DICE Northeast '19

Rahul Vijay

Head of Global Connectivity & Telecom
Uber

Rahul Vijay heads global mobility, IoT, wireless, messaging, voice, network, telecom, data center, cloud, contact center & connectivity strategic sourcing, relationships and spend at world's most valuable private company. He serves as a key partner to business development teams in managing partner-supplier ecosystems. In addition, he is a key partner to CFOs to successfully achieve total cost of ownership reduction goals. He works closely with CTOs for technology renting and buying strategies, and with chief legal officers for risk reduction, compliance and contracting. He has extensive expertise in partnerships, sourcing, procurement, supply chain, logistics, contract law, systems, market drivers, source to pay, cost structures and sales incentives. Rahul regularly engages in executive presentations, capital and expense planning, budgets and partnership decisions.

Harry Moseley

Chief Information Officer
Zoom Video Communications

Harry D. Moseley brings to Zoom a blend of transformational leadership, disruptive innovation, and corporate growth strategies. As the former CIO & Managing Director for KPMG, Harry was responsible for technology and innovation to support the firm's competitive growth. Before joining KPMG, Harry served as CIO & Senior Managing Director - Partner for Blackstone, where he led the company's transformation to the world's best digital alternative asset manager. Harry has been inducted into CIO Magazine's Hall of Fame, recognized as one of the world's top 100 CIOs by Computerworld, and honored by Irish Magazine as one of its Annual Wall Street 50. He is a former Board Member of Bi-Sam (since acquired by Factset), a former Advisor to Aquiline Capital Partners, a former Board Member of iLevel Solutions (since acquired by Ipreo), and led Blackstone's investment in Watchdox (since acquired by Blackberry)

Joseph Turnbull

VP, Global Network Services
Broadridge Financial Solutions

Jonathan Levine

CTO
Intermedia

Jonathan Levine joined Intermedia in 2015, bringing with him 25+ years of experience in information technology, cloud operations, data analytics, software development and corporate strategy. Levine is responsible for the company’s technology strategy, ensuring that Intermedia continues to deliver the security, availability, and value that customers and partners depend on. Prior to Intermedia, Levine served in a wide variety of senior leadership roles at Japanese leading e-commerce and internet service company, Rakuten. Most recently, he was the Vice Managing Director of Rakuten Group’s Development Unit, where he was responsible for global technology and corporate infrastructure and established Rakuten’s Next Generation Data Center, Private Cloud, Backbone Network and Global Development and Operation Center. Levine was also a board member of Fusion Communications, Rakuten’s telecommunications carrier, ISP and public cloud subsidiary. Previously, he served as Board Director, Chief Operating Officer, co-President and CTO of Rakuten’s Online Advertising Subsidiary LinkShare. During his tenure, Rakuten expanded from fewer than 50 employees to more than 10,000. Prior to his long career at Rakuten, Levine was co-founder and VP of Engineering at ePhysician. Levine has also held management positions at PointCast, IBM, and Lotus Development. He has five online marketing and database technology patents and is the co-author of two books on e-commerce and Java technology.

Dave Wildman

Global Head, Facilities Infrastructure
Bloomberg

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.

Frank McCann

Senior Manager, Network Construction
Verizon

As a certified Data Center Design Professional specializing in network design and construction, Frank McCann's current role as Senior Engineer focuses on Construction Power and Grounding for Verizon Wireless' Northeast and Great Lakes Markets. He oversees designs, request for proposals / quotes and company standards, as well as MOPs for the multiple regions from Delaware to Maine out through the Great Lakes. He recently transitioned from construction engineering for Verizon Wireless' nationwide network equipment centers. McCann's main area of responsibility was Verizon Wireless' Southlake Texas Network Equipment Center (aka Data Center), although he had projects in our other locations as well. After years of being the prime engineer for Verizon Wireless' corporate microwave network, his final task was to decommission it. The network, originally built for Transco, stretched from New York to Texas. McCann also lead Verizon Wireless' Disaster Recovery team. He has designed and built several Cell On Light Trucks (COLTs) for microwave communications, as well as disaster recovery nodes for Verizon Wireless' fiber network. Combined with other aspects of Verizon Wireless' Emergency Preparedness / Disaster Recovery efforts they could restore communications to anywhere within a 100-mile radius of a Mobile Switching Center. He also had the responsibility of overseeing Telco POP (Point Of Presence) rooms in several national network buildings. Additional specialties include Wireless Communications, Project Management, Product/Vendor Review, Power & Grounding, Disaster Recovery, Microwave Path Design.

