2025 Speakers

Keith Taylor leads the company’s global finance organization, including accounting, business assurance, financial planning and analysis, finance transformation, investor relations, payroll and stock services, procurement and strategic sourcing, corporate real estate, risk and security, tax and treasury.

During his 25+ year tenure, Keith has stewarded the company through a period of exceptional growth, delivering more than $8 billion in annual revenue. He has completed over 29 acquisitions and $50 billion in capital market activities, deploying nearly $40 billion of capital to help fund the growth. Keith also oversees the company’s commitment to sustainability leadership, including developing a Green Finance Framework to benefit the communities where Equinix operates as well as its employees and stakeholders.

Keith joined Equinix in 1999 after holding a number of finance roles at International Wireless Communications and Becton Dickinson & Company. He has been recognized as “Best CFO” on Institutional Investor’s prestigious list and serves on the Board of Directors at Invitation Homes, Frozen Logistics and Yumpingo Ltd. Keith holds a B.B.A. from Bishop's University in Quebec, is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and is a founding member of the U.S. Chapter of His Majesty, King Charles’ sponsored global Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) CFO Leadership Network.

Fran Federman serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer at CyrusOne, where she leads the company's capital markets activities and strategic transactions. With over 18 years of senior finance experience, she brings deep expertise in corporate finance, strategy, financial planning, investor relations, and capital markets across multiple industries. Her career includes leadership roles as CFO at IQHQ, Managing Director at Ventas Life Science and Healthcare Real Estate Fund, and Vice President and Head of Capital Markets at Ventas. Fran holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Finance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is also the Board Chair for the National Eating Disorder Association.

Bill Long is an experienced telecommunications and technology leader. As Chief Product and Strategy Officer at Zayo, he leads the company’s overall product strategy, financials, and roadmap.

Bill has nearly two decades of experience in the telecommunications industry with expertise in interconnection and infrastructure services, enterprise and wholesale voice, and business and product development.

Prior to joining Zayo, Bill served as senior vice president of product management and was responsible for the overall growth and profitability of Equinix Interconnection and Data Center Products globally. Prior to Equinix, he held several roles at Level 3 Communications, including VP of Voice Services, Senior Director of Voice Product Development and Director of Emerging Opportunities.
 

Brian Stading is the Chief Executive Officer at Lumos. Reporting to Lumos’ Board of Directors, he joins the Lumos executive team with a bold growth plan to expand the company’s 100% Fiber Internet network to over one million homes in the next five years. Brian has a track record of proven leadership and success that spans over 30 years of experience at telecommunications companies, including Ziply, CenturyLink and Qwest. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration at Aurora University and a master’s from the Kellogg Graduate School of Business at Northwestern University.

Allan Samson is Senior Vice President and Chief Broadband Officer at T-Mobile.  He leads all aspects of T-Mobile’s Broadband Internet services, including fiber and fixed wireless expansion, brand development, and customer acquisition and retention. Allan and his team are charged with making T-Mobile a top-tier broadband provider to both consumers and businesses nationwide, providing value-leading connectivity solutions to single family homes, multiple-dwelling units, and offices.

Adam Waltz is a Managing Director in BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Fund focused on investments in digital infrastructure opportunities across fiber networks, data centers, and wireless infrastructure. He serves as a Board Director at Gigapower, BlackRock’s joint venture with AT&T to develop a commercial wholesale open access platform on a state-of-the-art fiber network.

Rachel Stack joined Lightpath in August of 2024 as its Chief Financial Officer and oversees the Company’s corporate finance, including accounting, financial planning and budgeting, treasury, tax and internal audit.  In addition, she is responsible for corporate development, strategy and capital markets planning and execution.  Prior to Lightpath, she served as the Chief Financial Officer of Cologix from 2020 to 2024.  Cologix is a data center company that owns and operates more than 40 data centers in North America.  During her time at Cologix, Rachel was responsible for four acquisitions, including one acquisition which enabled Cologix’s presence in Silicon Valley.  Ms. Stack led the Company’s inaugural US Asset Backed Securitization (ABS) in December 2021, and the industry’s first Canadian data center ABS in February 2022. In April 2022, Cologix completed a recapitalization that valued the Company at approximately $5 billion.  Following the Company’s recapitalization, Ms. Stack was responsible for the capital spend related to Cologix’s $1BN capital deployment plan.  Prior to Cologix, Ms. Stack was the SVP, Corporate Development and Strategy at Zayo Group from 2016-2020.  During her time at Zayo, she was responsible for all corporate development and treasury activities, including the acquisitions of Electric Lightwave, Spread Networks, Optic Zoo and Neutral Path.  She also led the execution of the take private transaction by Digital Bridge and EQT in 2020.  In addition to corporate development, she was responsible for revenue strategy, corporate real estate, compensation and ESG.  Prior to Zayo, Ms. Stack was an investment banker at RBC Capital Markets focusing on the data infrastructure and fiber industries.  Ms. Stack received her BA from Columbia University and her MBA from Columbia Business School.   She enjoys running and traveling with her husband and two daughters.

Ajit Pai is the President and Chief Executive Officer of CTIA – The Wireless Association, the leading trade organization representing the U.S. wireless communications industry. Appointed to the role in April 2024, Pai now leads CTIA at a pivotal time for the sector, working to ensure that America remains at the forefront of global wireless innovation and investment. In his capacity as President and CEO, he champions policies that accelerate the deployment of next-generation wireless infrastructure, expand access to spectrum, strengthen national and economic security, and support the millions of American jobs tied to the wireless ecosystem. Under his leadership, CTIA continues to be the principal voice for wireless carriers, equipment manufacturers, and app and content developers across the country.

In addition to his role at CTIA, Pai is also a Partner at Searchlight Capital Partners, a global private investment firm with deep expertise in technology, media, and telecommunications. Since joining the firm in 2021, he has brought his policy acumen, regulatory insights, and industry experience to Searchlight’s investment strategy, helping guide the firm’s engagement with innovative companies across the digital infrastructure landscape. His dual leadership roles reflect his rare ability to operate at the highest levels of both public policy and private enterprise.

Pai’s career is distinguished by nearly a decade of senior leadership at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). From 2017 to 2021, he served as FCC Chairman, having been appointed to the post by President Donald Trump. As Chairman, Pai implemented a broad policy agenda focused on modernizing outdated regulations, expanding broadband access, and advancing U.S. leadership in 5G, Open RAN, Wi-Fi 6, and other emerging technologies. His tenure was marked by major initiatives to close the digital divide, streamline infrastructure deployment, protect consumers and national security, and increase transparency and accountability at the agency.

Pai originally joined the FCC in 2012 as a Commissioner, appointed by President Barack Obama and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. His contributions during that period helped lay the groundwork for several of the reforms he later advanced as Chairman.

Before his time at the FCC, Pai held senior positions in the public and private sectors. He served at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, the U.S. Senate as Chief Counsel to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, and the FCC’s Office of General Counsel. He was also Associate General Counsel at Verizon and later became a partner at the law firm Jenner & Block, where he focused on communications and appellate law.

Pai earned his A.B., with honors, from Harvard University and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. He currently serves on the boards of several portfolio companies and continues to be an influential voice in public policy, business, and technology.

Through his leadership at CTIA and Searchlight Capital Partners, Ajit Pai is uniquely positioned at the intersection of innovation, investment, and policy—advancing the future of connectivity both in the U.S. and globally.

Eric Wittleder is a Managing Director in Brookfield’s Infrastructure Group. In this role, he is responsible for infrastructure investment activities for the Brookfield Infrastructure Debt Fund, in the Americas and supports the oversight of the underwriting of global credit investment opportunities.   

Prior to joining Brookfield in 2017, Mr. Wittleder worked for Société Générale in its energy and project finance group, advising on and raising debt capital for energy and infrastructure projects in the U.S. and Latin America. Mr. Wittleder previously held positions at SMBC, Banco Espirito Santo and WestLB. While at SMBC, Mr. Wittleder was seconded for two years to Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional in Bogota, Colombia to build out its project finance unit and support the country’s infrastructure program.     

Mr. Wittleder holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Georgetown University.  

Bob Thompson is the Founder & CEO of Underline, a company focused on deploying intelligent infrastructure for U.S. communities. Prior to founding Underline, Bob served as SVP & Head of Corporate Finance Solutions for Guardian Life, where his mandate ranged from Treasury & Liquidity Risk Management, to Capital Markets Strategy and Balance Sheet Optimization, Corporate Development, M&A, and Strategic Investments. During his tenure with Guardian, Bob led a number of strategic initiatives, including serving as Chairman and President of Guardian Investor Services and Guardian Strategic Ventures. Over the years, Bob has led multiple efforts including acting as Head of Capital Markets for a boutique insurance bank and Group Head of the Special Transactions Group at CIBC World Markets, working with the UBS Global Structured Products Group, and executing various first-of-their-kind derivative/concentrated risk transactions. In 2009, Bob and his wife founded One Life Missions, operating in the U.S. and internationally; as a result, Bob has worked in various missions and relief capacities in the U.S., Haiti, and Guatemala. Bob attended Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, earning a Bachelors in Science of Foreign Service.

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Sam is responsible for digital infrastructure principal investing in the Americas for the Infrastructure and Energy Capital (“IEC”) group of Macquarie Capital. IEC has a flexible mandate to invest Macquarie’s balance sheet into equity investments (control, co-control and structured minority positions). The Digital Infrastructure team has a track record of investing across data centers, residential and commercial fiber, towers and other adjacent sectors.

Matthew DeNezza brings decades of financial and strategic leadership experience to Crusoe. Matt is a key leader for Crusoe as it finances and builds a new paradigm of ESG-forward energy and computing services. While with Crusoe, Matt has held key roles in more than $1 billion of fundraising with venture, project, and credit capital investors.

