Rhonda focuses on datacenter innovation and energy management in datacenters and across the enterprise. She also covers technologies that enable the efficient use of all resources and help to minimize the environmental impact of business activity. Rhonda has been analyzing the crossroads of IT and business for more than 15 years.

Before joining 451 Research, Rhonda was a senior analyst in energy and sustainability IT at Ovum. Previously, she had a successful career as an IT reporter and editor, mostly in Silicon Valley, at a number of well-known publications.

Rory Duncan is the Research Director for Managed Services & Hosting. His research provides insights into the European multi-tenant datacenter and colocation services markets, European web, application, and managed hosting services, European cloud (IaaS, PaaS & SaaS) services, internet exchanges and content delivery networks.

Rory joined 451 Research following a successful 20+ year career in the technology industry, working in a variety of sales and marketing roles for key software and services vendors including SAP, IBM and Adobe. Since 2005, Rory has been instrumental in providing market and competitive insights for these companies, focusing on emerging trends and technologies.

A keen advocate of the IT services and distribution partner channel, Rory has presented at events across Europe, and is known for his skill in articulating complex technical topics in an easy-to-understand way. Clients value his ability to provide meaning in the context of their business.

Eric Hanselman is the Chief Analyst at 451 Research. He has an extensive, hands-on understanding of a broad range of IT subject areas, having direct experience in the areas of networks, virtualization, security and semiconductors. He coordinates industry analysis across the broad portfolio of 451 Research disciplines. The convergence of forces across the technology landscape is creating tectonic shifts in the industry, including SDN/NFV, hyperconvergence and the Internet of Things (IoT). Eric helps 451 Research's clients navigate these turbulent waters and determine their impacts and how they can best capitalize on them.

For more than 20 years, Eric has worked with segment leaders in a spectrum of technologies, most recently as CTO of Leostream Corporation, a virtualization management provider. Prior to that, Eric delivered security solutions for IBM and Internet Security Systems. At Wellfleet/Bay Networks, Sitara Networks and NEC, he was involved in the introduction of many new technologies ranging from high-performance image analysis to rollouts for IPv6.

Eric holds a patent in image compression systems. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a VMware Certified Professional (VCP), and he is a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences.

Andy Lawrence is the Vice President of Research for Datacenters and Critical Infrastructure at 451 Research. He also leads the 451 Foresight project, which looks at the potential impact of emerging technologies across the IT industry over the next decade.

Andy specializes in datacenter efficiency, market evolution and automation, both from a technical and economic point of view. He has an interest in the convergence of IT and energy technologies, both in the datacenter and beyond. Andy works closely with the Uptime Institute, part of The 451 Group, reviewing innovations and trends for members. Andy has given keynote presentations at events in the US, Europe and Asia.

Andy is the author of reports covering datacenter management; power/energy management; 5G mobile networks; Disruptive Datacenter technologies; and datacenter and application resiliency. He has represented 451 Research at the Green Grid, and contributed to European Union projects on cloud services and renewable energy. He contributed to an international program to develop a carbon footprinting method for IT.

Before joining 451 Research, Andy was the co-founder of Infoconomy, a publishing and research company focusing on enterprise IT; and was a technology and business journalist writing for business and national media. He launched several IT business magazines and information services in the UK and US.

Kelly joined 451 Research in April 2011 as an analyst covering the economics and finances of the datacenter and hosting industries. In her current role, she leads the services analyst teams, which track hosting, managed services and multi-tenant datacenter providers worldwide. Coverage includes providers, market size, datacenter supply and demand, and the dynamics of the industry overall.

Before joining 451 Research, Kelly spent nearly 10 years in private equity, focusing on investments in telecommunications, IT and datacenters. Prior to that, she worked for several years at the OECD in Paris, managing the organization's budget process.

As Research Director of 451 Research's Internet of Things practice, Christian Renaud covers the ongoing virtualization and digitization of the physical world around us.

For 25 years prior to joining 451 Research, Christian built nationwide networks at large and small enterprises, worked with Fortune 50 companies in the systems integrator channel, built products at Cisco Systems and ran the company's New Markets and Technologies team. He has been the CEO of multiple startups, worked in venture and angel capital, and has served as an advisor to G20 and European Commission projects.

Andy is Elastifile’s chief evangelist and market strategist, leading global marketing across product & solutions marketing, demand generation, brand, and field marketing. He works to delight customers and build hyper-growth businesses – delivering #1 market share and more than 100% annual growth four times in a row, most recently at EMC XtremIO, the fastest growing business in enterprise IT history.

