Data Center Investment Conference & Expo, East

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.

David Fiedler

Head of Physical Infrastructure
Dropbox

Dave joined Dropbox in mid-2014 to help plan, design and construct the organization's next iteration of physical infrastructure. Prior to Dropbox, Dave was fortunate enough to see the datacenter ecosystem from multiple vantage points, including infrastructure modularization as Director of Technology at Modular Power Solutions, datacenter planning and consulting as a Senior Consultant at Hewlett-Packard, and having started in datacenter design and construction at Page Southerland Page. He received his BSE from Duke University in Biomedical Engineering and is a licensed professional engineer.

Mark Jacobs

CIO
Delaware Health Information Network

Mark J. Jacobs, MHA is respected health information technology (HIT) executive who has demonstrated and pushed conventional HIT boundaries and has lead the charge for positive change in healthcare while respectful of the care workflow. An innovative and influential leader with more than 30 years of experience in hospital, integrated delivery networks and health information exchange (HIE). Mark is Delaware Health Information Network's (DHIN) first Chief Information Officer, the nation’s oldest and most sustainable statewide HIE. Mark brings considerable healthcare technology, interoperability, health policy, and information technology experience, and he has a proven track record of executing innovative IT infrastructure strategy, design, innovation and implementation initiatives. Mark is an action/results-oriented collaborator who focuses on efforts that enable meaningful information for providers whom deliver care, improves administrative simplification and enhances revenue/incentive management in the care ecosystem(s) and beyond. Mark is frequently called upon by Health IT leadership nation-wide for insights into successful, innovative, and meaningful Health Information Exchange in then new healthcare model.

Donna Jacobs

IT Senior Director, Technology Services
University of Pennsylvania

​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.

Justin Day

Director, Data Center & Operations
State of Delaware

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.

Ken Parent

CEO
Element Critical

Brett Owen

VP, Private Equity & Real Estate
Safanad

Brett Owen is Vice President, Private Equity & Real Estate at Safanad, based in New York. He was previously on the investment banking team at Citibank in Australia, working on a variety of M&A transactions, predominantly in the natural resources and industrial sectors. Earlier in his career, he was a Manager on the M&A team at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Australia working in the energy and industrials sectors. Mr. Owen holds a Bachelor’s of Commerce from the University of Melbourne, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance & Investment from FINSIA and is a Chartered Accountant (ICAA).

Anthony Bolner

EVP & Partner
Stream Data Centers

Anthony oversees business development and leasing across Fortune 500 enterprise accounts, and is instrumental in guiding the company’s collaborative ecosystem of partnerships, which include brokerage relationships, alliance partners and Stream’s growing channel program. Bringing more than two and a half decades of technical real estate expertise to the team, Anthony delivers data center and commercial real estate insight to ensure Stream excels at meeting customers’ evolving needs with tailored mission-critical solutions. Over the years, Anthony has served as an expert panelist and guest speaker for a number of professional data center organizations, including datacenterHawk, Data Center Dynamics, in addition to multiple AFCOM events and panels. Prior to joining Stream Data Centers in 2007, Anthony was a founding member of the data center solutions group at CBRE, where he specialized in delivering data center services to technical real estate owners and users. Anthony holds a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics with an emphasis in Real Estate Valuation from Texas A&M University.

Brian Doricko

VP, Strategic Sales
CyrusOne

Rick Galietta

Senior Director, Global Solutions Architects - Americas
Equinix

Lee Kestler

CEO
EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure

Lee is a 25-year data center industry veteran with extensive experience working with hyperscale and enterprise customers. As CEO, Lee is responsible for setting and managing the strategic priorities of the company to drive profitability and growth. He is based in our Northern Virginia office. Prior to joining EdgeCore, Lee served as Chief Commercial Officer of Vantage Data Centers, a Digital Bridge portfolio company, in a role focused on invigorating sales and marketing performance and expanding into new US and European markets. Additionally, Lee served as Senior Vice President Sales and Leasing for wholesale data center pioneer DuPont Fabros Technology (DFT), playing a key role in all aspects of the go to market strategy within North America as well as making significant contributions to the S-11 process for taking DFT public in 2007 by raising $740+ million. As founder of Kopend Ventures, Lee focused on management consulting for several firms. In particular, he managed a 300MW development project in Palm Beach County, Florida where he led the successful effort to get a data center sales and use tax exemption approved by the Florida Legislature. He is an advocate of low carbon and advanced energy generation solutions and has been active in digital infrastructure industry thought leadership forums throughout North America. Lee attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore County majoring in Computer Science.

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.

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.