Prior to joining Crusoe, Matt served as the CFO of Meritage Midstream, a private equity-sponsored midstream firm operating in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. Previous to his leadership role at Meritage, Matt was the CFO of Eclipse Resources, an early entrant into the Utica shale play. Matt joined Eclipse in 2013 where he and the senior management team rapidly grew the business, took the company public in 2014 and eventually merged the business to create Montage Resources Corp. in 2018.

Matt spent a significant amount of his early finance career as an energy-focused investment banker, primarily at Deutsche Bank in New York City, where he worked from 2002 to 2013 serving both privately held and publicly traded upstream, midstream and downstream firms in conducting billions of dollars of mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt transactions.

Prior to Deutsche Bank, Matt served his country in the U.S. Navy as a commissioned officer assigned to the USS Boise, a fast-attack nuclear submarine, from 1993 to 1998. He holds a bachelor’s of arts from Harvard University and a master’s of business administration from NYU Stern School of Business.  He currently lives in Denver, Colorado, with his wife and children.

Andrew is a Senior Managing Director with Stonepeak and is Head of Communications, Global ex-Europe. Prior to joining Stonepeak, Andrew worked at Pacific Equity Partners and McKinsey & Company.

Andrew received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, as well as a Bachelor of Economics (First Class Honors and University Medal) and Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honors) from the University of Sydney.

Roger has been serving as UTOPIA Fiber’s Executive Director & CEO since 2016 and has been a technology management professional in telecommunications and information technology for over 20 years. Roger has been designing and building networks throughout his career in various roles including Vice President of Engineering for Vivint Wireless, CTO for UTOPIA Fiber, Network Engineer for iProvo, and Network Product Manager for Brigham Young University. Roger earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Information Technology from Brigham Young University.

Emily Goergen Azer is a Director of GI Partners.  She currently serves on the boards of DRFortress and Rise Broadband.  Prior to joining GI Partners, Mrs. Azer was a Vice President at Stonepeak Partners in New York where she focused on infrastructure investments in the Communications sector.  Earlier in her carrier, Emily worked in the North America Private Equity and Global Infrastructure groups at KKR in New York and was an investment banking analyst with the Blackstone Group in New York.  Mrs. Azer received her B.S. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Andrew Peisch joined KKR in 2014 and focuses on investing in digital infrastructure businesses and assets. He has been involved with several of KKR’s Infrastructure investments, including CyrusOne, MetroNet, Global Technical Realty and Altitude Aviation. Prior to KKR, Mr. Peisch worked at Clayton Dubilier & Rice and Deutsche Bank. He holds a degree in economics from Dartmouth College. 

As President of STACK Americas, Matt VanderZanden leads STACK's efforts to deliver scalable, client-focused digital infrastructure solutions. In this role, Matt is responsible for commercial, financial, development, design and construction, facility management, power, and legal operations, ensuring the company continues to meet the evolving needs of hyperscale and enterprise clients. Since joining STACK, he has played a critical role in driving strategic initiatives and fostering responsible growth, positioning STACK as a trusted global leader in the digital infrastructure industry. Before STACK, Matt spent nearly a decade at Meta, where he was Director of Global Data Center Site Selection, responsible for scaling the company's global infrastructure footprint. Earlier in his career, Matt practiced real estate law at the international law firm Paul Hastings. He holds a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and a B.S. in Economics, with distinction, from the University of Washington.

Raul Martynek is CEO of DataBank and a 25+ year veteran of the telecom and Internet Infrastructure sector. Prior to DataBank, Raul served as CEO of data center operator Net Access (acquired by Cologix), as CEO of global managed hosting company Voxel (acquired by Internap), as the Chief Restructuring Officer of fiber carrier Smart Telecom (acquired by Digiweb) and CEO of telecom and Internet provider InfoHighway (acquired by Broadview Networks).  Raul has served in industry-related asset management roles, most recently as a Senior Advisor for Digital Bridge Holdings LLC (which invested in DataBank), and prior to that, as a Senior Advisor at Plainfield Asset Management, a $4B hedge fund that evaluated investment opportunities in the telecommunications and Internet sector. Mr. Martynek earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Binghamton University and received a Master Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.

Serving as chief financial officer at Vantage Data Centers, Sharif Metwalli is responsible for driving Vantage’s strategic financing solutions for organic growth and market expansion globally. He oversees finance, accounting, financial planning and analysis, capital markets planning, and corporate administration. With more than 20 years of experience, Metwalli is essential to accelerating Vantage’s growth, profitability and shareholder value.

With expertise in navigating strong capital markets and complex M&A transactions, Metwalli has been instrumental in the execution of Vantage’s growth and was the architect of the successful 10-figure debt and equity financing needed to fund the development of multiple hyperscale data center campuses in different markets simultaneously.

Prior to joining Vantage, Metwalli served as managing director at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey with clients in the data center and communications sectors. He focused on executing debt and equity financings as well as M&A transactions totaling over $37.5 billion in value between 2015 and 2017. Before SunTrust, Metwalli served as a director at Wells Fargo Securities.

Metwalli received his MBA from Duke University and his Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Michigan. He also holds Series 7 and Series 63 licenses.

Mr. Lukaj has nearly 30 years of investment banking experience having originated, structured and executed hundreds of deals totaling over $100 billion of transaction value. Mr. Lukaj is a founder and Managing Partner of Bank Street and aspires, with his colleagues, to create a premier investment banking franchise focused on growth sectors of the global economy. Mr. Lukaj has executed transactions over the course of his successful investment banking career, ranging in variety from mergers and acquisitions, underwriting of debt, equity and derivative securities, restructurings, exclusive sales, and other financial advisory mandates. Although heavily weighted towards the Media, Communications and Technology industries, he also has a very broad industry experience in Industrial, Consumer, Retailing, Energy, Aerospace, Specialty Finance, Real Estate and Natural Resources arenas.

Having held top leadership positions at Vantage Data Centers, Digital Reality Trust and CoreSite, James has been at the forefront of developing the practices of modularization, campus scale and integration of power assets, and ultra-efficient application of green power technologies and controls. Companies and investments that James has directly led have generated profits for limited partners in excess of $1B.

James combines an innate understanding of real estate, capital markets, technology, and people to found and lead profitable enterprises focused on sustainability. James founded and served as CEO and CTO of Vantage Data Centers and had full enterprise-wide responsibility for Portfolio Management and Technical Operations at Digital Realty Trust, one of the largest publicly traded data center providers. He also founded CoreSite, establishing a foundation for network access management and standardizations further adopted throughout the data center industry. Earlier in his career, James founded a data center joint venture with Ross Perot, Jr., pioneering digital infrastructure that preceded hyperscale development in Dallas Ft. Worth. James has also held the role of Vice President of ProLogis, the world’s largest publicly traded integrated operator of industrial and logistics facilities globally.

James founded CleanArc Data Centers to be an innovative provider of first-of-its-kind, sustainability-focused data center development and operation solutions. James holds a BS in Chemical & Materials Engineering from California State Polytechnic University and an MBA in Finance and Real Estate from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Philip Cusick, CFO at Tillman Fiber, has extensive experience in telecom services and equipment. He’s held roles at J.P. Morgan, Bear Stearns, and Macquarie Group, and was recognized in Institutional Investor and The Wall Street Journal surveys. He holds an MBA from NYU, a B.S. from the University of Michigan, and a CFA designation.

Jamie Earp is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Ubiquity where he is responsible for all aspects of investment processes, operational excellence and value creation strategies across the platform.

Previously, Jamie served as the Managing Partner of RCP Holdings, a communications infrastructure company. He also co-founded Branch Communications, an infrastructure development company, raising and deploying over $100M in equity and debt. Jamie was integral in growing the company’s operations to 900+ owned and managed assets in 38 U.S. states and Puerto Rico, with combined leasing and services revenues topping $20M and a combined enterprise value of over $150M.

Prior to co-founding Branch Communications, Jamie worked in a wide range of management, financial, business development and government relations capacities for various business organizations. This included serving as Vice President of Public Affairs & Business Development for the NC Chamber, working with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and advising a variety of associations and political advocacy organizations.

Jamie earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a JD from George Mason University School of Law and an MBA from UNC Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Brad Moline President, and CEO, founded ALLO Communications in 2003 in Imperial, Nebraska. ALLO is a telecommunications company offering FTTH in 44 cities across Nebraska, Colorado, Arizona, and Missouri totaling over 1.2+ million in population. In 2015, ALLO became a subsidiary of Nelnet (NYSE: NNI) further diversifying Nelnet’s revenue outside of education. In 2020, SDC Capital Partners, LLC, a private investment firm focused on IT and communications infrastructure, invested in ALLO. ALLO, and its investor group, share a commitment to providing an exceptional customer experience and world-class technology. 

Previously, Moline, held several senior positions with organizations across the U.S. before returning home to Nebraska with his wife to raise their family. Among those positions, Moline was the Senior Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer, and a driving force behind the exponential growth of Birch Telecom, Inc. in Kansas City. From 1994 to 1997 Moline took a large national transportation company public and was retained as a valued board member serving on the audit committee. Moline also serves on the board of his family’s grocery operations in Nebraska and Colorado. He holds a degree in business administration, with distinction, from the University of Nebraska and is formerly a certified public accountant with Ernest & Young.

Colby is a Managing Director in Investment Banking at TD Securities (TD). Before joining TD, he was at IHS Towers (IHS) where he was the EVP of Communications and Head of their U.S. Corporate Office. As a member of the executive leadership team, Colby at various times was responsible for the Commercial, Communications, ESG reporting, Investor Relations and M&A teams. Before joining IHS, Colby spent 12 years as a Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst specializing in the digital infrastructure and telecom services sectors at the investment bank Cowen. Colby was regarded as one of the leading analysts in digital infrastructure and was ranked in the top three of Institutional Investor’s annual sell-side poll in each of his last five years at Cowen. He began his career in equity research at Thomas Weisel Partners.