Andy brings rich leadership experience across enterprise IT, including all-flash arrays, SDS, servers, storage networking, and applications. Prior to Elastifile, Andy led marketing, product management, and business development in roles at XtremIO (acquired by EMC), Delphix, Veritas/Symantec, SGI, and Emulex (acquired by Avago). He holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford University.

As a Senior Analyst for 451 Research, Dan Thompson provides insight into the Multi-Tenant Datacenter (MTDC) market space. Dan is particularly focused on MTDCs that are trying to move up the stack to offer additional services beyond colocation and connectivity. These services may include disaster recovery, security, various forms of cloud and other managed services. He also assists the 451 Research Information Security group when their interests overlap.

Prior to joining 451 Research, Dan spent 15 years as a practitioner in the IT industry, the last 10 of which were spent at a top managed/cloud service provider. Dan has worn many hats in the IT world, from systems administration to management, and was most recently an enterprise architect. In that role, Dan not only assisted in the launch of the company's security practice, but also created security-specific products, and designed security into every solution launched to the customer base.

Dan has been quoted in a number of top publications including The Wall Street Journal, as well as industry-specific publications such as CyberTrend Magazine. He is a regular speaker at client and industry events and regularly appears on regional NBC affiliate stations across East Tennessee.

Joan Wrabetz is the Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for the Data Center Systems business unit at Western Digital Corporation and leads the global marketing efforts for HGST-branded data center infrastructure products covering public and private clouds. Prior to joining Western Digital, Joan held senior executive positions at QualiSystems (CTO), EMC advanced technology division (VP and CTO), Aumni Data (founder and CEO), Tricord Systems (CEO), StorageTek (VP and GM), and Aggregate Computing (founder and CEO). She earned a Master’s of Business Administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley, a Master’s of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Yale University. Joan also holds patents in load balancing, distributed systems, and machine learning classifications and analytics. She has been an adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas, and the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management.

Senior Analyst Aaron Sherrill covers the Managed Services sector, which includes disaster recovery and security services.

Aaron joined 451 Research after serving as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for two of the largest Managed Service Providers in the market. He was instrumental in developing and growing the MSP business, driving the technical strategy for the companies, developing and leading information security programs, and bringing new managed cloud and service options to the marketplace.

Aaron has 20+ years of experience across several industries, including several private sector companies – Rubbermaid, Travelers, University Health Systems and AllMeds – and serving in IT management for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

He also holds multiple degrees in business, computer science and a MBA, along with multiple certifications that require accreditation such as the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification.

Carl Lehmann is a Principal Analyst in the Development, DevOps & IT Ops Channel. He leads 451 Research's coverage of integration and process management technologies in hybrid cloud architecture, as well as how hybrid IT affects business strategy and operations. The markets covered in his research include enterprise architecture management (EAM) tools, hybrid cloud integration technology (including iPaaS and API management) and business process management (BPM) software.

Prior to joining 451 Research, Carl was Principal Analyst at BPMethods, where he advised clients on business strategy and process management. While there his book, Strategy and Business Process Management: Techniques for Improving Execution, Adaptability, and Consistency, was published by Taylor and Francis Group in 2012. Carl was also a Senior VP of Strategy and Product Management for a B2B integration firm where he developed e-commerce SaaS and IaaS offerings used by over 4,000 companies. Prior to that, he served 10 years as VP of Research for IT advisory firms Gartner and META Group, advising Fortune 500 clients. Carl's career began as a Project Manager for AT&T and a Product Manager for Digital Equipment Corporation (now Hewlett-Packard).

Gerry Fassig is CoreSite’s Vice President of Sales for the North West Region and Strategic Cloud Vertical. He possesses more than 20 years of enterprise and start-up sales leadership experience and leads a national team responsible for customer acquisition and retention, as well as CoreSite’s go-to-market cloud strategy. Prior to joining CoreSite, he held senior sales and management positions with Savvis, helping drive strategic growth throughout the organization during the Exodus/Cable and Wireless acquisitions. Before Savvis, he held various leadership roles at Wheelhouse (a CRM strategy consultancy) and at Gartner.

Nicholas Thompson is the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, where he served previously as senior editor from 2005–2010. There, he edited both National Magazine Award-nominated writing and “The Great Escape,” the story that became the feature film Argo. Thompson has also played a pivotal role with The New Yorker—first as senior editor, then as editor of the magazine’s digital platform, where he helped re-design the website, launch the New Yorker app, spark an eight-fold increase in monthly readers, and quadruple the number of new digital subscribers each month (based on his editorial focus on offering loyalty to writers, diversifying the magazine’s social media presence, and publishing “more, better stories”). He is also the author of the critically acclaimed biography The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War.

