Frank McCann is a 30 year veteran of Verizon and Verizon Wireless, focusing on data center design, retrofits and greenfield builds. He has held several leadership roles within Verizon, most recently leading the Potomac Region’s Wireline Network Construction team. Frank also recently lead the Global Wireline Standards team, which encompassed all of Verizon Wireline’s network facilities worldwide.

Outside of his day job, Frank is on the Executive Board for Monmouth Council of Scouting America as well as Assistant Scoutmaster for his son’s troop. He lives at the beautiful Jersey Shore.

Jon Pettitt is a highly experienced, successful and well-regarded business leader within the data center Industry. Since 2011 Jon held the position of Vice President of data center for EMEA & APAC, specialising in data center cooling solutions and energy efficient systems for the Munters data center business area, Jon has over 15 years of extensive knowledge of HVAC projects for data centres and critical facilities. His background has included employment at York International and Johnson Controls.

Based in Chicago, Jason leads STACK’s Solutions Engineering team to provide best-in-class technical support to our clients, sales team, and overall business.

Jason joined STACK from Digital Realty where he led a global team focused on supporting the largest hyperscale, cloud, and content companies. Originally from the San Francisco area, Jason has over 25 years of experience supporting mission-critical IT in the US and globally.

Bernie is the Territory Manager of the Greater Philadelphia Metro territory. Bernie has been in the region and market over about 20 years. During this time Bernie has covered, Channel Partners & Resellers, Strategic Customers, Enterprise Customers, Colocation, and Data Center projects. Bernie’s expertise is in systems business focused on 3Phase and Cooling projects to help customers achieve optimization and efficiency in the data center.

Joe is Vice President, Solution Architects at Schneider Electric, responsible for bringing together the full

suite of our products and services to provide complete solutions for our customers. Joe has more than

22 years of experience in strategic planning, business development, operations management, and

system engineering strategies.  Joe started his career with the U.S. Air Force Nuclear program and then

lead one of the world’s largest financial data center portfolios. Joe provides strong technical and

business leadership skills with the proven ability to analyze an organization’s business requirements,

identify deficiencies and potential opportunities, and develop innovative solutions to meet the

customer’s business objectives.

Clark Pierce joined the MXA team in the fall of 2019 as the Lead Sales Engineer. He is tasked with maturing and leveraging relationships within the consulting engineering community to develop projects based around precision cooling and power supply products represented by MXA. Clark oversees all engineering client management related to MXA's core business. Vertical market focuses include mission critical data centers, biotech manufacturing, indoor agriculture, and residential high-rise. Prior to MXA, Clark worked as an Account Manager for Trane Commercial Systems in the NY Metro Area. While in this role, he gained significant experience with applied mechanical products related to airside and waterside systems. Clark holds a degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Adam Knobloch has been involved in the commercial real estate event and media space since 2010, having held roles in sales, account management, production and coordination. He joined Bisnow Media as the Global Director of Data Centers after having led event sales and strategy efforts in the CRE space for nearly a decade. Since 2012, he has found a significant passion for the data center and technology sectors, while building an international network of active followers across numerous asset classes in the US, UK, Canada and Ireland. In his current role, Adam oversees Bisnow Media's event and sponsored media strategy for the data center sector, having expanded its Datacenter Investment Conference & Expo (DICE) Series event offerings to more than 15 markets, with an international presence in the UK and Canada.

He previously held a board member role on the Telecom Exchange (TEX) Advisory Board, collaborating on content, speaker recommendations and event strategy. Additionally, he has made a point of promoting local and national organizations with a focus on STEM education and advancing the next generation into the technology sector through support, collaboration and ambassadorship. Notable organizations include the Nomad Futurist Academy, Infrastructure Masons, H5 Data Centers' STEM Fest and local chapters of both 7X24 Exchange and AFCOM.

In his personal life, Adam is a musician, having toured the east coast as the drummer of The Gantry. He was a frequent member of the NYC folk/indie rock music scene and is currently the drummer for A.M. County.

Adam holds a Bachelor's Degree of Business Administration from American University's Kogod School of Business, with a focus on Marketing and Public Relations.