO), the Wine & Food Society of New York and the American Corporate Counsel Association as well as multiple bar and professional organizations.

There is a certain pride that Bernie takes in being trusted by clients from around the world to work alongside them and guide them on projects that they deem as critical to their businesses and operations. He strives to include all stakeholders and team members in the communication process, which he knows is essential to the success of each project. As a firm leader and project manager in HKS’ Mission Critical practice with over 10 million sq. ft. of data center space built, Bernie works across all market sectors and collaborates with HKS teams on technology-intensive projects around the world. His focus is on delivering successful projects while building and maintaining client relationships. With over 30 years of experience, he is recognized for his strengths in addressing technical issues, engineering coordination and construction practices.

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.

Buddy Rizer serves as the Executive Director for economic development in Loudoun County, Virginia,

which was named the 2021 Economic Development Organization of the Year by the International

Economic Development Council. He leads the agency responsible for encouraging growth and

developing relationships with Loudoun’s business community in both the commercial and agricultural-

based business sectors. During his tenure, Rizer and his team have attracted more than $65 billion in

new commercial investment and more than 60 thousand new jobs. During this time, the growth in the

commercial based has helped lower the tax rate in Loudoun by more than 48 cents on the dollar, saving

residents thousands of dollars annually on their tax bill.

Mr. Rizer has been named a Tech Titan eight times by Washingtonian Magazine (2017 – 2024), one of

the 50 most influential Virginians six times by Virginia Business Magazine (2018 – 2023), a five-time

member of Virginia’s Power 500 (2020 – 2024), and three times named to the Washington Business

Journal’s Power 100 as one of the most influential businesspeople in Washington, DC (2020, 2022,

2023). In 2024, he was named as one of the 50 most influential people in Northern Virginia by Northern

Virginia Magazine.

Mr. Rizer is a Certified Economic Developer (CEcD), a certified Entrepreneurship Development

Professional (EDP), has a master’s in business administration/economics from Longwood University and

is a graduate of Virginia Tech's Local Government Management Graduate Program.

Michael (Mike) K. Robinson serves as Sungard Availability Services (Sungard AS) Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Mike brings extensive operating and board leadership in public and private communications, technology and infrastructure companies to his role at Sungard AS. His focus includes strategy development and execution, driving business transformation, leading company culture, and focusing on stakeholder value. His customer-centric approach prioritizes the needs of Sungard AS’ production and recovery customers to ensure their business resilience.

Mike most recently served as CEO, President and Member of the Board of Directors for Broadview Networks. In his role, Mike led the transformation of Broadview’s strategy and business model from a traditional local telecom service provider to a cloud-based Unified Communications as a Service provider which served to meet the needs of enterprise customers nationwide. Mike has a proven track record of acquiring and integrating multiple companies, as he did with Broadview, as well as focusing on organic growth.

Prior to Broadview, Mike served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President for US LEC Corp., where he was responsible for all financial operations, including treasury, tax and investor relations, as well as human resources. While at US LEC, Mike raised substantial capital to fund the Company’s growth objectives. Prior to US LEC, he held senior roles at Alcatel (now Nokia), Windward International and Siecor Corporation.

Mike holds a Bachelor of Arts in business and economics from Emory & Henry College and a Master of Business Administration degree from Wake Forest University.

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.

James is the Senior Vice President of Operations at eStruxture and brings over 20 years of experience in customer service, mission critical 24×7 operations, data centre design/build, managed services and cyber security and compliance. Prior to eStruxture, James was the Vice President of Services at Scalar Decisions where his national team of professional services, managed services and project management experts delivered complex IT infrastructure, security and cloud solutions to a broad base of Canadian customers. James previously held data centre and security leadership roles at Q9 and Bell Canada including the operations of more than 13 customer facing data centres nationally and harmonizing security compliance practices to meet the needs of the most stringent security standards.

Michael, Vice-President, Property Management, for Canderel, is responsible for all site

management, operations and technical services. Michael’s role involves taking a holistic view

of property management ensuring best in class service for Canderel’s clients, tenants and

partners. During his career he has planned and led a number of complex projects. The most

recent is a major electrical infrastructure upgrade for one of Canada’s largest banks. He greatly

enjoys the challenges of balancing technical, operational, people and financial interests in

finding solutions to business issues.