Earlier in his career, Thompson worked as a Senior Editor at Legal Affairs, as an editor at the Washington Monthly, and co-founded The Atavist, the National Magazine Award-winning publishing company. He has written on technology and politics for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The New York Observer, and other publications. He has appeared on Bloomberg TV, NBC, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, NPR, and CNN, where he is a contributing editor, and CBS, where he is a news contributor. Thompson earned the 21st Century Leader Award from The National Committee on American Foreign Policy, is a Future Tense Fellow at the New America Foundation, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He graduated from Stanford University, where he was a United States Truman Scholar.

James Henry has been actively involved in the internet and telecom industry for more than a decade. 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 in Psychology from Connecticut College.

Peter is the CEO and Co-founder of DH Capital, LLC. DH Capital is the leading Investment bank covering the Internet Infrastructure sector. Within the Internet Infrastructure sector DH Capital has completed 93 transactions totaling more than $17.7 billion of value. During 2017 DH Capital has completed over $5bn worth of transaction including the sale of Vantage Data Centers to Digital Bridge, the sale of Cologix to Stonepeak Infrastructure Fund, the sale of Sentinel Data Centers to CyrusOne, the acquisition of ViaWest by Peak10, the sale of Connectria to Bregal Capital and the equity investment led by Blackstone Tactical Opportunity Fund into Ascenty Data Centers.

Jad Jebara is president and CEO of Tuangru, a next-generation data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software provider. He previously served as senior vice president of finance and administration at Peer 1 Hosting (now Cogeco Peer 1), where he was responsible for finance, supply chain and IT.

A Fulbright Scholar, he holds a Masters in Professional Accounting with a concentration in Information Management from The University of Texas at Austin, as well as a Bachelors of Commerce from Birzeit University. He is a registered CPA and CMA.

Mark Hurley is a Data Center Solution Architect at Schneider Electric, responsible for bringing together the full suite of Schneider Electric products and services to provide right sized, cost effective, risk based, innovative data center solutions for our customers. Mark has spent 30 years in the commercial real estate industry and has been involved in the MEP design, start up, commissioning and operation of commercial office buildings and enterprise data centers.

Prior to joining Schneider Electric, Mark was the SVP/Engineering Services Executive at Bank of America. Mark was responsible for Engineering and Energy Services delivered to a 120 million square foot real estate portfolio. This real estate portfolio consisted of 50 million square feet of Tier 1-3 mission critical facilities and a Tier 3/4 enterprise data center portfolio totaling over 82MW of UPS capacity. Mark’s responsibilities included; the management and operation of the global data center portfolio, supporting the development and execution of the data center strategy, reducing operational risk, reducing operational cost, establishing the critical facility design standards and, implementation of energy reduction strategies to meet the company’s environmental and sustainability goals.

Xavier Poisson advocates economic growth through community development and innovation. In his role as Vice President for Indirect Digital Services, he leads global expansion of an ecosystem and digital platform that federates all types of channel partners and creates new opportunities for partners and customers alike to accelerate their business results.

To increase partners and customers’ capacity to succeed in today’s digital world, Xavier initiated and continues to drive the growth of a unique digital business platform known as Cloud28+. An open community, Cloud28+ unites Service Providers, ISVs, VARs, distributors, public sector organizations, and technology vendors to offer a cloud services catalog for customers who require specific business and workload solutions.

Xavier Poisson advocates economic growth through community development and innovation. In his role as Vice President for Indirect Digital Services, he leads global expansion of an ecosystem and digital platform that federates all types of channel partners and creates new opportunities for partners and customers alike to accelerate their business results.

To increase partners and customers’ capacity to succeed in today’s digital world, Xavier initiated and continues to drive the growth of a unique digital business platform known as Cloud28+. An open community, Cloud28+ unites Service Providers, ISVs, VARs, distributors, public sector organizations, and technology vendors to offer a cloud services catalog for customers who require specific business and workload solutions.

Xavier Poisson advocates economic growth through community development and innovation. In his role as Vice President for Indirect Digital Services, he leads global expansion of an ecosystem and digital platform that federates all types of channel partners and creates new opportunities for partners and customers alike to accelerate their business results.