Jason Reed

Chief Acquisitions Officer
Carter Validus

Jason C. Reed brings more than 20 years of real estate experience in complex global real estate transactions, law and management to Carter Validus. As Chief Acquisitions Officer and Senior Vice President, Data Center Investment Management, Mr. Reed provides the strategic vision to turn business goals into actionable plans with appropriate risk management. As acting Principal of Longview Real Estate Advisors, a full service advisory firm to the data center and telecommunications industry with a focus on mission critical real estate assets, he was responsible for the firm’s acquisitions, leasing and management strategy. Formerly the Senior Vice President, Global Real Estate at Equinix, Inc., Mr. Reed was accountable directly to the Chief Development Officer and Real Estate Committee of the Board of Directors for the allocation and investment of $2 billion annually across 22 countries and 44 metropolitan areas. Notably while at Equinix, Mr. Reed successfully implemented a global real estate administration program with coordination across several stakeholder groups including the regional Presidents, Tax, SEC accounting and Audit. Prior to Equinix, Mr. Reed served in various roles at Level 3 Communications, most recently as Vice President, Global Real Estate and Facilities, where he was responsible for the strategic planning, investment and management of 23 million square feet of global real estate consisting of over 10,000 properties across North America, EMEA, and Latin America. Mr. Reed received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, followed by earning his Juris Doctor and Master of Laws in Taxation at the University of Denver.

Jay Rappaport

CEO
Legacy Investing

Jay Rappaport is a co-founder and Managing Member of Legacy Investing, and has been involved in all of Legacy’s transactions. In 2003, Jay founded Centurion Investments, LLC and since then has transacted in over 16 million SF of net leased, industrial real estate representing over $1 billion of value. More recently, Jay founded Legacy Investing with Daniel English to focus on acquiring a portfolio of industrial real estate, primarily for a core set of family offices, focused on holding for the long-term. Prior to entering the real estate business, Jay spent 15 years as a senior executive of several Internet based companies. Jay began his Internet career in 1995 at America Online where he spent his first four years negotiating all of AOL’s major transactions, including the acquisitions of Time Warner, Netscape and CompuServe. After the merger with Time Warner, Jay became the company's first COO post-merger. After leaving AOL, Jay took the role as President of Vonage where he was responsible for the entire U.S. business. After leaving Vonage, Jay was President and COO of AddThis (sold to Oracle) and most recently EVP of Corporate Development for Cricket Media, helping to take the company public. Jay is also on the Board of Advisors to the Washington Wizards NBA team and a former advisor to the Washington Capitals NHL team. Jay received his J.D. degree from UCLA Law School and his B.S. in Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis, MO.

Rob Rockwood

President
Sabey Data Centers

Rob Rockwood serves as President of Sabey Data Centers and has been with the company for four years. Prior to joining Sabey, he served at CoreSite from 2001-2014 finishing as a Senior Vice President and General Manager. After graduating from West Point and serving in the US Army, Rob earned master’s degrees in construction management and public administration from the University of Illinois and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, respectively. Rob draws on his training and experience as a soldier and business leader to build teams that create the very best opportunities for customers and employees to grow and prosper. He lives with his wife Meg in Northern Virginia.

Craig Deering

Director, Design & Construction
CyrusOne

Michael Ortiz

CEO
Layer 9 Datacenters

Michael bring 23 years of investment banking, commercial real estate, and digital infrastructure experience, and with it he brings a deep understanding how mission critical infrastructure is the bind which holds today’s digital economy together. Serving as Chief Executive Officer for Layer 9 Data Centers, Michael leads the organization’s growth initiatives into Latin America where Layer 9 will begin delivering in 2023 hyperscale data center solutions to cloud service providers and enterprise 1000 clients. Michael has maintained leadership roles with hyperscale data center operators, Digital Realty and DuPont Fabros Technology and previously served in Portfolio Management at Equity Office Properties through the sale of the company to Blackstone in 2007. Michael’s investment banking experience at JP Morgan and Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group focused on capital debt placements and distressed credit workouts. Michael recently earned his Executive Education Certifications in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence from the University Of Oxford.

Howard Horowitz

Managing Principal
Kestrel Venture Partners, LLC

Phillip Sandino

VP, Data Center Operations
RagingWire Data Centers

Phillip Sandino is Vice President of Data Center Operations at RagingWire Data Centers, managing end-to-end operations of all RagingWire’s facilities. In addition to critical facilities operations, he has responsibility for corporate safety and security, infrastructure services and commissioning. Philip is an experienced operational and business development executive with a demonstrated history of business growth and operational excellence working in the energy and data center industries. Prior to joining RagingWire, Phillip spent 13 years at Dominion Energy as the executive responsible for running power generation facilities, liquid natural gas operations, and directing key customer accounts. He began his career and spent eight years at GE Energy working in engineering and sales worldwide. Mr. Sandino earned an MBA degree from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas Tech University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington DC Chapter of the 7x24 Exchange. Phillip is a veteran of the United States Navy.