Quynh Tran is Deputy Head of Structured Finance, Americas at SMBC, with over 20 years of experience in the infrastructure sector, covering digital infrastructure, transportation, airports, water, power and social infrastructure. Quynh focuses on expanding SMBC’s infrastructure platform through serving the financing needs of sponsors and developers for investments in North American assets.

Quynh has led the build out of SMBC’s coverage of the digital infrastructure sector, with a focus on developing the liquidity pool for this asset class. SMBC is a leading bank in the sector, structuring transactions for greenfield development, portfolio financing, securitizations, JV financing and acquisition financing across product platforms.

Prior to SMBC, Quynh was an investment banker at Robertson Stephens where she specialized in the “e-tail” and “e-finance” sectors, providing M&A advisory, equity underwriting and equity private placements.

Quynh earned a BA from Columbia University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Kemal Hawa is a corporate partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Kemal represents many of the world’s largest private equity firms, infrastructure funds, real estate investors and lenders across a broad range of transactions in the digital infrastructure sector domestically and internationally, including mergers and acquisitions, investments, financing arrangements, joint ventures and development projects.

Kemal counsels clients in complex transactions across the digital infrastructure and telecommunications, media and technology industries. This includes many of the world’s largest data center operators, telecommunications carriers, tower companies, cloud providers, fiber providers, media companies, submarine cable operators, fintech companies, wireless and international carriers, internet service providers, satellite companies, equipment manufacturers and electric utilities.

In addition to M&A and financing transactions, Kemal represents companies in connection with the full spectrum of digital infrastructure transactions globally, including the negotiation of data center leases and colocation agreements, telecommunications master service agreements, licensing deals and other commercial transactions.

Brian Gingold is a partner in Weil's New York Private Equity practice. Brian has extensive experience representing private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in acquisitions and dispositions (both public and private), joint ventures, minority investments, recapitalizations and other complex corporate transactions. Brian has substantial experience in the infrastructure, energy, real estate, consumer, healthcare, life sciences and technology industries.

Brian has represented several leading private equity firms and their portfolio companies, including AMP Capital, Antin Infrastructure, Apollo Global Management/Apollo Infrastructure Partners, Blackstone, Centerbridge, CVC, J.C. Flowers, KKR, L Catterton Partners and Silver Lake, among others. He has also represented various public and private companies, as well as investment banks, on similar transactions.

Prior to joining Weil, Brian was a partner at an international law firm. Brian has written and spoken on numerous topics pertinent to private equity and mergers and acquisitions industries. He received his J.D., cum laude, from University of Michigan Law School, where he was a member of The Journal of Law Reform and winner of the Solomon Nadler Award for outstanding work related to commercial law, corporate law and securities regulation, as well as the Board Award for Excellence in Legal Writing and Oral Advocacy. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from University of Pennsylvania. 

Florestan Ferroux is Senior Manager, Infrastructure Financing at CDPQ. In this role, he is responsible for building strategic partnerships for the Infrastructure Financing portfolio. He also participates in the development and monitoring of the infrastructure financing strategy and the portfolio. 

Mr. Ferroux has nearly 15 years of experience in infrastructure structuring and financing. He has held several positions at La Caisse, most recently as Director, Transactions and Investments, at CDPQ Infra, where he contributed to the development of new sustainable mobility projects. Prior to joining CDPQ, he was Vice-President, Infrastructure Consulting, at EY, where he advised public authorities and private sector clients on the structure and financing of public-private partnerships.

Mr. Ferroux holds the CFA designation and a bachelor's degree in accounting from HEC Montréal.
 

Jack Waters has over 35 years' experience in the telecommunications and Internet industry. Currently, he is CEO of Intrepid Fiber Networks, a greenfield FTTH builder and operator sponsored by Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. He has held numerous positions in both executive business roles as well as engineering and operations roles. He has led construction projects for both terrestrial and subsea fiber networks totaling millions of fiber miles being deployed in North America, Europe, and Asia.  

Prior to Intrepid Fiber Networks, Jack was President of Zayo Networks and COO where he led day-today operations and helped the company transition from a public to private ownership. Prior to Zayo, Jack was CTO at Level 3 Communications, where he was one of the founding senior executives focused on global network technology, architecture, engineering, process, and security. 

Steven Messina is head of the Banking Group in Skadden’s New York office. He represents investment banks, commercial banks, private equity funds and corporations in connection with a wide range of U.S. and international syndicated and other corporate financing transactions, including acquisition financings, leveraged buyouts, bridge financings, investment grade financings, asset-based loans, infrastructure financings, mezzanine loans, corporate recapitalizations and debtor-in-possession financings.

Gaurav Juneja is Chief Operating Officer at Consolidated Communications and oversees the Fidium Fiber business including market development, product management, marketing, sales, call centers, customer experience, base management as well as field operations and Information Technology, which support the enterprise. Gaurav joined the Company in 2023 as President of Consolidated’s consumer and small business organization.

Prior to joining the Company, Juneja served as Executive Vice President & General Manager for Consumer at MetroNet, where he was responsible for building all consumer sales, marketing, product management, market expansion, MDU, customer care and sales operations. Juneja also held leadership positions at Rise Broadband, DISH Network and Arjay Group of Companies (Retailer for T-Mobile & Sprint), where he led consumer and SMB sales channels, field marketing and overall go-to-market strategies.

Gaurav has an MBA from Cornell University, Johnson Graduate School of Management and a B.A. degree from Trinity College.

Nirav Shah joined EQT Partners in December 2014.

Prior to joining EQT Partners, Nirav worked at the New York office of AMP Capital Investors, an infrastructure private equity firm focusing on investments in the energy, transportation and telecommunications sectors. Previously, Nirav worked as a private equity associate at Access Capital and as an analyst in the restructuring investment banking group at Rothschild, Inc both in New York.

Nirav holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and graduated with highest distinction.

Aman Mittal is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising clients with a focus on data center and broader digital infrastructure companies.

Aman has extensive investment banking experience advising data centers, tower, and fiber clients on a broad range of transactions, including buy-side and sell-side M&A, joint ventures, equity and debt capital raises, and other capital structure situations.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Aman held various investment banking roles at Evercore, and he was previously a strategy consultant at Bain & Company.

Aman holds Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronics & Communications from Delhi University, and an M.B.A. in Banking and Corporate Finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

DANIEL DAVIS has 25 years of global operations, strategy, finance, regulatory and legal leadership experience in telecom infrastructure, data center, cloud, medical device and biotechnology companies. Prior to retiring from CenturyLink in 2017 and founding Arcadian Infracom, Dan provided corporate strategy and finance advice to technology companies as well as private investors in the infrastructure space. 

At CenturyLink served in various legal, operational and corporate executive roles for nearly 15 years, most recently as its Vice President of Corporate Strategy. While at CenturyLink Mr. Davis was a core member of the M&A teams that acquired $30b of network, data center and software companies. Mr. Davis joined CenturyLink in 2003 after CenturyLink’s acquisition of LightCore, a long-haul fiber company where Dan was a founding executive.

Mr. Davis earned his B.A. degree in Political Science from The University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana (with significant coursework in mechanical engineering), his J.D. from St. Louis University and his Executive MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.

Patrick Fleury is the Chief Financial Officer of TeraWulf Inc., where he is responsible for directing and overseeing the financial activities of the Company, including investment of funds and additional capital for expansion. Mr. Fleury brings 24 years of finance experience, comprising of capital markets, principal investing, and advisory roles. Most recently, Mr. Fleury served as a founding member of the credit team at Platinum Equity, where he was responsible for public and private credit investments. Before that, he was a Managing Director at Blackstone’s global credit platform, GSO Capital Partners. Mr. Fleury began his career in the Global Energy & Power Investment Banking Group at Banc of America Securities, LLC.

Shawn Ronda focuses his practice on commercial real estate transactions and digital infrastructure transactions. Shawn guides clients through virtually all aspects of real estate acquisitions and dispositions, real estate and data center leasing, finance, and real estate development, with an emphasis on development and operations for data center, student housing, mixed-use, and retail projects in the Chicago area, throughout the United States, and beyond. Shawn regularly represents developers, operators, institutional clients, private equity companies, investors, and joint venture partners.

Shawn regularly advises clients on portfolio transactions across a wide variety of asset classes. He also advises clients with respect to the real estate and digital infrastructure related aspects of mergers and acquisitions, as well as joint ventures, regularly handling the negotiation of asset purchase agreements and merger documents, joint venture agreements, and the implementation of related due diligence strategies and activities.

Richard Knowlton is a Senior Advisor for PMP Strategy, with 30 years’ experience providing innovative approaches in the Technology, Media, and Telecom (TMT) sectors. Most recently, he held the role of Managing Director and Chairman of TMT Americas at Société Générale New York. While there, Richard spearheaded the development of a comprehensive TMT sector strategy, integrating large-cap coverage, financial sponsor engagement, digital infrastructure, M&A, securitization, and distribution.

Richard’s experience in digital infrastructure started with financing wireless and cable overbuilders. He structured and executed and helped syndicate a greenfield FTTH transaction with no minimum volume commitment, structured OpCo/HoldCo financings in metro enterprise fiber, and pioneered Société Générale's first datacenter transaction in the early 2000s.

Throughout his career, Richard delivered innovative approaches to complex financial transactions. He formed an internal joint venture with the infrastructure team to deliver groundbreaking hybrid financing structures for digital infrastructure, including data centers and fiber networks. His strategic insights were pivotal in executing the first successfully syndicated cell tower ground lease transaction and a multi-layer, investment-grade financing for digital cinema rollouts. His structures secured first-time issuer ratings with a focus on deconsolidation and insulated subsidiary status.

