Data Center Investment Conference & Expo, West

Bruce MacLean

CFO - Infomart Data Centers

Bruce has over 20 years of experience in the real estate/financial industry. Prior to Infomart Data Centers (Formerly Fortune Data Centers), Bruce was the President of Embarcadero Advisors, a real estate advisory/ brokerage firm focused on tenant representation. Prior to that, he spent eight years at Trammel Crow, where he spent three years as the Controller for Northern California. At Trammel Crow, he participated in the sale of a 19-property portfolio with $170M value for PacBell (now AT&T), performed all Acquisition/Disposition of properties for Exxon, among many other significant transactions. Bruce has also held various accounting & consulting positions with PWC, Ernst & Young, and Deloitte. He has a BA from UC Berkeley and holds a current California CPA license.

Scott Noteboom

CEO - LitBit

Scott Noteboom is the ceo.founder of Litbit, a new company focused on enabling software defined deep infrastructure. Prior to Litbit, Noteboom led Apple’s global infrastructure team, with responsibilities including strategy, site selection, design and development. Under his leadership, Apple launched several of the worlds most efficient renewable energy data center campuses. Previously, Scott held position as Vice President of Data Center Engineering & Operations at Yahoo!, where he led all aspects of the company’s global data center portfolio. Scott’s background also includes leading global data center operations at AboveNet. Early in his career, he founded an early regional Internet service provider, as well as one of the first integrated voice/data companies.

Michael Foust

Chairman, DataBank Ltd. & Vantage Data Centers - Digital Bridge Holdings, LLC

Michael Foust has over 30 years of experience in data center development and operations and institutional real estate investments including development and portfolio management. Since May 2014, Michael has served as the senior advisor for the data center industry for Digital Bridge Holdings, LLC of Boca Raton, FL and New York, NY. Digital Bridge is the lead investor in DataBank, Ltd. Michael retired from Digital Reality Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR) San Francisco, CA in 2014 where he led the company's IPO and served as Chief Executive Office and as a Director from 2004 to 2014, growing the company to an enterprise value of approximately $15 billion. The company was the first public data center REIT and developed into one of the largest owners and operators of data centers in the world with investments and operations in North America, Europe, and AsiaPac. Michael also was a founder of the private equity investor GI Partners in Menlo Park, CA where he served as a Managing Director from February 2001 to the DLR IPO in 2004. He was responsible for real estate investments at GI Partners, with a strong focus on technology related assets including data centers and telecom facilities. The property portfolio was taken public as Digital Realty Trust (NYSE: DLR) in 2004. Prior to the formation of GI Partners, Michael served as a Senior Director at CB Richard Ellis Investors in Los Angeles from 1999 to 2001. From 1995 to 1999, he was a Senior Vice President at CB Richard Ellis, where he managed regional asset services operations. From 1985 to 1995, Michael served in senior portfolio management and investment positions at Trammell Crow Company and Karsten Realty Advisors in Los Angeles and at UBS Asset Management in New York where he managed property investments for sovereign wealth and institutional investors. Prior to his real estate career, from 1979 to 1985, Michael participated in the origination of two related, international telecommunications companies, Consortium Communications International and Progressive Systems Inc. in New York and London. Michael received his MBA from Harvard Business School, and his Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude from Harvard University. For more information on DataBank, please visit www.databank.com.

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.

John Regan

VP, Digital Infrastructure - Landmark Dividend, LLC

Ken Parent

CEO - Element Critical

Based in Northern Virginia, Ken brings 30 years of executive leadership experience to Element Critical including significant successes rapidly developing and scaling highly respected companies. Prior to Element Critical, Ken founded and served as CEO at ByteGrid, a national platform of Tier 3+ data centers in the U.S. During his tenure at ByteGrid, he led the management team in acquiring five datacenters with over 800,000 SF of mission-critical space and 500 customers. Ken also led the successful strategic acquisitions of Annapolis-based Sidus BioData (a leading provider of compliant hosting solutions for FDA and HIPAA-HITECH regulated companies), and NetRiver, (a Seattle-based managed services provider) to diversify the ByteGrid portfolio and business. Before Ken joined ByteGrid, he was the COO of The Mills Corporation, a NYSE-listed, publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust that acquired, developed, leased and operated large-scale commercial real estate properties with total assets valued at nearly $8 billion. Prior to joining the Mills Corporation, Ken also held various leadership positions with Price Waterhouse and Kenneth Leventhal.