Michael joined Canderel in 2016 as a General Manager at a mission critical complex serving

financial services tenants. He was promoted to Vice-President in July 2017 with oversight of

the Greater Toronto Area portfolio. Prior to joining Canderel, Michael worked at IBM in a

variety of finance and real estate roles. He championed agile office development and the

repurposing real estate for client engagement opportunities. He is a Chartered Professional

Accountant (CPA) and holds MBAs from both Cornell & Queen’s universities.

Tom Perkins, Vice President of Global Data Center Operations, Engineering and Real

Estate at Sungard Availability Services is responsible for the operations and engineering of

Sungard’s Data Centers, Workplace facilities and offices around the globe. He has extension

knowledge of managing and delivering diverse infrastructure and IT solutions to medium and

large organization. He has an in-depth experience with helping organizations design, plan and

implement highly availability technology solutions. Tom has responsible for over 5 million

square feet of data center space across 75+ locations around the world.

Over the past 30 years Tom has assisted organizations with successfully building,

operating, and ensuring resiliency of their business operations. As a IT Resiliency expert he has

directly assisted organizations which were impacted by various local or regional disasters

including the World Trade Center attack and Super Storm Sandy. He has a thorough

understanding and practical experience with managing crisis events.

He holds a BS in Computer Science from Montclair State University in New Jersey.

He is ITIL V3 Foundations and Service Operations certified.

He holds a Certified Data Centre Design (CDCD) certification.

As the Global Head of Bloomberg’s Facilities Infrastructure worldwide, Dave Wildman leads the engineering teams managing the company’s mission critical power and cooling systems. Dave’s role involves supporting multiple teams worldwide to ensure system functionality, resiliency and redundancy across the Bloomberg offices, computer rooms and data centers – the data centers being at the hub of the worlds most trusted source of financial data, news and analytics to over 327,000 customers, in 192 locations globally, supporting 19,000 employees.

Dave joined Bloomberg in 1998 in London as a Network Engineer, executing network infrastructure projects across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In 2006, he joined the Facilities team focusing on infrastructure activities in that region. In 2008 he relocated to New York as a Project Manager to lead a major data center expansion project. Today he’s the Global Facilities Infrastructure Manager. His team leads all aspects of data center facilities design, construction and their subsequent operation, along with the mechanical and electrical infrastructures within the offices, and the activities of the Global Health & Safety team.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, Dave worked at Dow Jones Telerate as a Data Network Engineer in their Operation Center in London. He began his career at British Telecom International as a Telecoms Engineer in their International Business Service Center.

Dave studied Telecommunications (Switching & Transmission Systems) in London, is a Certified Data Center Design Professional (CDCDP) and a qualified Department of Environment Data Center Energy Practitioner (DOE-DCEP). He is a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET) and a member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Dave is currently completing an Executive MBA at Cornell University in New York.

Shane is the product lead for the Platform and Applications services within Verizon Partner

Solutions portfolio. Products include: IoT, Data Center, Security, Professional Services and Emerging

Services. He is a 12-year wireless, cloud computing, data center and M2M veteran having held sales

management, product development and marketing roles.

Shane also served as an Engineer Company Commander in the United States Army. His service includes

an eleven-month tour conducting route clearance missions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom

(Afghanistan). Shane is an Army R.O.T.C alumnus and holds a bachelor’s degree from Ohio University.

Josh Crowe leads Sungard Availability Services’ (Sungard AS) initiatives to capitalize on emerging technologies and deliver fully recoverable production products and services to address customer availability and business continuity challenges.

With over two decades in the field, Crowe is responsible for product management and engineering, including all of Sungard AS’ portfolio of offerings: data centers and recovery centers, cloud and hosting, managed application cloud and recovery, and business continuity services. He also leads the company’s global information technology and chief security office organizations.

Before joining Sungard AS, he was senior vice president, product development for Internap and served in roles as vice president of software development and cloud services at Savvis (now CenturyLink).

Josh holds a Bachelor’s degree from Missouri State University and Master’s degrees in both business administration and information management from Washington University in St. Louis.