Richard holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Stanford University and a Master of Business Administration from Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business

Jeff Johnston is lead digital infrastructure economist in CoBank's Knowledge Exchange research division. He focuses on emerging technologies, business models, valuations, and M&A within the digital infrastructure market, providing strategic guidance to both internal and external stakeholders. 

Prior to joining CoBank in 2018, Mr. Johnston was an equity analyst covering the tech, media and telecom sectors. He has also held various senior management positions in the telecommunications industry. Mr. Johnston earned his bachelor's degree in business administration, accounting and finance from York University and he is also a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst ®) charterholder.

Dan Kennedy is currently the Executive Chairman of Ripple Fiber. Most recently, Dan was the President and CEO of Hyper Fiber, a FTTH company.  Dan is a seasoned professional with more than 35 years in the telecommunications industry. Dan has a vast career working with Fortune 500 companies along with building and operating several of his own. Dan cofounded i3 Broadband, operating as the President and CEO. Dan is also a veteran of the United States Army where he served 8 years. He was in the Gulf War as part of Operation Desert Storm whereby he received the Bronze Star Medal for his actions and valor. 

Mike Finley is CEO of Boingo Wireless and serves on the company’s board of directors. He is responsible for the company’s strategic direction and leadership deploying world-class converged networks. Prior to Boingo, Finley served as President of North America and Australia at Qualcomm. He has over three decades of experience in senior management roles in the telecommunications industry with Nextel, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Airtouch Cellular, Cellular One and McCaw Cellular. Mike currently serves on the board of the CTIA and the New York metropolitan area’s Regional Plan Association, as well as the board of the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment Commission and the Creighton University Board of Trustees. Finley received a B.S. and B.A. in marketing from Creighton University and is a member of the university’s Hall of Fame. He also attended the General Manager Program in Executive Education at Harvard Business School.  

Barry Goldstein is an accomplished global executive with more than 30 years of strategic leadership experience, including over 20 years in the hospitality sector. Widely recognized as a transformative leader, Barry excels at driving revenue growth and delivering measurable results by aligning sales, marketing, digital, and technology functions. His leadership is defined by a proven ability to navigate complex organizational change, foster influential relationships, elevate customer experiences, and consistently achieve strong financial outcomes.

Throughout his career, Barry has led organizational turnarounds by establishing clear strategic direction, enhancing operational performance, and leveraging innovation and technology to fuel sustainable growth. His forward-looking mindset has enabled companies to outperform in highly competitive and rapidly evolving markets.

Most recently, Barry served as CEO of Arch Amenities Group, a premier provider of amenity management and consulting services for residential and commercial real estate, hotels, resorts, and private clubs. He has also held senior executive positions at Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Starwood Hotels, Cisco Systems, and Panasonic. Barry holds a Bachelor of Science from Columbia University and is a graduate of the Executive Management Program at Harvard Business School.

As TierPoint’s President and CFO, Mary Meduski has broad responsibility for the corporate development and strategy, financial operations, accounting, information technology, and human resource functions, and is a member of the company's Board of Directors. She also serves as President and Chief Financial Officer of Cequel III, TierPoint's management company. Ms. Meduski has more than 35 years of financial and operating experience in the media, telecommunications and technology industries. 

Prior to TierPoint, Ms. Meduski served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Suddenlink Communications, a cable broadband provider serving residential and business customers in 17 states. She joined Suddenlink in 2006 and was named to that company's Board of Directors in 2012. 

Before joining Suddenlink, Ms. Meduski served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of AAT Communications Corp., the largest privately owned wireless tower company in the United States at the time. Prior to joining AAT, she was a Managing Director in the Media and Communications Investment Banking Groups of TD Securities and BankBoston Securities. 

Ms. Meduski has received a number of professional recognitions, including the cable industry's highest honor, the Distinguished Vanguard Award for Leadership. In addition, Ms. Meduski was named a Multichannel News Wonder Woman and was included on CableFAX's list of Most Powerful Women in Cable for 10 consecutive years. She served in several industry leadership roles, including Chair of the National Board for Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT). Ms. Meduski has been named among the St. Louis Business Journal's Most Influential Business Women. 

Ms. Meduski currently serves as Lead Independent Director of CableOne, Inc. She is also Chair of the Nomination and Governance Committee and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of CableOne, Inc. 

For Cornell University, her alma mater, Ms. Meduski is a member of the College of Arts & Sciences Advisory Council; the President's Council of Cornell Women (PCCW); the Cornell Campaign Cabinet; and National Chair of the Cornell Annual Funds. Ms. Meduski began her second term as a member of the Cornell University Board of Trustees on July 1, 2023, where she serves as Co-Chair of the Finance Committee and is a member of the Executive Committee, the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee, and the Development Committee.

Chris Vonderhaar is the President of Fleet Data Centers. Chris joined Fleet in 2024. He is responsible for data center development and operations. Chris brings more than 25 years of experience planning, building and operating digital infrastructure assets.

Chris is a member of the Fleet Investment Committee and a senior team member of Tract Capital.

Prior to joining Fleet, Chris was Vice President Demand and Supply Management for Google Cloud. He was responsible for Google’s Technical Infrastructure and Cloud server hardware capacity planning, supply chain, data center operations and supply chain operating system development.

From 2010-2023, Chris led several infrastructure planning, development and operations organizations for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Over his tenure, Chris led large, global multi-discipline engineering and operations teams that launched 30 new AWS regions and deployed more than 4 GW of data center capacity globally. As Vice President, AWS Global Data Centers, he led a team of 15,000 employees and had end-to-end accountability for the AWS global data center fleet including forecasting, planning, design, engineering, construction, operations, sustainability and community engagement, as well as procuring and managing all of AWS’ real estate, colocation and utility assets (energy, water, renewables). In addition, he launched and led AWS Infrastructure Workforce Development that hired ~40% of Data Center employees globally, including 53% diverse hires, over 4 years.

Chris’ relationships with several other members of the Tract Capital team date back to Level 3 Communications. While at Level 3, Chris held various IT, planning, build and operations roles during the buildout of Level 3’s global backbone and metro networks and as an operations leader serving transport, colocation, internet access and content distribution network customers.

John Wilson is in his first year as CFO of Sabey Data Centers. Prior to joining Sabey, John served as CFO for a private equity real estate firm based in Portland, Oregon. Previously, he held multiple senior positions at Intel. John has a track record for helping businesses achieve rapid growth and improve profitability and has been tasked with the same mandate at Sabey where he’ll leverage the company’s already strong foundation to continue growth. John earned his MBA from Purdue University and has a BA from Brigham Young University.  He currently lives with his wife Crystal in the Seattle, Washington area. 

Sachit Ahuja is Co-President of Tillman Global Holdings (TGH), an owner-operator of digital and energy infrastructure businesses. In this role, he is responsible for capital allocation, strategy, and mergers and acquisitions for TGH. Prior to being Co-President, Ahuja was a Managing Director at TGH where he was responsible for the firm’s strategy and investments. He joined TGH in 2015 and led the launch of US tower company, Tillman Infrastructure. He is a Co-Founder and Board Member of several TGH portfolio companies, including Tillman Infrastructure, Tillman Fiber, Tillman Digital Cities, Tillman Digital Gateway, and Tillman Logistics.

Previously, Ahuja worked at the Raine Group, a merchant bank focused on TMT, Sports and Entertainment. He also serves on the board of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum and is a Founding Trustee of Plaksha University. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics with concentrations in Management and Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Garrett Baker is the Global Co-Head of Telecom & Digital Infrastructure at Lazard, and a member of the North American Management Committee.

Mr. Baker has more than 25 years of experience advising TMT companies, having personally led more than 125 M&A transactions. He has specific expertise with broadband, telecom infrastructure, mobile and digital media companies.

Mr. Baker was named as a “Top 50 Dealmaker in North America” by Global M&A Network and one of the broadband industry’s top “40 Under 40″ executives by MultiChannel News. He advised Wave Broadband on its sale to Oak Hill and GI Partners, which was awarded “Deal of the Year” by M&A Advisor for TMT deals over $500 million. He is also a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO).

Prior to joining Lazard in 2016, Mr. Baker was President of Waller Capital Partners, where he led mergers and acquisitions for cable, telecom and digital media clients and managed day-to-day operations of the firm. He joined Waller Capital in 1998 and was named President in 2009. He began his career in the M&A Group at Bear Stearns. Mr. Baker graduated with honors from Wake Forest University with a BS in Analytical Finance.

Santhosh Rao joined MUFG in 2022 to lead the firm’s Digital Infrastructure efforts and is based in New York. He has over 20 years of TMT advisory experience including capital raising, structured financing and M&A across Data centers, Fiber, Towers and Cable sectors. Previously, Santhosh was Head of Telecoms for the Americas at Natixis. Prior to Natixis, Santhosh worked for nine years within the Global TMT Investment Banking group at Deutsche Bank in NY.

Santhosh has advised clients across a broad range of products including M&A, structured credit, debt and equity financings. 

Santhosh received an MBA with Honors from Columbia Business School, NY and a Bachelors’ degree in Electronics and Telecom Engineering from the University of Mysore, India where he graduated with distinction.

Casey is a founding partner at Juvo Energy, where she focuses on developing sites for large load. She has a long history running development companies for energy (wind, solar, natural gas, battery storage) projects. At various points in her career, she has run divisions for various tradinghouses and energy companies, including stints for such companies as Caerus Commodities, Engie, and Sumitomo. Her roles have spanned development, construction, origination and commodities trading. Her extensive experience has allowed her and her team at Juvo to amass a 10GW portfolio of data centers sites across the U.S. Juvo’s rapid growth has garnered it much success in both selling sites and partnering with long term owners to build out the data centers and powered land.