Corey Welp

Managing Partner - 1547 Critical Systems Realty

Corey Welp is a co-founder and Managing Partner of 1547 Critical Systems Realty (“1547”), and has been instrumental in bringing together the 1547 team. As the Chief Investment Officer, he is responsible for implementing the firm’s investment strategy including, underwriting and structuring new opportunities, evaluating risk, and directing the acquisition and disposition of properties. He is also actively engaged in raising capital and investor relations. Mr. Welp led the acquisition of the firm’s five current properties totaling over 700,000 SF of datacenter space under development, securing debt and equity investments totaling over $250 million. Mr. Welp and his team, located in the company’s Dallas office, are focused on building and managing a portfolio of world class datacenter assets with an emphasis on balancing risk and opportunity. Prior to forming 1547, Mr. Welp held executive positions with both boutique and major investment management firms. He has devoted his career to developing a network of investment advisors, family offices, and institutional asset managers. Through this network, investors have trusted Mr. Welp with over $4 billion for investment opportunities in various asset classes, including technology and real estate. Mr. Welp graduated from Creighton University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

Matthew Mescall

VP, Technical Operations - CoreSite

Matt Mescall is the Vice President of Technical Operations for CoreSite. Matt has 18 years of facility management, engineering, and data center experience leading data center facility management and consulting teams in enterprise and colocation companies.  Matt brings a consultative approach from his deep knowledge across all aspects of data center management to provide holistic solutions to engineering, operations, and deployment challenges. Matt has worked with companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and other enterprise customers. Matt has been with CoreSite for two years solving customers’ technical challenges, managing deployments, and working cross functionally with engineering and operations to support CoreSite’s customers across our datacenter portfolio in 8 markets across the U.S.

Tom Panarisi

Regional VP, Sales - U.S. West - Internap Corporation (INAP)

Tom Panarisi leads INAP COLO’s sales team for the western region of the United States. In this role, Mr. Panarisi is responsible for driving INAP’s top line growth through customer acquisition and retention. He has 20 years of experience in the data center industry, with an intensive background in managed hosting and cloud. Prior to joining INAP in April 2017, some of Mr. Panarisi’s previous roles included southwest director of sales for Zerto and west coast director of sales for Latisys, where he played a large role in the organization’s growth leading to its acquisition by Zayo in 2015. Mr. Panarisi holds a B.S. in Criminal Justice from California State University, Long Beach.

Mark Thiele

Chief Strategy & Chief Information Officer - Apcera

Mark Thiele’s successful career in IT spans 25 years and has focused on both operating roles and on driving cloud adoption across enterprises of all sizes. Mark has deep industry experience and extensive knowledge of the requirements of policy-driven cloud computing and drives cross-functional strategic initiatives as Chief Strategy Officer for Apcera. Prior to joining Apcera, Mark was the executive vice president of ecosystem development at Switch SUPERNAP, builders of the world’s highest-rated data centers. He is also the president and founder of Data Center Pulse, an organization created to promote best practices in the data center industry. Mark has held executive roles at HP, Gilead, VMware and Brocade and is a member of nonprofit groups including The Green Grid and Infrastructure 2.0, where he advocates for data center and cloud industry evolution. A globally recognized speaker at leading industry events on a wide range of topics including cloud, IoT, data center, DevOps, and IT leadership, Mark is a regular content contributor to InformationWeek, GigaOm, Data Center Knowledge and other publications. Mark also serves on the technical advisory board of several startups.

Don Mitchell

Data Center Division Manager - Victaulic

Don Mitchell is the Data Center Division Manager for Victaulic, aligning global business unit resources with data center and IT industry needs for zero impact fire suppression, as well as innovation in cooling solution designs.  Mitchell has over 15 years of experience in holistic data center solution development, including hyper-scale, enterprise, and hybrid cloud solution environments. Prior to joining Victaulic, Mitchell held leadership roles with Eaton, Schneider, APC, and served as an officer in the naval nuclear submarine program.   He has been an active participant and contributor in 7x24 for over 10 years, as well as various other IT Industry organizations.   Don has earned degrees in Mechanical Engineering, an MBA, and a MS in Information Technology, as well as a variety of industry and military certifications.

Miles Loo, Jr.

Executive VP & Global Lead, Valuation & Advisory - Data Center Consulting Group - Newmark Knight Frank

Bruce Myatt

President - Critical Facilities Solutions, Inc.

Bruce Myatt is best known as Founder of Silicon Valley’s “Critical Facilities Round Table” and as Executive Editor of Mission Critical Magazine, where he is also a Columnist and member of the Board of Advisors. He has spoken at over 50 major conferences including 7x24 National, Data Center Dynamics and Uptime Institute. He is a recognized “out-of- the-box” thought leader and award winning data center conceptual designer with experience in business and project development, and the planning, design and construction of many critical facilities. Bruce’s work has been recognized as Finalist in “Data Center Dynamics” 2013 NAM Awards for “Design Concepts and Forward Thinking” for TDC’s Off-Grid Computing Project, and twice as Finalist in eBay’s design competitions for the Quicksilver and Mercury advanced data centers. He has acted as an advisor and committee member for the development of DOE, EPA, CEC, LBNL and PG&E data center energy efficiency programs. Bruce is currently working with CLEAResult in San Francisco as their Consulting Director of Data Center Programs where he implements data center energy efficiency programs for corporate and utility clients and delivers data center design build retrofit solutions to end users.