To increase partners and customers’ capacity to succeed in today’s digital world, Xavier initiated and continues to drive the growth of a unique digital business platform known as Cloud28+. An open community, Cloud28+ unites Service Providers, ISVs, VARs, distributors, public sector organizations, and technology vendors to offer a cloud services catalog for customers who require specific business and workload solutions.

As the global leader for OpenStack and cloud infrastructure at Red Hat, Balakrishnan is responsible for driving business strategy, product management, partner strategy, and worldwide go-to-market strategy across enterprise & Telco/NFV segments for Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

Balakrishnan has over two decades of experience in the IT industry across various enterprise technologies. Prior to joining Red Hat, Balakrishnan was with Microsoft where he held various product management and product marketing roles across Azure, System Center, Windows Server, Windows Storage Server, Exchange Server, and Windows desktop products and technologies.

As Research Vice President, Al is responsible for setting the research agenda for the Infrastructure practices, spanning servers, storage, networking and software-defined infrastructure. He regularly advises the vendor and service provider C-suite, investment bankers and enterprise CIOs on the business problems technology attempts to solve and the companies that build, use and invest in these technologies. Al also contemplates the evolving business models leveraging OpenStack.

Prior to 451 Research, Al held management positions in software development, network operations, product development and product management at AT&T, Global Crossing and Level 3 Communications. He led global teams to develop customer care applications, set cloud strategy and managed a colocation product portfolio, and he launched multiple network-based managed services for the enterprise sector.

Melanie Posey is the Research Vice President for 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud Transformation offering. She focuses on tracking, analyzing and anticipating the pace and nature of enterprise cloud adoption.

Prior to joining 451 Research, Melanie spent more than 15 years at IDC in a variety of roles, providing analysis, forecasting and insight for the cloud, hosting, datacenter, managed services and telecommunications markets. At IDC, Melanie received numerous awards for research, collaboration, sales support and client service, including being named runner-up for the prestigious James Peacock Memorial Award.

During her more than 20-year career in the technology research and consulting arena, Melanie has been quoted extensively in the business and technology trade press, and is a frequent speaker at industry and client events.

Simon Robinson is responsible for 451 Research's Voice of the Enterprise (VotE) research offerings focused on infrastructure topics, including storage, servers, converged infrastructure and software-defined infrastructure. Simon's team delivers insight on these topics based on a research methodology that polls 451 Research's global panel of IT decision-makers on a quarterly basis, which helps customers make more informed decisions and understand the impact of the fast-changing nature of emerging infrastructure technology adoption.

Based in the UK, Simon joined 451 Research in 2000 and has played an instrumental role in developing the firm's storage and infrastructure research practice, as well as pioneering research efforts in areas such as hyper-convergence, flash-based storage and cloud storage.

William Fellows is a cofounder of The 451 Group. As VP of Research, he is responsible for the Cloud Transformation Channel at 451 Research. This Channel provides a point of intellectual convergence for 451 Research around cloud computing, in much the same way that the industry is converging on cloud from all points. In addition to keeping tabs on players entering the cloud and IT services space with disruptive business models, new technology and innovations in service delivery, William has also created 451 Research's Digital Economics unit. This is currently focused on helping end users, vendors and investors understand complex and confusing cloud pricing mechanisms in order to compare the cost of services (hosted, hybrid and on-premises), the cost of entry and price of participation in new markets.

William also created 451 Research's early adopter research program, working with enterprise end users and innovators. Currently focused on cloud computing, he has identified and tracked other early adopter markets, including grid computing and virtualization, since the company was formed in 2000. William also leads 451 Research's participation within the European Commission and numerous other EC research projects. William is a member of the EC Cloud Expert Group, coauthor of The Future of Cloud Computing? Opportunities for European Cloud Computing Beyond 2010, and a regular speaker at industry and 451 conferences. He participates in numerous advisory boards and planning committees for UK and international industry bodies.

As the global initiative leader for the Red Hat Public Cloud and Emerging Technologies, Karen Farmer is responsible for delivering product, pricing, partner and business strategies for technology market opportunities adjacent to Red Hat’s platform core data center platform infrastructure business.

Karen Farmer has over 20 years of technology industry experience and at Red Hat has previously worked in product marketing, and partner and sales facing roles prior to her current role as business strategist. Prior to joining Red Hat, Karen worked for Intel Corporation’s software optimization labs, and in a variety of product marketing and product management roles; and for Motorola in cellular infrastructure technology development and architecture roles.

