DigitalBridge (NYSE: DBRG) is a leading global digital infrastructure firm. With a heritage of over 25 years investing in and operating businesses across the digital ecosystem including cell towers, data centers, fiber, small cells, and edge infrastructure, the DigitalBridge team manages a $69 billion portfolio of digital infrastructure assets on behalf of its limited partners and shareholders. Headquartered in Boca Raton, DigitalBridge has key offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Luxembourg and Singapore.

QScale develops environmentally responsible computing centers specifically designed for high-performance computing (HPC), supercomputing, and machine learning. The company’s Quebec City area campus (QScale Q01) is the first colocation facility in Canada to receive the OCP Ready™ recognition, attesting to its energy efficiency and scalability. QScale's technology infrastructures help meet the growing computing needs of global companies while enabling them to achieve their ESG objectives. QScale is a trademark of Fonds QScale S.E.C.

Schneider’s purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. At Schneider, we call this Life Is On.

We believe access to energy and digital is a basic human right. Our generation is facing a tectonic shift in energy transition and industrial revolution catalyzed by accelerated digitization in a more electric world. Electricity is the most efficient and best vector for decarbonization; combined with circular economy approach, we will achieve climate-positive impact as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Banco Santander (SAN SM, STD US, BNC LN) is a leading commercial bank, founded in 1857 and headquartered in Spain. It has a meaningful presence in 10 core markets in the Europe, North America and South America regions, and is one of the largest banks in the world by market capitalization. Santander aims to be the best open financial services platform providing services to individuals, SMEs, corporates, financial institutions and governments. The bank’s purpose is to help people and businesses prosper in a simple, personal and fair way. Santander is building a more responsible bank and has made a number of commitments to support this objective, including raising €220 billion in green financing between 2019 and 2030. In the first quarter of 2023, Banco Santander had €1.2 trillion in total funds, 161 million customers, 9,000 branches and 210,000 employees.

Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (Santander CIB) is Santander’s global division that supports corporate and institutional clients, offering tailored services and value-added wholesale products suited to their complexity and sophistication, as well as to responsible banking standards that contribute to the progress of society.

With an extensive sector knowledge, VIPA Digital is uniquely positioned to support Investors, Developers, Operators and Consumers of Data Centre Infrastructure as they navigate complex business decisions. The team has first-hand experience in ‘cradle-to-grave’, lifecycle assessment, for Retail, Wholesale and Hyperscale platforms in both established and emerging markets.

Our ‘Connected Thinking’ approach ensures end-to-end evaluation that optimises investment criteria with site selection, construction management, market intelligence, sales engineering and customer service levels. With a track record of delivery across a wide range of local, regional and international organisations with the common objective of operating profitably and providing the best end-user experience.

InfraPartners is a Data Center Total Solution company, our proprietary Data Center product offers a wide range of benefits. They are designed to reduce costs while delivering maximum performance. By pre-fabricating the data center environment and then installing it on-site, we avoid long installation times and reduce labor costs as well as the sourcing of highly skilled labor in remote locations.

Our Solution is designed to be energy efficient and provide reliable security minimise waste during construction as well as circularity whilst reducing the carbon footprint against traditional construction methods by up to 75%.

Our expert in-house design team has spent the past 2 years in research and development side by side with end users to create the most versatile, cost-effective, scalable, and robust Critical IT environment. Rightsizing CapEx, and OpEx as well as removing complexity from On-site installation our Products can be deployed by our in-house team in any location.

Structure Research is an independent research and consulting firm with a specific focus on the cloud and data centre segments within the Internet infrastructure market. We are devoted to understanding, tracking and projecting the future of infrastructure service providers. Our mission is to publish the best research and analysis, and supply the most comprehensive data sets, about the Internet infrastructure services market. We provide the information and perspective necessary to make accurate strategic decisions.

Dutch Data Center Association (DDA) is the trade association for data centers in the Netherlands, the bedrock of the Dutch economy. The DDA unites leading data centers in The Netherlands in a common mission: to strengthen the economic growth and awareness of the data center sector to government, media and society.

The DDA works from three focus areas: Energy & Sustainability, Education & Employment and Digital Economy & Mainport. We are committed to make the power usage of the industry more sustainable and efficient, and we focus on the reuse of data center residual heat. Furthermore, in close cooperation with education institutions, we create data center courses and enthuse students to choose a career in the data center industry. Lastly, we promote our industry and our position as Digital Gateway to Europe.

We also contribute to discussions about technical standards in the sector, and we actively facilitate our members and partners with information about relevant market developments during our (internal) events, publications and media channels.