With a background in real estate and corporate development, Paul has worked in the mobile tower industry for over 25 years. Paul was the founder and CEO of Neutral Connect Networks and Acquired Connectivity Wireless in 2019, and company was rebranded to Connectivity Wireless in 2019 Previously, he served as President of Corporate Development at Vertical Bridge, and CEO of CiG Wireless Corporation before successfully merging CiG into Vertical Bridge. Prior to CiG, he founded and led TCP Communications as its CEO, bringing it to a successful sale with a portfolio of over 250 towers. In the early years, he worked for SBA Communication as Director of Acquisitions. As an entrepreneur and business leader, Paul has successfully built and developed numerous businesses in the real estate and retail arena before making the wireless industry the focus of his career.

Luke Laumann is a partner in Weil’s Private Equity practice and is based in New York. Luke represents domestic and international private equity sponsors and strategic clients in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private investments in a broad range of industries.

Luke was recognized as a “Next Generation Partner” for Private Equity Buyouts by Legal 500 US in 2023 and a “Leading Lawyer” for Private Equity in the United States by Euromoney in 2022. He was also the recipient of the "40 under 40 Emerging Leaders Award" by The M&A Advisor in 2018.

Jonathan Bullock is the Chief Strategy Officer at Hotwire Communications where he leads corporate strategy, development and finance, strategic partnerships, M&A, and government affairs. With over 18 years of experience in the telecommunications and technology sectors, Jonathan drives Hotwire’s strategic vision.

Mark Morrison is a Managing Director with Truist and leads Digital Infrastructure Investment Banking coverage within the firm’s TMT group. Prior to Truist, Mark was with RBC Capital Markets for 12 years where he provided advisory and capital markets services to companies across the Digital Infrastructure space.

Mark has robust experience advising public and private operators and investors on a wide range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, minority investments, private and public capital raises, valuations and restructurings.

Mark received a Master of Business Administration from NYU Stern School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Richmond.

Laura Fazio joined Huntington Bank & Securities Company in February 2021 as a cornerstone member of the team building out a new national Technology & Telecom industry vertical.  Fazio came to Huntington from Santander Bank, where she led the buildout of their commercial bank’s TMT business since 2018.  Fazio came to Santander from Twin Oaks Advisors, a boutique advisory firm she founded in 2010.  As the managing principal she advised small cap and middle market technology, media & telecom companies seeking strategic advisory solutions as well as structured capital investments from institutional investors.  Prior to Twin Oaks Advisors, she headed Aladdin Capital Management’s TMT advisory business after leading Deutsche Bank’s media & entertainment  structured products arm.  Fazio spent 9 years at Dresdner Kleinwort(now Commerzbank), running TMT capital markets and corporate finance  where she led over $5bn in structured debt and equity transactions for the TMT industry. 

Fazio earned a BA from American University and a MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management (now part of Arizona State University). 

Chris Hickman is the Chief Executive Officer of Tillman Infrastructure, a leading developer, owner, and operator of connectivity infrastructure. Since its inception in 2016, Tillman Infrastructure has grown to be one of the most prolific tower builders in the U.S., having built over two thousand macro tower sites and several thousand in development. 

Before joining Tillman Infrastructure, Chris spent over five years at Crown Castle in various leadership roles, including Vice President of Investor Relations and Capital Markets and Vice President of Finance - Towers.

Chris is a graduate of Texas A&M University with a degree in finance and spent the first 15 years of his career in finance, strategy and corporate development roles across the energy sector. Notably, he led Noble Energy through the initial public offering of its midstream infrastructure business as Vice President of Investor Relations and built the finance organization for a multi-billion dollar joint venture.

Saidal Mohmand is a seasoned finance executive who currently serves as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Before taking on the role of CFO, Mr. Mohmand was the EVP of Finance, where he led the Company’s financial strategy and capital market initiatives. In addition to his role as CFO, he serves as the Director of Research at 272 Capital LP, an investment advisory firm specializing in technology hardware, software, and service companies. Earlier in his career, he held the same position at GrizzlyRock Capital, a value-oriented long/short fund based in Chicago. He earned his B.B.A. in Finance and Accountancy from Western Michigan University.

Tony Peduto is the CEO of Grande Towers which was founded in 2023. Prior to Grande Towers, he founded CTI Towers in 2011, and led the company through two successful exits during his tenure. Peduto also served as COO of Optasite prior to its sale to SBA in 2008.the start of his tower career was as a Vice President for American Tower. Prior to coming to the tower industry, Tony had a twenty-year career in the cable television, which made him uniquely qualified to operate towers formerly owned by cable operators as he did at CTI and now at Grande.

James Henry has been actively involved in the internet and telecom industry for more than two decades. His extensive and multi-disciplined knowledge of the industry is the product of his roles as an equity research analyst following the telecom and internet services sectors, as a portfolio manager responsible for investing in the telecom and media sectors, and as an investment banker executing capital markets and strategic transactions.

Mr. Henry co-founded Bank Street Holdings LLC and has been a driving force in the growth and development of the firm's investment banking practice. Prior to Bank Street, Mr. Henry was a Senior Managing Director at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. where he served as the senior research analyst responsible for following the telecommunications and internet service and infrastructure sectors. Mr. Henry led a team of 5 dedicated associates and he was named the youngest Senior Managing Director in the history of Bear Stearns in 1999.

Mr. Henry's work and industry expertise has been broadly recognized. He was ranked 2nd by Institutional Investor Magazine's All American Research Team Survey in 1999 and 2000. Mr. Henry has spoken at major telecom industry conferences, testified before Congress on telecom industry matters, and been quoted in national publications such as Business Week and The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Henry has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Connecticut College.

As Executive Vice President, Finance, Julie Brewer leads all aspects of EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure’s finance organization, including strategic financial planning, capital markets, accounting, procurement, treasury, and investor relations. Julie brings to EdgeCore deep experience in finance and asset management within the data center industry. Prior to joining EdgeCore, Julie held several roles at CoreSite Realty Corporation, most recently as Vice President, General Management, of CoreSite’s Los Angeles and Denver markets. In that role, Julie was accountable for revenue generation, profitability, strategic planning, and capital allocation across a $2 billion portfolio of data center assets. Before joining the general management team, Julie was a member of CoreSite’s finance organization, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, capital structure, investor reporting, and underwriting.

Julie earned her BS in Commerce from the University of Virginia.

Jerry Stapp is a Managing Director of GI Partners. He currently serves on the boards of Orbcomm, Bluepeak, and BusPatrol. Prior to joining GI Partners, Mr. Stapp was a Principal at Siris Capital in New York where he was focused on private equity investments in the Technology and Telecom sectors. Earlier in his career, he worked in private equity at Veritas Capital and in investment banking at Evercore Partners.

Adam Post is the SVP of Finance and Corporate Development at CoreSite and brings more than 20 years of real estate experience to the company. In his role, Mr. Post is responsible for the execution of the company’s financial planning and strategy, acquisitions, power and energy solutions, and procurement. Mr. Post joined CoreSite in 2014 overseeing its financial planning and analysis functions and as Treasurer with responsibility for the company’s capitalization strategy, capital markets transactions, and treasury management.

Prior to joining CoreSite, Mr. Post spent nine years at Prologis where he helped lead global strategic finance initiatives and held various other roles within the finance and accounting teams. Mr. Post holds an M.B.A. from the University of Denver and a B.S.B.A. in Finance from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Mr. Hadar, CFA, is a seasoned finance, corporate development and alternative investments executive driving all aspects of ECL’s financing strategy and corporate development efforts including cultivating partnerships across the hydrogen ecosystem. ECL is the first off-grid, hydrogen-powered, highly efficient, modular data center-as a-service provider. Prior to joining ECL, Uzi led investment strategies as a private equity sponsor and advisor mainly across the TMT space, as well as having a background in investment banking. Throughout his career, Uzi advised and collaborated with investors and companies on strategic, corporate development and financial initiatives, and has broad industry relationships with emerging growth companies, industry leaders, alternative investment firms, family offices, institutional and strategic investors. 

Mr. Hadar is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and earned his MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.

Scott D. Willis, a recognized leader in the telecommunications industry with more than 30 years of executive experience is the President and CEO of DartPoints, a leading provider of Edge Colocation Data Centers.  Previously, he served as the President and CEO of Zinwave, a leading global provider of in-building wireless solutions. After joining the company, he immediately made an impact by resetting Zinwave’s global strategy and repositioning its integrated marketing efforts, priming the company for aggressive growth. Under Scott’s direction, Zinwave relocated its corporate headquarters to Dallas and established the company as the global leader in distributed network solutions. Scott’s strategic leadership helped solidify the company’s reputation as the only fiber infrastructure, future-ready, full-spectrum in-building DAS solution in not just North America but also the rest of the world. During a time of change in spectrum and technology, Scott successfully lead the charge to innovate new products and solutions and change business models, resulting in an industry transformation toward a cost-effective solution to the indoor cellular coverage problem.

Over the course of his career, Scott has served in senior leadership roles at respected wireless telecommunications technology companies including Ericsson, Nokia, BellSouth and Sprint. With a passion for creating customer relationships and a keen ability to lead global initiatives in finance, operations and business development, Scott has the right balance between technical expertise, strategic vision and operational leadership that is required to be a global leader in the industry.

Before Zinwave, Scott served as Executive Vice President, Chief Sales and Marketing Executive for Goodman Networks, a privately held leader in the design, engineering, deployment and integration of wireless communications networks. In his role, he was responsible for all commercial strategy, sales and marketing and lead the growth of the organization from $400 million annually to $1.2 billion in revenue. Prior to Goodman, Scott was Executive Vice President and General Manager at Ericsson, where he oversaw more than 6,500 personnel across the U.S. and Latin America and helped grow annual revenue from $5 million to more than $3.5 billion in five years. Previously, Scott served as Vice President and General Manager at Nokia Networks, where he grew the business to $1.5 billion in revenue in less than 3 years and established Nokia Networks as a market leader in North America.

