Leading the Curve:

The State of the Regional and National Data Center Market

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  Steven Finnerty

  VP, Sales

  zColo, a Zayo company

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  ​Shawn Kaplan

  Director, Sales - Northeast Region

  Equinix​

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  Bob Hicks

  Senior VP, Strategic Business Operations

  TierPoint

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  Allen Skipper

  VP, Market Expansion

  Expedient

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  John C. Smyth

  Owner & President

  Real Property Solutions

• Moderator

  John Diamond

  VP, Engineering

  Evoque Data Center Solutions

From Infrastructure to Cloud Deployment:

Bridging the Gap

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  Justin Day

  Justin began his career in public service with the State of Delaware in 1999. He quickly progressed, holding positions in Human Resources, Project Management, and IT Operations Management where he leads the Data Center & Operations Division at the Delaware Department of Technology & Information. In this role, he leads a team of 100 technologists with responsibilities for data center infrastructure, systems programming, computer operations, technical support, desktop and network services. Prior to his current role, Justin led the Statewide IT Support Center and Data Center Team, which is responsible for delivering IT services to all state agencies and public school districts. While leading the Data Center Team, he proposed and implemented strategies that consolidated the number of state data centers. These initiatives improved efficiency, lowered costs and reduced the environmental footprint by generating fewer greenhouse gas emissions. As a leader in IT Service Management, Justin greatly expanded services, implementing the State's first 24x7 support center and improving customer satisfaction by recruiting and developing superior talent, building relationships, and leveraging technology. During his tenure with the State, he has been an ardent student of leadership, actively striving to maximize the effectiveness of government. A native Delawarean, Justin was raised in Dover where he served with the Dover Fire Department. He currently resides in Newark with his wife, Steph.

  State of Delaware

  Director, Data Center & Operations

  Justin Day

  Director, Data Center & Operations

  State of Delaware

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  dMitri ​DeVos

  dMitri DeVos is responsible for managing and advancing INAP’s solution engineers and architects in colocation, cloud and managed services and hosting. Before his promotion to vice president, Mr. DeVos served as a director of solutions engineering, overseeing teams in the United States, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. He has more than 15 years of experience in technical operations management, specifically in hosting and SaaS environments. Prior to joining INAP, dMitri DeVos worked as a director of technology for LiveWire Mobile where he supervised and strategized the creation, development and launch of a digital music store and music discovery app.

  Solutions Engineering, Internap Corporation (INAP)

  VP

  dMitri ​DeVos

  VP

  Solutions Engineering, Internap Corporation (INAP)

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  Donna Jacobs

  ​For more than 10 years, Donna has served as ISC Technology Service’s IT Sr. Director of Infrastructure Operations at the University of Pennsylvania – Data Center Management, Network Operations, Enterprise Automation, and other associated Infrastructure disciplines. She is responsible for leading the ISC Operations’ team and its transition to implement the ITIL methodology into day to day operations, infusing enterprise automation within the Operations environment, and implementation of a Quality Management System. The organization conforms to the ISO 9001:2015 quality standard. In this (and previous) roles, Donna has traditionally been brought in to transform organizations into more efficient, high performance operations. She is also an adjunct faculty member for Wilmington University’s Graduate and Undergraduate Programs in Technology. Professionally, Donna holds Board positions in the AFCOM Midlantic, 7x24 Exchange Delaware Valley, and Liberty Valley Association of Contingency Planners organizations. Donna holds a B.A. from Neumann University and an MBA from Wilmington University.

  University of Pennsylvania

  IT Senior Director, Technology Services

  Donna Jacobs

  IT Senior Director, Technology Services

  University of Pennsylvania

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  Kevin Olsavsky

  With over 30 years of professional engineering experience, Kevin is a Principal and Director of Mission Critical Projects for Jacobs Buildings & Infrastructure, a Fortune 500 global provider of mission critical facility solutions. A graduate of Penn State University with a degree in Architectural Engineering, for the last 11 years he has led Jacobs teams in the successful delivery of critical data center projects up to $1.2B in construction value and 100 MW in total capacity for our clients. In addition to design, he has provided a variety of services including planning/site selection studies, audits, risk assessments, construction cost estimating, scheduling and commissioning of systems.

  Jacobs

  Principal

  Kevin Olsavsky

  Principal

  Jacobs

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  Jeffrey Plank

  Jeff is recognized as a leader in the hosting, colocation and managed services industries. Prior to leading AGILE, Jeff served as EVP and CTO for Directlink, taking the company from startup to a successful data center services provider with responsibilities including managing operations, sales, marketing and overall organizational direction. He brings more than 20 years’ experience to his current role. Jeff held similar roles with Champion Solutions Group as an overlay sales and engineering resource for the IBM Channel for the eastern US, supporting IBM sales teams in qualifying and developing Hosting, Collocation and Managed Services solutions. Prior to that Jeff was a Director of Hosting and Managed Services at AT&T when the industry began to take shape. He was instrumental in developing the data center markets in Secaucus and Ashburn in the late 90’s/ early 2000’s for AT&T, winning large hosting and services contract for enterprise clients as well as Internet startups that have grown into what is eBay today.

  Agile Data Sites, LLC

  President & CEO

  Jeffrey Plank

  President & CEO

  Agile Data Sites, LLC

• Moderator

  Walt Herring

  Senior Telecommunications Engineer

  AKF Group