As the GTM lead for Google Cloud (GCP ) Canada, Alano Medonte leads the Channel & Partnership organization for GCP (Google Cloud Platform) managing the countries mission to ensure customers have the best and most talented partners in the program to assist & consult on Cloud Migrations. Alano's role involves supporting multiple Global Enterprise Customers & Partners through cloud migration journeys . His PDM ( Partner Development Managers) team build experienced Solution integrators, resellers & MSP partners who help customers migrate from Data centers to Cloud. His partnership team also have a fleet of PSM (Partner Sales Managers) who work directly with Partners, Customers and Googler's in migrations journeys to the cloud. The focus of his group is mainly on Hybrid cloud workloads , Data Lake migrations, containers (kubernetes ) with Anthos & GKE, C4M (Cloud for marketing), VM migrations and SAP migrations ). Prior to Google his passion for the networks and interconnectivity lead him to Equinix as the Director of Channel Sales & Alliances (Canada & North East U.S). During this time, alano worked with the world's largest managed services providers and Cloud Hyperscalers on data center & cloud migrations in an extremely global fast growth environment. During 3 year stay at Equinix the company grew from $245 USD a share to $575 USD growing from $19B to $49B market cap. Canada has also penetrated most of the key Enterprise and Global customers during that time. Prior to Equinix he had spent 15 years of his Career at Hewlett Packard most notably as the Director of Networks for Enterprise & Global accounts. Do to his time at HP alano is intimately familiar with Data Center ( servers, storage and networking and data center solutions). Outside of work , you can find alano teaching yoga as a certified kundalini yoga instructor, or sculpting interesting work that has made its way into several art galleries in Toronto and Montreal.

Jim Paterson is Senior Vice President, Global Product Management for Sungard Availabilty Services (Sungard AS). Jim has more than 20 years’ experience in information technology services’ product management and development leadership roles. He has a proven track record of creating products and solutions that address global market requirements and solve dynamic, complex IT and business challenges. In his role, Jim is responsible for global product management across Sungard AS’ solutions portfolio, including: Cloud & Hosting, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, Data and Disaster Recovery Centers, Managed Application Cloud and IT Consulting.

Sohail Zakaria has 20+ years of success strategizing, implementing, and leading teams at the brink of change and modern growth. He has a history of leveraging existing and emerging technologies, uncovering opportunities, and directing trailblazing strategies to improve overall delivery of product from idea to consumer. Zakaria is an expert in designing/simplifying solutions & implementing Application, Infrastructure, and Operation services for Large-scale enterprises to Start-ups. With a proven track record with a growth mindset providing unity, influence, collaboration, consistency, problem solving, and support to increase organization efficiencies he has excelled with competencies in Digital Strategy & Transformation, Datacenter Migration, Cloud & DevOps Architecture, Certified Scrum Master & Product Owner, Client Relationship Management & Retention, Budgeting & Financial Planning, Technical Planning & Execution, Business & Technology Alignment, Cost Control & Operational efficiency and Development & Empowerment of Technical Teams.

Adam has over 26 years of experience ranging from technology leadership, strategy, product design and management, digital transformation as well as public cloud enablement across a variety of verticals including financial, retail, media, and public sectors. Over the past 18 years he was involved with founding, designing, operationalizing, and managing 5 managed service providers. Since founding Oncore, Adam has been an enabler of next generation digital cloud enablement helping enterprises transform, remove risk and simplify integration with existing system through Cloud Adjacent Hybrid services. Oncore maintains Gold Partner status with Equinix and Microsoft, alongside Google, VMware, Red Hat and others. Together with the Oncore team and our partner ecosystem, we help clients maintain their technical maturity and leadership through their digital journey while delivering next-generation hybrid infrastructure enablement for the modern, cloud-enabled enterprise.

Stephan Abraitis is a seasoned enterprise technology executive with over two decades of experience leading mission-critical infrastructure and global IT service transformations across the financial sector. He is best known for his tenure at RBC, where he spearheaded the global transformation of the bank’s high-availability data center portfolio, overseeing site strategy, design-build delivery, operational governance, and vendor management across more than 91 facilities worldwide.

At RBC, Stephan’s mandate included modernizing physical environments to support next-generation workloads, enhancing resiliency standards, and negotiating complex vendor and service provider contracts. He helped shape a scalable, risk-resilient platform strategy that enabled 24/7 uptime for trading, core banking, and customer-facing services; while delivering cost efficiencies and long-term modernization aligned with enterprise continuity requirements.

Currently at Manulife, Stephan leads a global IT organization of 750+ professionals delivering services across infrastructure, operations, service management, and AI Ops. Under his leadership, Manulife has accelerated its transition to a cloud-first architecture, while embedding AI-powered observability and automation across platforms.

Stephan is a speaker on enterprise resilience, operational excellence, and data center modernization. His unique blend of structured risk governance, engineering depth, and entrepreneurial leadership has made him a trusted advisor.

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.