Edward Buck

VP, Technology & Service Delivery
VPLS

Edward Buck is the Vice President of Technology and Service delivery at VPLS. Ed’s executive responsibility includes the design, delivery, maintenance, operations, and support of all VPLS services. Prior to joining Evocative, Ed was a VP at UnitedLayer a San Francisco based Colocation and Hosting Company. Ed also founded ASPextra in 2003, a company focused on providing scalable and highly available managed hosting solutions. At ASPextra, Ed built a network and service delivery internet infrastructure compromising of multiple, geographically dispersed data centers serving clients in the US, Europe, and Asia. Ed was a senior manager at Oracle where his responsibilities included corporate business development, technology acquisitions, and strategic alliances. While at Oracle, Ed was deeply involved in technical evaluation, acquisition, and implementation of Internet and e-commerce technologies that shaped much of the Internet ecosystem in its early years. Ed is a regular contributor to a number of open-source projects. He received his B.A. from Pomona College.

Eric White

CTO
Clinton Foundation

Eric White is the chief technology officer at the Clinton Foundation. He has more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry, starting his career with Microsoft. Eric has served as the founder and CEO of Utopia Systems, a pioneering cloud-hosting service provider and recently, he was the chief technology officer of Cloudscale365, a hybrid cloud and managed services provider. He has a deep understanding of cloud architecture, networks, and software development with a focus on the strategic use of innovative technology to create impact and improve an organization’s ability to succeed.

David Spiewak

Managing Principal
Next Tier HD / DJS Group

In 2013, David co-founded Next Tier HD, a boutique real estate private equity firm. Next Tier HD operates an investment, development and advisory platform with a mission critical, data center focus. Mr. Spiewak spends his time on Next Tier’s Investment business and its global Data Center consulting and brokerage arm (DJS Group). NextTier HD has developed and acquired over 3,000,000 sf of data centers and mixed-use assets since its 2013 inception, and over 6,000,000 sf of assets across the United States, since its founding partners started working together in 2000. Currently Next Tier HD has ownership in assets in North Carolina, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, and Virginia and is a partner and developer of Databank’s Georgia Tech HPCC facility in Atlanta, GA. David has specialized in the Mission Critical arena since 1997 having spent his career on both the IT and real estate sides of the house. Prior to Next Tier HD, David was a Principal and Executive Vice President of a global IT consulting firm, was a partner and Senior Vice President of T-Rex Capital, where he co-headed the acquisitions and leasing activities of the company. Prior to T-Rex, Mr. Spiewak was a Vice President of Tishman Real Estate, a founder of Plymouth Partners and a broker at Grubb & Ellis.

Tony Rossabi

CEO
Recovery Point Systems

Tony Rossabi is CEO of Recovery Point Group Holding Company, where he focuses on the growth of Recovery Point Systems, a leader in DRaaS, and other companies within the portfolio. A talented and seasoned executive, Rossabi brings over twenty years of experience in technology, communications, data center infrastructure sales, marketing, operations, and strategic planning. Prior positions include Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer of TierPoint, Managing Director for Digital Realty Trust’s colocation and connectivity business unit (Telx), and Senior Vice President of Global Carrier Solutions at TATA Communications.