Jason Green

CTO
Element Critical

Jason joined Element Critical With 15+ years of hands-on and management experience in the technology and data center industries. He has worked with, and for, all sizes of companies. From startups to Fortune 500’s, Jason relates data center infrastructure to comprehensive IT and business solutions. Prior to joining Ken Parent to launch Element Critical in 2016, Jason successfully built business and mission-critical teams in solutions engineering, managed services, engineering, operations, construction, security, and corporate strategy for multiple private and provider-based data centers globally. Jason co-founded Vantage Data Centers in Santa Clara, creating and running engineering, operations, construction, solutions engineering, as well as mergers and acquisitions. He assisted organizations in leading the delivery of four net-new Tier 3+ facilities and 50MW+ of customer solutions in 24 months. Subsequent to Vantage, Jason served as Vice President of Corporate Strategy at both Sentinel Data Centers and Gexpro (Rexel USA) before co-founding a boutique data center, IT, and energy consultation firm performing over $10BN of data center acquisition assessment in 2016. Prior to Vantage, Jason ran managed services and solutions engineering for FusionStorm, directed solutions engineering for RagingWire Enterprise Data Center Solutions, and ran global IT operations and disaster recovery for Gap Inc.

Henry Tran

General Manager, Managed Hosting & Colocation
Rackspace

Henry Tran is an accomplished business and technical leader with over 20 years of experience in IT transformation. In his role as a General Manager of Rackspace Managed Hosting business, Henry is responsible for P&L Management, Product Strategy, Product Marketing and Management for this business unit at Rackspace.

Jeff Ivey

Director, Construction & Development
STACK Infrastructure

James Leach

Vice President
RagingWire Data Centers

Over his 30-year career, James Leach has been part of the core teams developing internet, telecommunications, and infrastructure solutions, including: DNS security, global web domains, performance monitoring, industry vertical solutions, content delivery networks (CDN), virtual private networks (VPN), cloud computing, and data center colocation. Mr. Leach spent the first 15 years of his career at IBM, starting out as an engineer and then moving into sales, business development, and marketing. For the last 15 years, James has been a top marketing executive at Savvis, Internap, Neustar, Harris Corporation, and now RagingWire. At RagingWire, Mr. Leach is the overall marketing leader responsible for a data center portfolio of 1.5 million square feet and 113 megawatts of critical power in the United States and a global data center platform of 140 locations in 19 countries and regions as part of the Nexcenter brand of NTT Communications. In addition to his duties at RagingWire, Mr. Leach serves as the Chairperson of the Leadership Board for the Data Center and Cloud Infrastructure Committee of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), one of the largest and most influential technology associations in the United States. Mr. Leach also was nominated and approved by the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors to be a member of the Executive Committee of the Loudoun Economic Development Advisory Commission (EDAC), and currently serves in that role.

Matt Tyndall

Founder
Advocate Management Partners

Matt Tyndall is a creative design, construction and real estate leader with over 30 years of experience in mission critical infrastructure planning, design, diligence, deployment and capital planning. He is a team builder, business builder and relationship builder, creating world class organizations that consistently produce desired results predictably. Tyndall is a strategic and innovative thinker, creating strong aligned partnerships vs. quid quo pro relationships and world class products that are highly competitive that customers love. As an action-oriented, people-focused coach who creates executive alignment with strategic direction, Tyndall is also a high-performance communicator with mastery in credibility, influence and impact. He is a passionate and caring leader, committed to helping others and giving back to communities.

Jeffrey Plank

President & CEO
Agile Data Sites, LLC

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.

Dan Ephraim

VP, Sales & Leasing
PointOne Data Centers

Mike Hagan

Founder & CEO
EdgeMicro, LLC

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.

Scott Brown

President
Pixel Factory Data Center

Jeremy Meyers

VP, Real Estate & Infrastructure Business Development
EdgeCore Internet Real Estate

Frank Oliver

CEO
ServerDomes

Frank Oliver is a technology entrepreneur. In his career he has served as chief engineer, chief scientist, CTO and CEO of a variety of small business and start-ups. Currently Frank is focusing on commercializing the Data Dome technology, while also serving as an advisor and Interim CTO for a few other tech companies. When he is not working he can usually be found assembling small interconnecting plastic blocks.

Drew Farnsworth

Partner & Consultant - Ultimate Powerhouse
Green Lane Design

As a partner in the design firm Green Lane Design, Drew has been working in critical systems design for over twelve years. He has experience with highly available systems including UPS, N+N distribution, and HA cooling. He has undertaken dozens of investigations into data center growth, efficiency and reliability plans for Fortune 500 companies. Previous to his design experience he worked as a programmer developing ERP solutions which were integrated in a major hospital system. Drew values simplicity and first-principles thinking to create custom solutions for his clients.