Scott is active in the business and civic community.  He currently serves on the board of directors of DartPoints and as an advisory board member for Aerwave.  In addition to being a past member of the board of directors for Zinwave, he has also served as a past board member of the Dallas Regional Chamber Board of Advisors, the Kansas City Area Development Council, NextLevel Corporation, Somera Communications (advisory board member), Raleigh, NC Triangle United Way, The North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance and as an advisory board member of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA).

 Scott graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor’s degree in finance and he received his Master of Business Administration degree from Wake Forest University. He has also received continuing executive education certificates from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

Scott makes his home in Dallas, where he lives with his wife Kelley, and children Savannah and Chance.

Robert Gutman is SVP Capital Markets and Investor Relations at Compass Datacenters, which designs and constructs data centers for some of the world’s largest hyperscalers and cloud providers on campuses across the globe. In this role, Gutman directs Compass’ capital strategy and helps steer the company’s financial strategy to support its global growth. He played an instrumental role in negotiating Compass’ recent acquisition by Brookfield Infrastructure Partners’ and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan acquired Compass Datacenters for more than $5 billion. Gutman has more than a decade of experience in the infrastructure industry, including his roles as Director, Equity Research at both Guggenheim Partners and Evercore ISI. He earned his B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College and his M.A. in Finance from London Business School.Robert Gutman is SVP Capital Markets and Investor Relations at Compass Datacenters, which designs and constructs data centers for some of the world’s largest hyperscalers and cloud providers on campuses across the globe. In this role, Gutman directs Compass’ capital strategy and helps steer the company’s financial strategy to support its global growth. He played an instrumental role in negotiating Compass’ recent acquisition by Brookfield Infrastructure Partners’ and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan acquired Compass Datacenters for more than $5 billion. Gutman has more than a decade of experience in the infrastructure industry, including his roles as Director, Equity Research at both Guggenheim Partners and Evercore ISI. He earned his B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College and his M.A. in Finance from London Business School.

Avner Papouchado has been the guiding force behind Serverfarm since its inception 10+ years ago. As the Founder and CEO of Serverfarm, with 25 years in the industry, Papouchado has been an instrumental force in the internet infrastructure market with his innovative approach to data center sustainability and growth. Papouchado’s formula of modernizing existing data center facilities using Serverfarm’s Data Center Management as a Service (DMaaS) approach has proved to be a sustainable, economical way to meet the high capacity demands of customers. Instead of simply pushing space and power, Papouchado has been intentional about building data center solutions that get at the heart of the challenges enterprises face- including automating IT management to focus on innovation, adhering to sustainability measures and level setting balance sheets.

As Red Sea Group’s North American CEO since 1993 and an active member of the executive management team responsible for the company’s worldwide investment strategy, Papouchado has a proven track record of successful real estate investments. Bringing this real estate acumen together with his strategic approach in the data center sector has propelled him as a thought leader in the industry and helped enterprises accelerate their digital transformation through Serverfarm’s InCommand services.

Papouchado received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the New School for Social Research in New York. He is a certified pilot and avid surfer.

Kanishk is a leader in the Americas Digital Infrastructure practice at AlixPartners. Kanishk has over 12 years of experience working in M&A and operational improvement advisory.  

Kanishk has supported clients across the transaction lifecycle—from diligence through integration— driving synergies, developing go-to-market strategies, and implementing EBITDA and cash flow improvement initiatives. He specializes in complex consolidation efforts and unlocking long-term value in capital-intensive environments. 

Kanishk has also authored multiple papers on the key drivers of fiber M&A, industry consolidation trends, and strategies for improving fiber monetization. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Waterloo. 

Haynes’ experience stretches over eleven years in the data center sector, both domestically and internationally. Mr. Strader leads site selection, capital management and customer management for Skybox Datacenters. His work with clients and capital partners across the industry has led to some of largest data center transactions in the US. Haynes has represented tenants, buyers and sellers on more than 210 data center transactions totaling more than $5B in total value and has become renowned for his mission critical market expertise. Haynes previously served as Vice President in the CBRE Data Center Solutions platform. Mr. Strader is a graduate of Southern Methodist University and serves on the SMU Dedman College Executive Board, 21st Century Council, and the SMU Folsom Institute Board.

Rafael Bomeny serves as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at ODATA.

He brings over eight years of experience in financial management, infrastructure investment, and business development from his previous roles at Patria Investments and Itaú BBA. He has also led the development of new investment theses and M&A opportunities.

Rafael holds a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of São Paulo (USP) and a Master's degree in Management, Economics, and Industrial Engineering from Politecnico di Milano.

As Senior Vice President, Matt plays a critical role in identifying data center growth opportunities, market trends, and operator partnerships while optimizing asset performance and maximizing the value of PowerHouse Data Center investments through strategic planning, effective management, and development initiatives.

At his core, Matt’s greatest skills lie in navigating the tradeoffs between growth and yield, short-term and long-term needs, and the different phases of a data center lifecycle. Matt’s approach involves building, developing, and inspiring data-driven teams that prioritize customer success, continuous improvement, and inclusivity. His development acumen offers critical prescience, enabling efficient deployments with immediate power and connectivity with the capacity to grow unimpeded to gigawatt-scale.

He leverages over 20 years of strategic management expertise in critical international and domestic markets, most recently serving as global head of asset management at Equinix, where he oversaw rapid growth in an $8 billion portfolio while maintaining ROIC (Return on Invested Capital) of +26%. By leveraging this experience, Matt supports PowerHouse’s extraordinary growth strategy, identifying and developing the most advantageous sites to help define the future of hyperscalers and large operators’ most advanced use cases.

Matt holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of North Carolina at Asheville and a Master of Science in Management from the London School of Economics & Political Science in the UK.

Melissa D. Kalka is an M&A/private equity partner in the Dallas office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Melissa's practice focuses on representing private equity firms and public and private companies in connection with domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, joint ventures and other complex equity holder arrangements. She also represents clients in connection with general corporate governance matters. She has worked with clients in a wide range of industries and sectors, including consumer products, healthcare, manufacturing, technology and infrastructure with extensive experience advising on complex data center and digital infrastructure transactions.

Chris is the founder and CEO of Ascenty Data Centers, the largest data center company in Latin America. Prior to Ascenty, he was the founder and CEO of Vivax, the second largest cable television company in Brazil. Chris took Vivax public and then subsequently sold the company for $1.2 billion. Prior to Vivax, Chris was the CEO of Voyager Inc., an Internet company that went public in 1999 on the NASDAQ stock exchange and subsequently acquired in 2000 for $550 million. Chris holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Maine and an MBA from Harvard University.

Andrej leads the Americas Digital Infrastructure practice at AlixPartners. He has extensive experience as both an internal manager and consultant across various functions in North America and Europe. 

Andrej focuses on spearheading large-scale Digital Infrastructure projects and helping clients navigate operational and strategic challenges. He leverages new technologies to accelerate transformations, improving operational and organizational performance.

Andrej is a recognized expert in the telecommunications industry—particularly around fiber optics, cloud-based communication, sub-sea fiber networks, wireless network strategy, and CLEC transformation. He is dedicated to helping companies work through investment challenges—particularly in fiber—and has authored multiple papers on upcoming consolidation in the U.S. fiber market.

Prior to joining AlixPartners, Andrej held roles at Deutsche Telekom and T-Systems where he worked in the transformation office, leading programs for nationally affiliated telcos. He was instrumental in establishing what was at the time the largest European wireless telco joint venture, with €8 billion in revenues.

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Ed, located in the Delray Beach, FL office, has been involved in the wireless services industry and the wireless infrastructure industry for more than twenty-five years. He is experienced in all aspects of the wireless industry including tower ownership, colocations, tower development, tower and site management, and land and tower acquisitions. Prior to founding Diamond in 2006, Mr. Farscht was a senior executive at AAT Communications. Prior to AAT, he was a Managing Director at Bear Stearns and held positions with CIBC World Markets and Citibank in investment banking with a focus on principal transactions. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and received his MBA at Columbia Business School. Currently, Mr. Farscht is a Board Member of the Wireless Infrastructure Association (WIA)

Mr. Borchetta joined Harrison Street in 2013. As a Managing Director in the Transactions group, he is responsible for the sourcing, analyzing, and closing of transactions and venture relationships with a focus on healthcare and digital real estate and infrastructure assets. During his tenure at Harrison Street, Mr. Borchetta has acquired or developed over $15.0 billion of data center, medical office, senior housing, and life science assets on behalf of the firm’s discretionary funds.

This includes over $6 billion in the digital real estate and infrastructure segments where he has led transactions activity in the sector for the company. As a result of the efforts in the space, Harrison Street was recognized by PERE in the digital category as Data Center Investor of the year for 2022 and 2023 and Mr. Borchetta was recognized by the Tech Capital Global Awards for 2024 as the Under 35 Digital Infrastructure Finance Talent Award finalist. Harrison Street was also recognized as Global Alternatives Investor of the Year during those same periods.

Mr. Borchetta holds a BA from Northwestern University, with a major in Economics, minor in Business Institutions, and a certificate in Energy and Sustainability. He presently serves as an alumni member for the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility to Northwestern University’s endowment. He has also completed programs sponsored by the Fulbright Commission and Department of Energy, including the Fulbright UK Summer Institute and the Summer Institute on Sustainability and Energy, respectively.

Ricardo Zubieta is CFO of QMC Telecom. Previously, he spent 20 years in investment banking, advising a broad range of technology, media and telecommunications clients on mergers and acquisitions, financing and stock offerings. Most recently, he was Managing Director at Barclay's Global Technology, Media and Telecom Group, where he was Head of Telecom M&A. Ricardo began his career at Lehman Brother's Telecom and Media Group. He graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile with an engineering degree and has an MBA from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.

Chase leads and manages all aspects of finance and accounting at Flō Networks. He is also responsible for identifying, developing and analyzing organic and inorganic opportunities, as well as, developing and maintaining relationships with strategic and financial partners.