Dan Havens is a high energy technology executive with a proven track record building companies. His professional career spans over 25 years in high tech across both public companies and early stage startups. Dan has been on the forefront of the cloud computing revolution and is a frequent speaker on this monumental paradigm shift in information technology.

Mr. Havens is currently the SVP of World Wide Sales, for Ormuco. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, with Math, Physics and Speech as his minor studies.

Bob Woolley is Vice President of Critical Facilities Engineering and Design at RagingWire Data Centers, Inc., responsible for the teams that design, develop and engineer RagingWire’s portfolio of data centers.

Bob has extensive experience in building technical programs for mission critical environments and has overseen engineering and operations at over 75 data centers throughout his careers.

Prior to joining RagingWire, Bob was Vice President of Operations at Primary Integration, one of the largest building commissioning and operational risk management providers. At Lee Technologies, Bob was Vice President of Critical Environment Services, running programs for Microsoft, Coca Cola, Capital One, Fiserv, and KPMG among others. After Lee’s acquisition by Schneider Electric, Bob led the team which introduced critical facility operations services in China, India, Russia and the UK. Prior to joining Lee Technologies, he served as Vice President of Data Center Operations for Navisite, as well as Vice President of Engineering for COLO.COM, where he built and commissioned 27 carrier-neutral colocation facilities in 18 months. He also served as Regional Operations Manager for the Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC) and operated his own mission-critical facilities consulting practice.

Mr. Woolley studied architecture and electrical engineering at Miami University and telecommunications management at Golden Gate University.

Lance Crosby, founder and CEO of StackPath, founder and former chairman and CEO of SoftLayer Technologies and GM of Cloud Innovation at IBM (acquired by IBM in 2013 and now the foundation of IBM’s Cloud Computing division).

Lance’s vision for StackPath began in his work with cloud technology and has manifested to a multi-product platform leading businesses to a secure internet.

Prior to SoftLayer, Mr. Crosby spent five years with The Planet as chief operations officer where he managed all operations including sales, provisioning, product selection, managed services, application development, engineering, information security, business development, and legal departments. Serving in prior executive management roles at Catalog.com and Dallas Internet, he brings extensive experience in leadership and management skills coupled with extensive technical skills in software and hardware environments.

Mr. Crosby holds bachelors’ degrees in finance and management, a Master of Science in finance, a Master of Business Administration and an Honorary Doctorate (2015) from Tarleton State University, a part of the Texas A&M University System. Mr. Crosby’s legal education includes a Juris Doctor from Texas Wesleyan School of Law. He is a licensed attorney in the state of Texas and is an active member of the State Bar of Texas.

Dan Gallivan is the Sr. Director of the Global Cloud Practice for the VMware Cloud Provider Program, the world’s largest (i.e., >4,000 partners in 110 countries) network of validated cloud services based on VMware technology. Prior to joining VMware, Dan held CTO and senior executive positions at some of the largest and most innovative companies in the world including Charles Schwab, Motorola, VERITAS, IBM and CSC. Dan is an innovative, entrepreneurial and passionate IT executive with a broad background in cloud, IT management consulting, global practice leadership, enterprise architecture, joint ventures, and global business development. Dan’s professional experience spans more than 45 countries, he’s a certified Amazon Web Services (AWS) Architect, hobbyist python developer, avid cyclist, and IOT and AI enthusiast. Dan has an BS in Business Information Systems (BIS) and more than twenty years of industry experience.

Casey Cerretani is SVP of Infrastructure at Salesforce. He is responsible for architecting, planning, designing and the operations (IPDO) for the global Salesforce Datacenter presence. The IPDO team partners with Salesforce development teams to deliver trusted, globally scalable hardware and data-center solutions.

Prior to joining Salesforce, Casey served as CTO of ZT Systems where he was responsible for customer collaboration, product design and operational efficiency. During his tenure, ZT Systems grew to become a leading provider of full rack solutions to cloud-scale customers. Prior to ZT, Casey worked at Intel where he led divisions and delivered wireless technology, workstation designs and server development. Casey also developed high end board games, ran a non-profit cafe and launched a custom machine tool company. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic, an MS in Applied Science from Binghamton University and a Doctorate in Mission from Bakke University.

Casey has more than two decades of leadership in design and development in a variety of industry verticals with a proven ability to turn complex problems into product solutions moving the bottom line.

