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Steve Conner serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Vantage Data Centers.

Conner has more than 25 years of experience in building and leading highly motivated sales and engineering teams. Prior to Vantage, Conner led the sales and engineering teams at Cloudistics, taking the start-up’s revenue from $0 to more than $5 million in its first year of selling. Before Cloudistics, Conner held multiple senior level positions at Nutanix where he successfully built a multi-million dollar business unit focused on managed service providers.

In addition, Conner has held positions as principal at Sequoia Worldwide, vice president of technology innovation at Arrow Electronics, vice president and CTO of InScope International (later acquired by Arrow Electronics), CTO for Absulon Technology Partners (later acquired by InScope International), and director of professional services at Exodus Communications. As part of his focus on technology and enterprise architecture, Conner has earned multiple certifications including CCNP/DP, CISSP and ISSAP.

Conner holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Richmond, a Master of Science degree in computer science from George Mason University, and an MBA from Florida Institute of Technology.

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Rick Galietta is Director, Office of the CTO - Enterprise Strategy and Platform Enablement. Rick's role includes accelerating collaboration, innovation, and growth for leading enterprises and service providers on the world’s largest data center platform.

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Ellen Yang, Vice President of Regional Construction at Prime Data Centers, has 15+ years of global design construction leadership experience in US, Canada, Australia, managing large-scale greenfield development, design construction projects, and portfolios across Data Center, High Tech, Nuclear, Mission-Critical Infrastructure, and Energy Resources.

Ellen is a strong advocate for DEI and for women in Data centers and global construction. She is actively involved in iMWomen, making positive impact and influence, with IM100 award recognition for her contribution to the digital infrastructure industry.

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Dagi provides architecture/design, engineering and construction leadership / expertise to internal and external resources for the delivery of IT capacity for greenfield, brownfield, retrofit and lease delivery projects globally.

His deliverables include data center site selection, managing efforts of land technical due diligence, engineering/designing/constructing the building shell/core, power, cooling, telecom, and controls infrastructure, environmental and building permitting all to align with Salesforce’s IT capacity roadmap for critical infrastructure builds, M&A, migration, optimization, decommissioning and leases.

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David McCall is the VP of Brand Evangelism for QTS Data Centers. He is responsible for building teams, setting strategic goals, and serving as an evangelist for one of largest and fastest growing data center service providers in the United States. He has more than 14 years of solutions engineering experience in the data center, telecommunications, and internet technology industries.

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John Lee is an innovative technology executive focused on operational excellence through driving change. Combining a proven track record for providing outstanding results and building teams with diverse skills to deliver the highest-level of customer service. Core abilities regarding analysis and optimization. Passionate about continuous learning.

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Frank is Associate Director, Global Wireline Standards and Support at Verizon and focuses on forecasting, long term planning, and process management.

Previously, during his role as Principal Engineer for Network Engineering, Frank oversaw three to five year planning for the regional wireless network buildings in the Northeast for Verizon. His main focus had been on the infrastructure - commercial power, equipment power, cooling and space. This includes budget forecasting as well as building business cases for larger projects.  

Frank’s team lead the conversion of regional wireless offices from DC power to AC power; focusing on the reliability, flexibility and cost savings aspects to make it the new company standard. Frank was called upon to assist in the September 11 aftermath, restoring communications to downtown Manhattan. After earning a BS in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at NJIT he moved on to the National Network Operation team within Verizon Wireless as a Network and Construction Engineer.

For 12 years Frank worked on various projects of increasing responsibility throughout the NNO organization. He redesigned the telco pop rooms that feed the national data centers for better space and power efficiency, saving the need for expensive and intrusive expansions. Frank spent several years as the prime engineer for the nationwide microwave network, earning accolades for emergency restoration efforts in Louisiana and Mississippi after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

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Joe Melia is an experienced, collaborative, and innovative professional who brings knowledge, excitement and creative problem solving to Construction Management. Joe possesses a wide range of knowledge covering project delivery life-cycles from conceptual design/budgeting through detailed design/estimating, project management, commissioning and project turnover. He has over 16 years of international construction industry experience managing a wide range of complex projects including high-end commercial interiors, mission critical, life sciences & biotech, electric transmission & distribution.

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Kristin Fletcher is a PhD Chemist with more than 15 years’ professional experience developing people and products. She is the Senior Technology Deployment Technologist for BP.

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