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.

Buddy Rizer

Executive Director
Loudoun County Economic Development

Buddy Rizer is the Executive Director of the Loudoun County Department of Economic Development, the 2021 Economic Development Organization of the Year. During his tenure, Rizer and his team have attracted more than $50 billion in new commercial investment and more than 50 thousand new jobs. During this time, the growth in the commercial based has help lower the tax rate in Loudoun by more than 41 cents on the dollar, saving residents thousands of dollars annually on their tax bill. Mr. Rizer has been named a Tech Titan 7 times by Washingtonian Magazine, has been named one of the 50 most influential Virginians 6 times by Virginia Business Magazine, is a 4-time member of Virginia’s Power 500, and was three times named to the Washington Business Journal’s Power 100 as one of the most influential businesspeople in Washington, DC. Mr. Rizer is a Certified Economic Developer, a certified Entrepreneurship Development Professional, and a graduate of Virginia Tech's Local Government Management Graduate Certificate Program.

William McCausland

Senior Economic Development Market Specialist
Dominion Energy

Sunny Kumar

Chief Commercial Officer
SummitIG

As Chief Commercial Officer, Sunny is responsible for driving SummitIG’s sales, marketing and strategy efforts. In this role, he leverages his extensive operating experience in the areas of fiber networks, data centers, cloud and telecommunications services. Prior to joining SummitIG, Sunny served as the VP of Marketing and Business Development at GTS Central Europe, where he was responsible for defining and directing all corporate marketing, product strategy and business development activities. This resulted in a successful sale of the company to Deutsche Telekom AG. Preceding GTS, he served as Director at Qwest Communications (now CenturyLink) through the acquisition of OnFiber Communications, where he led specialized sales organizations focused on new and emerging technologies, including fiber network builds, data center expansions and customized cloud environments. Sunny spent more than 6 years at OnFiber Communications, holding various leadership positions within Sales, Marketing and Business Development. Earlier in his career, he worked as a strategy consultant at Ernst & Young, concentrating on Internet, telecom and technology firms. Sunny holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park and an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. ​

Garay "Doc" Goglio

Senior Account Executive, Mission Critical Data Centers & Industrial
Boland

Mr. Goglio has more than 40 years of experience in the HVAC (Heating, Ventilating & Air Conditioning) Service/Construction industry gained from performing trade work and extensive project management. He is also a senior- level resource in providing project development, troubleshooting mechanical systems, and retro-commissioning management. At Boland, Mr. Goglio serves as the Subject Matter Expert for Mission Critical Data Centers including account management, preparing service contracts, service repair, and retrofit and replacement work. Mr. Goglio also supports the development team in providing site surveys, troubleshooting, design review, and retro-commissioning support. He has developed strong client relationships and gained client trust through his ability to solve customer problems and generate solutions offerings.

Ross Rebraca

VP, Technology Sector
HITT Contracting

Ross Rebraca has more than 25 years of experience in the data center and mission critical sectors of the construction industry. Since 2006, Ross has worked at HITT and is now the vice president of the organization's technology division. He has been instrumental in launching the Technology market sector for HITT, which manages all data center construction. Ross plays an integral part in business development for the technology group given his numerous longstanding industry contacts nationwide.

Alan North

Founder & President
NORLINX Systems, LLC

Dave Meadows

Director, Technology
STULZ Air Technology Systems

David C. Meadows II has worked in data center cooling since 1999.  He is currently the Director of Technology with STULZ USA, a manufacturer of precision air conditioning, humidification, and dehumidification products specifically designed for the data center.  Previously David has served as both the Design Engineering Manager and the Applications Engineering Manager at Stulz.  David holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.  David is also a graduate of the United States Navy Nuclear Power School.

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.

Kylle Jordan

Manager, Business Development
Minnesota Department of Employment & Economic Development

Kylle Jordan is a Regional Business Development Manager for the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED).  In her role she works closely with companies of all types to help them locate and expand in communities throughout Minnesota.  She manages DEED’s Shovel Ready program and is also the state’s industry specialist in Data Centers. Kylle works with many data center developers and managers to grow and promote the State of Minnesota as an ideal location for new projects, help them qualify for the state’s sales tax incentive program, and provide forums for these industry professionals to connect.  As of January 2018 the State of Minnesota has 33 data centers certified under the sales tax incentive program, ranging from colocation providers like Stream and DataBank to enterprise facilities like Target and United Health Group. Please click on our Sponsor Logo to learn about valuable tax incentives. To connect with Kylle, please call 651-259- 7436 or email Kylle.Jordan@state.mn.us

Mike Herwald

Manager, North American Sales
Munters Corporation

Julie Forsht

Manager, Eastern Region
Powersmiths International Corp.

Chris Rudio

Global Director, Product Management
Johnson Controls