John Sheputis has a proven track record of building successful IT infrastructure firms. In 2006 John founded Fortune Data Centers and served as CEO until late 2014 when Fortune merged with Infomart to form Infomart Data Centers, where he currently serves as President. In the data center industry, John is known for thoughtfully challenging long-held industry conventions in order to provide the most elegant, highly available, and cost effective solutions in the wholesale data center market. Prior to Fortune, John founded and managed several Silicon Valley ventures, most of which specialized in large-scale infrastructure management and hosting of global applications. From 1999 through 2003, he was COO and Co-Founder of Totality (now a unit of Verizon Business), which helped launch and manage over 100 Internet applications for some of the nation’s most trusted and well respected firms. John also held senior management positions at Solidcore (sold to MacAfee [MFE] in 2009), BeVocal (Sold to Nuance [NUAN] in 2007), Enron, Gemini Consulting, and Accenture. John has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School.

George Karidis is the Chief Executive Officer at Virtuozzo. Over the course of his career, George has established a proven track record of success in leading high-growth businesses. He served as Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Operating Officer at cloud infrastructure platform provider SoftLayer Technologies, which was acquired by IBM in 2013 for $2 billion. He played an integral role in building SoftLayer into the largest privately held cloud infrastructure services provider at the time, with revenues approaching $400 million. Most recently, George held the position of President, Cloud Technology Services, at CompuCom, an IT managed services and infrastructure solutions provider. He also held roles at Devonshire Investors, a private equity firm, as well as an industry analyst firm, the Yankee Group. George holds a degree in Accounting, Finance and Economics from McMaster University and an MBA in Finance and International Strategy from the University of Ottawa.

Clinton France, Founder and CEO of Krystallize Technologies, brings over 25 years of experience driving IT transformation to enable the Service-Oriented Enterprise (SOE) in Fortune 50 organizations, Hosting companies and Cloud Service providers. Clinton’s expertise is centered on building and changing large scale IT environments, processes and teams to move IT from operational to strategic, integrating IT into core business processes to deliver interconnected, agile, scalable IT services that power better business outcomes. Over the past 18 years Clinton has been an advocate and influential speaker for IT service-oriented engineering, design and deployment for outcome-based solutions. He is a trusted advisor to Fortune 500 companies.

Clinton has held senior management positions at companies including Microsoft, National City Bank, Boeing, British Petroleum and HP where he was appointed a Distinguished Technologist. His vast experiences proved to be the genesis for the Krystallize concept today: Ten years ahead of its time, Clinton introduced the idea of a services-oriented enterprise, establishing a standard operating IT environment that integrated IT with core business objectives through platform performance metrics.

Clinton holds a BSBA and Executive MBA from University of Washington.

Santiago, Managing Director of KIO Data Center Business Unit, joined the Company in 2005. He is member of KIO Networks Corporation Top Management. He has been in different roles within the company and has experience in Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Channels and Partners. Santiago’s major achievements includes Cross Selling Strategies for KIO Networks Group and it’s business units, strategic alliances and the expansion, design, built and deployment of new Data Centers for KIO Corporation in Mexico, LATAM & Spain.

Santiago was born in Mexico City and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico and he holds an MBA from IPADE Business School. He is Certified Data Centre Design Professional, Certified Data Centre Management Professional and Data Center Design Awareness (DCD.

Orlando founded Ormuco in 2008, when he was only 24 years old. Orlando has led the company from a telecommunications service provider to becoming a global leader in intelligent cloud software. Previous to Ormuco, Orlando founded several startups since the age of 14 and worked for several years as an IT consultant to large businesses and government clients.

Simon West leads global marketing and communications for Cyxtera, responsible for all aspects of the company's global marketing efforts including brand management, communications, field, channel and product marketing. West has spent his career marketing business-to-business technology solutions, and played a key role in three of the largest transactions in the cloud and infrastructure services sector, most recently as CMO of Virtustream, a leading enterprise-class cloud provider, acquired by EMC in 2015 for $1.2 billion.

Prior to joining Virtustream he served as chief marketing officer for SoftLayer Technologies. Over a two-year period West directed a repositioning that established the company as a global leader in cloud infrastructure, ultimately leading to its sale to IBM in 2013 for $2 billion. Prior to SoftLayer, West served as CMO for Terremark, where he executed a comprehensive brand relaunch, positioning the company as a leader in the emerging cloud computing revolution, resulting in unprecedented brand awareness and revenue growth, prior to the company's sale in 2011 to Verizon for $2 billion.

Previously, West spent 11 years with Data Return, where he was part of the initial start-up team and played an instrumental role in taking the company through foundational business planning, product definition and systems development, through the planning and execution of an Initial Public Offering and the successful sale of the business.