Phillip has over 20 years of international marketing, strategy, and business development experience working in the Data Center, Telecom and Technology sectors for leading service providers. Prior to joining EdgeConneX, Phillip most recently worked for Equinix in various capacities in both marketing and business development. In addition, Phillip had stints at Coresite, Verizon, MCI, Nortel and Globalstar. Phillip was also a partner and founder of a tech consulting firm focused on international technology transfer and venture funding of university developed technology. Currently serving as the Chief Marketing Officer at EdgeConneX, Phillip is focused on developing, evangelizing and executing the marketing strategy and ecosystem development for the company. Phillip also serves on the advisory boards for Apomaya and Infrastructure Masons. Phillip holds a Bachelors in Political Science from the University of California San Diego, and a Masters in Multinational Commerce from Boston University.

Marissa is the Director Architecture & Infrastructure at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In her role she oversees the Institute’s primary data centers in addition to the IT operations and engineering teams. She has over 20 years experience in IT infrastructure and service delivery crossing the Higher Education, Advertising, and Defense verticals. This gives her a broad perspective into what drives customer requirements in the datacenter market. Georgia Tech is in the midst of transforming its IT infrastructure as it migrates into a new facility: Coda — a 750,000-square-foot mixed-use project — located between Spring Street and West Peachtree Street in Georgia Tech’s Tech Square. The project will enhance Tech’s innovation ecosystem, which fosters collaboration among the Institute, startups, and industry. Georgia Tech will be the anchor tenant, occupying approximately half of the 620,000 square feet of office space. The project includes an 80,000-square-foot data center is scheduled to open in early 2019. Georgia Tech is America's No 7 ranked public university. http://www.gatech.edu/techlanta-tech-square