Prior to Flō Networks, Chase was an investment professional at MC Credit Partners (“MCCP”), a middle-market credit fund. While at MCCP, Chase financed Flō’s acquisition of XC Networks in 2013. He formally joined the company in 2016. Prior to that, Chase was an investment banker at Stifel and began his career at Deloitte. Chase graduated from Michigan State University, with honors, and holds a B.A. in Finance.

Jason Caliento serves as the Chief Commercial Officer US for Boldyn Networks, where he leads our US team in the creation of partnerships across an array of verticals to design and build advanced fiber and wireless network solutions and deliver the promise an interconnected future. Prior to his appointment to CCO, Jason served as the Executive Vice President of Network Strategy, where he led the development of wireless infrastructure across hundreds of venues, cities, and private enterprises in partnership with the US wireless carriers. Jason has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry focused on the development of advanced networks including some of the nation’s largest and most complex rollouts of new technologies and infrastructure.

Prior to his roles at Boldyn Networks, Jason served as the Chief Operating Officer of SAC Wireless, a Nokia Company, and led the National PMO for Clearwire.

Jason holds a BA from Illinois Wesleyan University and a JD from the DePaul University College of Law.

Sean McDevitt is a leading decision-maker, advisor, and thought leader in the telecommunications industry with three decades of international management consulting and operations experience spanning several global markets.

Based in Boston, Sean is a Partner at global consultancy Arthur D. Little. Sean's clients - telecom operators, suppliers, private equity, infrastructure funds, and lenders – turn to his expertise for critical business decisions regarding investment due diligence, commercial / market assessments, business plan review, strategic growth initiatives, and portfolio value creation.

At ADL, he has been pivotal in driving ADL’s growth and re-emergence as one of the premier management consulting firms in the USA. Sean also leads the firm’s USA recruiting efforts and has had an instrumental role in building the ADL USA team and company culture. In addition, Sean has served on ADL’s Global Partnership Assessment Committee.

In 2023, the United States Commerce Secretary appointed Sean to serve on the Board of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), the USA’s nationwide public safety broadband network that equips first responders to save lives and protect U.S. communities. In 2024, Sean was reappointed to the FirstNet Authority Board for a three-year term and named Chair of the Finance & Investment Committee, overseeing ~$40BB in network investment and contract management oversight of AT&T.

Sean is also a Level 4 Tenured (highest level) USA certified On-Ice Official for youth, high school, NCAA, and disabled ice hockey. Sean officiated the 2024 NHL Sled Hockey Classic and the 2023, 2024, and 2025 USA Hockey Sled/Para Hockey National Championships. Sean is a standing league official for the NorthEast Sled Hockey League.

Sean earned his BA in Classics and Business Economics from Brown University and his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Patrick Halley is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless Infrastructure Association (WIA). WIA represents over 140 companies that develop, build, own and operate the nation’s wireless infrastructure and is the leading authority on all things wireless.

Mr. Halley joined WIA in August of 2022. Prior to joining the association, he was the Senior Vice President of Policy & Advocacy and General Counsel at USTelecom – The Broadband Association. There he led the association’s policy development and advocacy efforts in Washington, DC, and the states. He also served as an officer of the Industry Traceback Group, LLC, an organization that traces, sources, and ultimately works to prevent illegal robocalls.

Prior to joining USTelecom, Mr. Halley was a partner at the communications law firm Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP (WBK), where he advised communications providers and trade associations on strategic, policy, and legal matters. During that time, he was the Executive Director of the Next Generation 911 Institute, a not-for profit organization supporting the work of the Congressional Next Generation 911 Caucus to modernize the nation’s 911 system.

He previously served at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in numerous roles, including as a legal advisor to an FCC Chairman and two Bureau Chiefs, as Associate Chief of the Wireline Competition Bureau, and Acting Director of the Commission’s Office of Legislative Affairs. Before joining the FCC, Mr. Halley was the Director of Government Affairs for NENA – The 911 Association where he served as the association’s liaison with Congress, the FCC, and other government agencies.

Patrick graduated magna cum laude from the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law. He received a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from The George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs.

Adrian Shatku is the Founder and CEO of UNIFI Communications and UNIFI Capital Group, as well as Chairman of WIS Telecom in Italy. With over 25 years in global telecommunications, he was among the first to pioneer VoIP services, reshaping international communications. Under his leadership, WIS Telecom became the top 15 global carriers, and today UNIFI leads transformative subsea fiber and AI-edge infrastructure projects across Europe and the Middle East. An alum of Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management, Mr. Shatku continues to champion innovation, investment, and partnerships that strengthen digital corridors and economic opportunity worldwide.

Peter Nulsen is a Managing Director at Generate Capital in New York City. He leads Generate’s on-site power investment strategy and co-leads the firm’s data center energy investment strategy. Since joining Generate in 2015, Peter has led investments in fuel cells, microgrids, stationary energy storage, and clean transportation, and has executed over $1.5 billion in sustainable infrastructure transactions.

Prior to Generate, Peter worked in General Electric’s Energy business, holding commercial finance roles in both the United States and the U.K., as well as serving in GE Energy Financial Services, where he focused on investments in solar and energy storage assets. He also worked for a solar energy developer, supporting project finance, development, and panel procurement. Peter holds a B.A. in Political Economy from Georgetown University, where he was recognized as a Baker Scholar.

Rob is chair of Cooley’s global communications practice group, and he advises telecommunications, media, space technology and satellite clients – including private equity and venture funds – on their most significant regulatory, legal and business matters. As a former commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission and a highly regarded industry leader, Rob has been at the forefront of the most complex and groundbreaking issues facing the telecom-media-tech sector.

Jesse Burros is the Chief Investment Officer at Switch. As part of the executive leadership team, Jesse plays a key role in Switch’s capital allocation and capital formation strategy. In addition to executing Switch’s bank debt, project financing, and structured finance transactions, he partners with Switch’s sales and development teams to achieve Switch’s long-term growth objectives and investment returns.

Jesse joined Switch in 2023 and brings 20 years of experience across both capital markets and digital infrastructure. Prior to joining Switch, he was Managing Director of Investment Banking at BMO Capital Markets, where he led M&A transactions and structured debt and equity financings for digital infrastructure clients, including multiple financings for Switch.

Jesse lives in New York City with his family. He is a graduate of Harvard University and holds an A.B. degree in Social Studies.

Sameer Agrawal is the Chief Executive Officer of ORBCOMM, a global leader in industrial IoT solutions, delivering real-time visibility, intelligence, and connectivity to power the world’s most critical operations.

He brings nearly 30 years of experience driving profitable growth across verticals in the industrial IoT, SaaS, and big data sectors. Mr. Agrawal has led transformative initiatives in product strategy, operational turnaround, and go-to-market execution, and is known for his entrepreneurial leadership style and expertise in leveraging data to drive solutions.

Prior to ORBCOMM, he held senior leadership roles at Honeywell, GE, and SAP. At Honeywell, he managed a $1B+ IoT business in the building automation vertical across multiple brands and geographies.

Mr. Agrawal holds an MBA from INSEAD and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Mumbai University. He is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and holds three patents.

Cameron Parker is the Treasurer of STACK Infrastructure, where he oversees all capital markets activity and Treasury Management for the North America region. Cameron joined STACK in 2022. Prior to joining STACK, he was the Director of Capital Markets for Equinix, focused in part on furthering the Company’s xScale initiative. Cameron joined Equinix from Wells Fargo, where he worked in leveraged finance. Cameron is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He currently resides in San Francisco.

Tyson Begly serves as Chief Financial Officer at Highline, where he helps drive the strategic growth of fiber broadband connectivity in rural America. He oversees finance, accounting, government affairs, compliance, M&A, and grant programs, combining financial leadership with a passion for bridging the digital divide to ensure underconnected communities gain access to critical digital infrastructure.

With more than 20 years of experience in finance, operations, and technology across diverse industries, Tyson brings a distinctive perspective to digital infrastructure investment. Over the past year, he has led the closing of two strategic acquisitions that expanded Highline’s footprint and secured more than $140 million in grant funding.

Tyson is a frequent industry speaker, sharing expertise on the intersection of M&A and grant funding in digital infrastructure. His insights draw on a deep understanding of technology, experience on both sides of M&A transactions, and his long-standing commitment to bridging the digital divide. That commitment stems from his personal journey—from a small town to big cities and back—as well as his service as a City Councilor, where he worked directly with local governments on development initiatives. He also recently delivered a TEDx Talk titled “Beyond City Limits: Redefining Success in Smaller Communities,” further underscoring his dedication to rural connectivity.

Before joining Highline, Tyson held executive roles at an Accel-KKR–backed wealth management fintech company and worked as a consultant advising clients such as Sprint, BellSouth, and Morgan Stanley. He holds a Bachelor of Software Engineering from Auburn University and an MBA from Duke University.

Robert Shuffield is a Director in Rothschild & Co’s North American Digital Infrastructure & Telecom group and is based in New York. Robert has more than 13 years of experience covering telecom and telecom infrastructure in investment banking and equity research roles.

Mr. Shuffield has a BBA with a concentration in finance from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.

As a Managing Director and Head of Digital Assets, Michael is responsible for leading Harrison Street’s digital business and defining strategy for the digital sector, establishing key initiatives and executing the sourcing, analysis and closing of joint venture partnerships and investments in the sector.

Prior to joining Harrison Street, Michael was with Jones Lang LaSalle for 15 years where he was a senior leader for the firm focused on the data center asset class. As part of the Capital Markets team, he provided capital placement and structuring expertise to help user and investor clients develop optimal real estate finance solutions. He focused on sale leasebacks, investment sales, build to suit transaction structuring and lease restructuring.