Hunter Newby

Owner
Newby Ventures

Hunter Newby is an American entrepreneur, investor, conservationist and the owner of Newby Ventures. His primary field of interest has been network infrastructure. As Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer and a Director of Telx, he pioneered the carrier-neutral Meet-Me-Room and the development of carrier hotels and data centers in the United States leading to massive value creation and economic development throughout the Country. Since the sale of Telx he has been and continues to be a founder, developer and investor in the creation of multiple network-neutral infrastructure businesses all across North America. Mr. Newby is a recognized authority in the network-neutral interconnection and data center industry. He has served on multiple company boards, is a published author, public speaker and has been quoted in several publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today. He has also been the recipient of numerous awards including being named to the Global Telecoms Business Top 40 Under 40 in 2010. Mr. Newby earned a B.S. in Communications from Drexel University.

Chris Downie

Board Member & CEO
Flexential

Chris leads Flexential as a proven Chief Executive Officer with deep expertise in the economics, delivery and operations of the data center and hybrid cloud businesses. He is responsible for setting and managing the strategic priorities that drive profitable growth. Chris joined the company in 2016. Prior to Flexential, Chris was the Chief Executive Officer of Telx Holdings, a leading interconnection and data center solutions provider based in New York City, New York. He has over 25 years of combined executive leadership experience in finance and operations, working for Daniels & Associates, BroadStreet Communications and Motient Corporation. Chris holds a B.A. degree in History from Dartmouth College as well as a M.B.A. degree in International Business from New York University.

John O'Connor

Manager, Technology Infrastructure Operations
Bloomberg LP

Colby Synesael

Managing Director & Senior Research Analyst
Cowen and Company

Colby Synesael is a managing director and senior research analyst specializing in the communications infrastructure and telecom services industries. Mr. Synesael has been covering the communications infrastructure and telecom services industries as a senior research analyst since 2006. Prior to joining Cowen and Company in March 2010, he was at Kaufman Brothers and before that spent nearly three years at Merriman Curhan Ford. From 2001 to January 2006 he worked at Thomas Weisel Partners, spending his last three years as a research associate covering communications infrastructure and telecom services. Before joining Thomas Weisel, Mr. Synesael spent a brief period working at Allegiance Telecom. He holds a BS from the State University of New York.

Eli Scher

Chairman
Open IX Association

Eli D. Scher is the founder of New Continuum Holdings Corporation, and serves as its Chairman and CEO. Mr. Scher is also the co-founder of United Internet Exchange, LLC and serves as its CEO. He is an entrepreneur with a broad array of investing and operating experience. Prior to New Continuum, he worked as an analyst at prominent New York hedge funds where he analyzed corporate securities. Previously, Mr. Scher co-founded and served as CEO of GSME Capital Partners, a private, early stage investment partnership, and GSME Acquisition Partners I, a publicly traded acquisition vehicle. Additionally, he was Chief Financial Officer and director of MCG Group a Shanghai-based LED-advertising company, and was the co-founder, President and CFO of Fundamental Films. He currently serves as on the board of directors of HMMI, a specialized manufacturer of extremely large and complex steel components. Eli serves as the Chairman of the Board for the Open-IX Association and previously served as the Chairman of the Data Center Committee. Mr. Scher received his AB from Princeton University.

Tom Brown

President & CEO
Hudson Interxchange

Thomas (Tom) Brown is responsible for planning and implementing the company’s strategy, and managing the overall revenue growth of the company. Mr. Brown joined Hudson IX (formally DataGryd) in 2018 and brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in start-up, turnaround and high-growth operations. He has a proven track record of success in strategic and tactical market development, creation of brand awareness and customer relationship management. Prior to joining Hudson IX (formally DataGryd), Mr. Brown led the content, cable, and data center verticals within Windstream’s Wholesale Business Unit. From 1999 to 2009, he was Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at FiberNet Telecom Group, Inc., where he was an integral part in the sale of the company to the Zayo Group. Mr. Brown earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Patrick Fiel