Since 2005, Michael has been involved in the execution of over 57 million square feet of transactions valued in excess of $11 billion including industrial, office, data center, retail and life sciences real estate. As a market leader in the data center sector, Michael has closed approximately $6.0 billion of transactions involving data centers and telecommunications assets. With a national focus, transactions have spanned all meaningful data center categories including turnkey colocation sites, powered shells, carrier hotels, enterprise facilities, telecommunications switch buildings, development projects and high-performance computing centers across 20 US and European markets.

Michael received his MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business and graduated from Harvard University where he was a member of the baseball and football teams.

Jennifer Fritzsche is a Managing Director Greenhill, A Mizuho Company where she advises companies in the North American Communications Services & Infrastructure spaces. Prior to this role, Jennifer was Managing Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wells Fargo Securities for 25 years where she focused on the Broadband Services, Fiber, Data Center and Tower sectors. During her tenure at Wells Fargo, Jennifer received numerous awards including top rankings from Institutional Investor in the Communications Infrastructure space for four consecutive years.  She has also participated in the in wireless spectrum investment space  – with specific focus on the midband area. Jennifer is a frequent speaker at industry conferences to offer overviews on each leg of the digital infrastructure “stool” (fiber, towers and data centers).

Arun is a Principal with Stonepeak. Before joining Stonepeak, Arun was a Director with Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) in the Credit Investments Group, where he focused on private credit. Prior to CSAM, he worked within private credit at Carlyle, Fifth Street Asset Management, and Prudential Private Capital.

Arun received a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Rutgers University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Michel was named CFO of KIO Data Centers in August 2025. He brings more than 25 years of international experience in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and investor relations. Over the past 8 years, he led major strategic initiatives at Millicom (TIGO), including its listing on Nasdaq, the sale of more than 7,000 towers to SBA Communications, the acquisition of Movistar in Colombia, and the merger with Liberty Costa Rica, among other transactions. Prior to Millicom, Michel was an Equity Research Analyst covering LATAM TMT at Morgan Stanley, Barclays, and Merrill Lynch, having begun his career with Accenture in Canada. Michel is a CFA Charterholder and is fluent in French and Spanish. 

Frank Klausz is Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Transformation at Frontier Communications.  His team is responsible for the company strategy, including corporate development.  Prior to Frontier, he worked at Verizon in consumer strategy, was SVP of Corporate Affairs at Telenor Group, and Chief Corporate Development Officer at Telenor Hungary.  Frank received his BS degree in engineering from Harvard University and MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. 

As Chief Executive Officer of Flexential, Chris Downie was responsible for setting the company’s strategic direction and leading its external-facing priorities—including customer and partner relationships, investor engagement, and long-term growth planning. He worked closely with the leadership team to ensure continued alignment across brand, financial strategy, and platform development.

Chris joined Flexential in 2016 and guided the company through a period of significant expansion and transformation, positioning Flexential as a trusted provider of secure, scalable hybrid IT infrastructure across North America. Under his leadership, the company deepened its presence in key markets, grew its national data center and network footprint, and strengthened its reputation with enterprise customers and industry partners.

Before joining Flexential, Chris served as Chief Executive Officer of Telx Holdings, a leading interconnection and data center provider based in New York. He brings more than 30 years of executive leadership experience in finance, operations, and infrastructure services, with earlier roles at Bear Stearns, Daniels & Associates, BroadStreet Communications, and Motient Corporation.

Chris holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Dartmouth College and a master’s degree in international business from New York University.

Miles Loo Jr., CRE, FRICS, joined Newmark Valuation & Advisory in 2017 in the Downtown Los Angeles office, where he serves as Vice Chairman and is the Global Lead, Valuation & Advisory, for Newmark’s Data Centers & Life Sciences group.

Loo Jr. is well recognized as the industry’s leading appraiser of data center properties. His experience includes advising private equity funds, institutional investors, large pension funds, Fortune 500 companies, cloud companies and Global IT conglomerates on investments in all types of data centers, including mission critical, disaster recovery data centers, colocation facilities, carrier hotels, internet gateways, bitcoin mining, and life science properties. These assignments have involved data centers owned and/or operated by Fortune 500 companies across numerous industries as well as Uptime Institute Site Certified Tier III and Tier IV facilities; U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED Platinum, Gold and Silver buildings; and state and federal disaster recovery data centers. Loo Jr. has led valuations of large individual and portfolio valuations spanning multiple countries across six continents (NA, EMEA, APAC, LATAM and African regions) and has consulted on a number of the world’s largest data centers.

As CEO and Managing Director in fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (“1547”), Todd is involved with running the operations of the business, as well as business development and firm strategy. Todd has a reputation for successfully building enterprise value, taking companies from start-up to executing an exit strategy. Before joining 1547, he served as CEO, President, COO, General Counsel, Controller, and Director of The Telx Group, Inc. during which time he guided the company through multiple financings, acquisitions, SEC registration, and two sales to private equity firms. Before joining Telx, Todd was a founder of Stratus Services Group, Inc., an engineering and staffing services company, and served as its General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. During his tenure, he guided Stratus through multiple private capital raises, the acquisition of over a dozen businesses, and in April 2000, the Initial Public Offering of the company’s stock on NASDAQ.

Todd holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Fairfield University, a Juris Doctor (JD) from Albany Law School of Union University, and is completing a Master of Laws (LLM) in Finance Law from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.

He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), the Wine & Food Society of New York, and the American Corporate Counsel Association as well as multiple bar and professional organizations.

Michael is the CEO of telMAX. telMAX is deploying and all fiber network service businesses and consumers and is Canada’s fastest ISP and fastest growing ISP. As CEO he is responsible for all aspects of telMAX operations and executing it’s strategic growth plan.

Michael brings decades of digital infrastructure experience. After starting his career in R&D he gained experience in technology, IT, operations, customer service and sales. Over the past decade he demonstrated significant strategic and operational M&A expertise and successfully led several complex corporate integrations/separations and business transformations. He has served as a CEO, President, COO and CTO. Most recently he held senior leadership positions at Zayo Group, Allstream and Bell MTS. 

He earned a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering with an Option in Management Science from the University of Waterloo. Michael was the chair of the board of Mplify an industry organization focused on standardizing and accelerating AI-powered network services. He is licensed pilot, a retired triathlete, and an avid skier.

Katie Curtis serves as the company’s Chief Information Officer. She is responsible for strategic planning for technology, infrastructure, information system assets, data management and enterprise security.

Curtis has over a decade of experience in Information Technology leadership roles including enterprise IT roadmaps, increasing productivity through automation, and translating customer needs into new technology products and services.

Katie received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Business from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado and her ITIL V3 certification from the Help Desk Institute.
 

Nadim Laiwala is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he focuses on advising clients in the hardware technology sector. Nadim has extensive investment banking experience advising communications technology, electronics and deep technology clients on sell-side and buy-side transactions, capital advisory transactions and a variety of other corporate finance matters.

Nadim previously held various roles at Qatalyst Partners and Houlihan Lokey and was a software engineer before launching his technology investment banking career. Nadim holds dual B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from the College of Engineering and in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business, both from the University of California, Berkeley.

David Strauss is a Principal and Co-founder of BSP – the leading digital infrastructure M&A technical advisor and due diligence specialist across networks and data centers. The firm has completed over 100 network and data center projects for over 75 clients including Antin, BlackRock, Brookfield, Carlyle, DigitalBridge, Grain, Macquarie, Novacap, OMERS, Palistar, Sixth Street, Stonepeak and T-Mobile. Previously, Mr. Strauss developed the original go-to-market plan for Comcast Business’ enterprise services. He was also VP of Marketing at Cablevision (Altice USA). Earlier, Mr. Strauss launched Sprint’s wireless business. He also worked at AT&T, Juniper Networks and IBM. Mr. Strauss has an MBA from New York University and a BA from Tufts University.

Anubhav Arora is a Senior Director in the Global Infrastructure & Project Finance Group at Fitch Ratings. He is based in New York and is part of Fitch’s Complex Credit Group (CCG), focusing on defining rating approaches globally for non-standard and specialized infrastructure and project finance transactions. This includes alternative and digital infrastructure, specifically data centers. Prior to his role in CCG, Anubhav handled new and existing project finance ratings for transportation issuers across both U.S. and Canadian bond markets.

Adam Cassady was appointed as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Deputy Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on March 16, 2025. In this capacity, he provides advice and assistance to the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information in the formulation, development, and implementation of telecommunications and information policies of the Executive Branch.

Prior to his appointment at NTIA, Mr. Cassady served for over four years at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for Commissioner Nathan Simington. Most recently, Mr. Cassady served as Chief of Staff to Commissioner Simington, and prior to that as Commissioner Simington’s Senior Legal Advisor, managing a variety of telecommunications and technology portfolios.

Prior to joining the FCC, Cassady co-founded a technology firm focused on delivering enterprise machine learning solutions. He holds a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School and a bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University.

Costanza represents developers, sponsors, financial institutions and multilateral agencies on all phases of the development and financing of U.S. and international projects, with a focus on the energy, power and infrastructure sectors. She has advised clients in the United States and Latin America on the development, acquisition, financing and refinancing of assets in sectors including data centers and digital infrastructure, oil & gas, LNG, biomass, and conventional and renewable power.

Megan Mayers is an Americas reporter at TMT Finance. Her beat covers digital infrastructure M&A and financing transactions across the region and includes a focus on deals in the towers and wireless infrastructure, fibre and broadband, datacentres and cloud and managed services spaces. She joined TMT Finance in December 2022, having previously worked as a legal journalist. 

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Maisie Clarke is Editor, Head of Financing Coverage at TMT Finance. Her beat covers digital infrastructure debt and project financing transactions across the Americas and EMEA and includes a focus on deals in the fibre and broadband, datacentres, tower and subsea cable space. She joined TMT Finance in April 2023, having previously worked as a project finance journalist.