Senior VP, Corporate Development
EdgeConneX

Patrick Fiel is SVP, Corporate Development, at EdgeConneX, the only global data center platform focused exclusively on the Edge and Hyperscale. Patrick has nearly 20 years of experience negotiating corporate development, legal, real estate investment trust (REIT) and capital markets transactions. At EdgeConneX, Patrick leads global corporate development and mergers and acquisitions (M&A), including responsibility for structuring and executing EdgeConneX’s corporate strategies and growth initiatives. Previously, Patrick was with Equinix, the world’s leading interconnection and retail colocation data center provider. He also has served as a public company general counsel/ chief legal officer, an in-house counsel to a large financial institution focusing on global corporate investment banking, and as a capital markets advisor while at a multinational law firm. Patrick graduated from the College of William & Mary (where he has taught International Business Management as an adjunct professor) and the University of Tennessee College of Law.

Leanne Starace

Senior Vice President
Equinix

Leanne Starace, Sr. Vice President for Equinix, leads Global Technical Sales for Equinix, the world's largest International Business Interconnection platform company with over 200 facilities in 54 key global metros in 24 countries. Equinix is the industry leader in digital transformation for Enterprise and Financial customers around the globe leveraging Platform Equinix which allows customers to connect directly, securely to the largest collection of Networks, Cloud and Service providers. As leader of the NE region, Leanne brings over 20 years of experience in interconnection, data center services, mobility, networking, managed services and digital transformation.

Vinay Nagpal

President | Executive Director & Founding Member
InterGlobix | IEIC

26+ years of global experience in Data Center & Connectivity industry specializing in Product & Business Management Vinay Nagpal is an industry leader and visionary with global experience developing products and solutions in wholesale and retail colocation data centers with a strong focus on connectivity, subsea and terrestrial fiber. Currently, he is the President of InterGlobix LLC, a global consulting and advisory firm focused on the convergence of data centers, subsea and terrestrial fiber. Vinay is also the Co-Founder and Member of QTS Richmond NAP, which is a global Internet Interconnection hub in Virginia offering the lowest-latency, highest-capacity subsea connectivity. He is the Founding Member & Executive Director of Internet Ecosystem Innovation Committee (IEIC), an independent global committee that promotes Internet diversity and forming of Internet nexus points. Vinay also serves on the Leadership Board of NVTC Data Center & Cloud Committee, and actively leads Northern Virginia’s data center and connectivity initiatives. Vinay has been involved in the subsea developments in Virginia. He also serves on the Submarine Networks EMEA Customer Advisory Board, LINX NoVA Customer Advisory Board, and NVTC’s Executive Circle. As an active participant in industry forums, Vinay is a member of the PTC Membership Committee, Marketing & Communications Committee and SubOptic Diversity & Inclusion Working Group. Vinay’s past endeavors include being part of the Open-IX Association board to build open standards for data centers and IXPs. As the Vice President of Product Management at Digital Realty / DuPont Fabros (DFT), he led product management of DFT’s Data Center, Connectivity and Managed Services. During his tenure, he developed company’s carrier-neutral data center connectivity and peering services, designed and implemented dark fiber networks and supported customers’ network requirements. His senior-level network-centric positions at Tata Communications, Verizon, MCI, Digex and UUNET allowed his to productize data center and connectivity services across US, Canada, London, Singapore, Australia and India. Vinay holds an MBA in Information Systems, a B.S. in Computer Science, an ITIL certification and a Higher Diploma in Software Engineering. He has authored white papers, blogs, and industry publications on datacenter and connectivity services. He has been invited a speaker to several renowned conferences across the world.

Joseph Liccardo

VP, Data Center Field Operations
CoreSite

Joe is a degreed Mechanical Engineer and the CoreSite Vice President of Data Center Field Operations with over 12 years of experience in the Data Center and mission critical operations industry. He was at one time a CoreSite customer and has been with the company for 3 years previously serving as the Sr. Director of Data Center Operations in the NY, BO, and MI Markets.

Tom Banta

Senior VP, Product Management & Development
vXchnge

Quynh Tran

Executive Director & Co-Head, Infrastructure Finance
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Quynh Tran is Executive Director and Co-Head of North American Infrastructure Finance at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (“SMBC”), with over 16 years of project finance experience in the infrastructure sector.  SMBC’s North American infrastructure platform serves the debt financing needs of sponsors with investments in the telecommunications, transport, water/wastewater, social infrastructure and core-plus sectors. With increasing activity in the digital infrastructure space, Quynh has been very active in building out SMBC’s coverage of that sub-sector. Specifically, in 2018 SMBC closed on six data center transactions in the United States. In addition to traditional bank lending in project finance/acquisition finance/corporate finance/holdcos, SMBC, through its SMBC Nikko affiliate, also provides investment banking services, financial advisory, project bond underwriting and private placements to sponsors. Prior to SMBC, Quynh was an investment banking associate at Robertson Stephens where she specialized in M&A and corporate finance in the retail and “e-tail” sectors.  Quynh earned a BA from Columbia University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. Quynh holds Series 79 (Investment Banking Representative), Series 63 (State Securities) and Series 52 (Municipal Securities Representative) licenses.

Dr. Mimi Tam

VP, Network Design & Architecture
Iron Mountain Data Centers

Dr. Tam has 35+ years in the Telecommunications/Wireless Engineering industry and had taken on roles from being a long time Embedded Software engineer, Software/Systems Architect, Software Development Manager, Technical Director, Technical Strategist, Director of Engineering and CTO in large companies such as IBM, Motorola, Computer Associates, Verizon Labs etc. to many small start-ups including her own entrepreneurial venture at one point. Started out as embeded engineer working with circuit switches such as Lucent 5ESS, DMS 100 to Packet Switches to Fixed-Mobile Convergence to 2G, 3G, WiMAX, 4G/LTE and now 5G. Other focuses include large scale E2E wired & wireless network architecture work from the RAN (Radio Access Network) to TDM, Fiber, IP/MPLS , microwave, backhaul – Transport Network to the IMS Core; SDN/NFV and Network Slicing transforming legacy networks to 5G-ready autonomous SON (Self Organizing Network) that can support M2M/IoT applications such as Smart Cities, Smart Grid, AgTech, Connected Homes, Connected Cars (V2X), eHealth, etc. Latest patents on M2M horizontal platform and Device Classes. Ph.D. Dissertation is on IoT Standardization.

John Diamond

VP, Engineering
Evoque Data Center Solutions

John Regan

Carter Funds
ACCI Fund CIO

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 over 50 deals amassing $2 billion of data center assets totaling more than 4.5M sf. 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 26,000,000 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 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 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.

Jim Paterson

Senior VP, Global Product Management
Sungard Availability Services

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.

Justin Kline

VP, Portfolio Development
Legacy Investing

Justin Kline is Vice President of Portfolio Development at Legacy Investing, where he leads the efforts to maximize the value of Legacy’s portfolio through acquisitions, leasing, dispositions, refinancing and related transactional projects. Justin started in real estate at the Washington, D.C. office of Colliers International Valuation & Advisory Services where he focused on property valuation and consulting along the eastern seaboard. More recently, he specialized in Investment Sales brokerage in Southwestern Pennsylvania at both Colliers International and JLL. Justin’s background in valuation and investment sales has created a well-rounded balance of technical ability and deal management that he is able to utilize to drive value for Legacy’s investors.

Jeffrey Moerdler

Member
Mintz

Jeff heads our Real Estate and Communications practices in New York and has significant experience in general commercial real estate law. Jeff’s general real estate practice includes acquisitions, sales, development, leasing, and borrower’s side financing. He 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, such as data center leases. His clients include both large national companies and smaller, local clients. He is frequently invited to speak on real estate, data center, and telecom topics. He also writes for several industry publications, and he is regularly quoted in national media. Jeff was a Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and led many of its major real estate and telecom transactions.