The Gulf Data Centre Association (GDCA) is a trade organisation designed to promote the data centre sector for associated businesses operating in countries comprising the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

PTC’s Annual Conference is a strategic springboard for the global communications industry, providing all attendees with a four-day platform to focus on planning, networking, and discovering what lies ahead for the ICT industry. Start the new year off right and join us in Honolulu, Hawaii on January 21-24, 2024, for the Pacific Rim’s premier telecommunications event, PTC’24.

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International award-winning education company, CNet Training has been designing and delivering professional education programs since 1996. Today, officially the largest education provider dedicated to the digital infrastructure industry, comprising the data centre and network infrastructure sectors, CNet is recognised throughout the world for being the global industry leader and the only industry dedicated education provider to award both internationally recognised qualifications and professional certifications, starting at entry level through to a qualification level 7 Masters Degree program.

A significant part of CNet’s history is the development of the highly acclaimed Global Digital Infrastructure Education Framework, which offers industry professionals an opportunity to plan data centre and network infrastructure education, qualifications and certifications to meet individual and business needs.

CNet delivers programs in classroom locations across the world and via live Instructor-led remote attendance classes. So trusted is CNet’s expertise that it also designs and delivers vendor-specific programs for many of the world’s leading manufacturers of data centre and network infrastructure solutions.

The Nomad Futurist Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established to demystify the world of digital infrastructure and the related technologies that impact every aspect of our daily lives. Our primary focus is to empower and inspire younger generations through exposure to the underlying technologies that power our digital world. Through the contributions of our supporters, we are launching global programs in partnership with a range of education providers, NGOs and other nonprofit organizations committed to educating children in underprivileged communities.

The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact brings together over 100 Data Centres operators and providers of cloud infrastructures services and 22 Sector Association across Europe representing the majority of all market actors in Europe. Established with the support of the European Commission and launched by Executive Vice President Timmermans in January 2021, the Pact is an unprecedented initiative by the data centre industry in Europe to proactively define and promote specific measures and targets to achieve climate neutrality across the sector by 2030.

Edge Industry Review (EdgeIR.com) is a news, analysis and industry resource website documenting the changes taking place on the edge of the internet infrastructure market – the present and the future of Edge Computing.

Today, there are a variety of definitions of Edge Computing. We will cover the debates that are occurring and explain their implications for the network operator, data center operator, cloud provider and the people and investors that are building new services. As part of the discussion, we will also present the viewpoints of the thought leaders of the Edge Internet Economy.

The next Internet evolution is upon us and EdgeIR.com will be at the forefront with insightful news and commentary.

From idea to scale, we live in a new entrepreneurial age where leadership thinking needs to cut through the noise to deliver on a vision and blueprint to success. The Great Business Minds podcast goes inside the business with the leaders, inventors, investors, executives, trendspotters and visionaries of today to explore what it really takes to build a brand beyond conventional wisdom and disrupt the marketplace with the next big leap in entrepreneurship innovation. Seize the moment with host João Marques Lima, journalist and former editor-in-chief of FTSE 250 tech publications.

Jaymie Scotto & Associates (JSA) is the preeminent provider of Public Relations, Marketing and Event Planning services to the telecom, data center and tech industries. Awarded ‘Most Outstanding Telecoms PR Agency’ by LiveWire for two years. Our success is attributed to our skilled JSA team, innovative tools, established media and industry relationships. We deliver outreach and brand awareness services, the latest lead generation inbound marketing tactics done in a timely integrated marketing plan, offering optimal and measurable ROI.

At Spa, we believe that communications campaigns should result in positive, tangible outcomes that create influence at every stage of the buying cycle.

To achieve this, we use a multi-disciplined and strategic approach that combines creative storytelling with award-winning PR, Content Marketing and Social Media amplification.

Established in 2003, we work with data centre and digital infrastructure businesses to disrupt, transform, and accelerate their market position.

Mondego Media Group (MMG) is a leading provider of specialized news solutions, events, data and other media services. We cater to digital infrastructure leaders, investors, regulators, and stakeholders by offering tailored intelligence and experiences. Our team of experts is dedicated to providing our clients with the latest industry insights and breaking news, helping them stay ahead of the curve. At MMG, we inform, connect and amplify. We pride ourselves on our diverse portfolio of brands, including The Tech Capital and the International Finance Forum (IFF).

Alex Bornyakov is a Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine on IT industry development. His main goal in this position is to turn Ukraine into the largest IT Hub in Europe.

Among Alex’s projects is the introduction of a unique tax and legal space for the IT industry Diia.City. It combines favorable tax conditions with effective tools that allow companies to build a transparent corporate structure, attract foreign investment, and use additional mechanisms to protect intangible assets. Alex also places a great deal of emphasis on developing the Ukrainian startup ecosystem, as he aims to bring Ukraine to the TOP-5 countries with the highest number of startups per capita in Europe. As part of the support initiatives in this area, The IT Generation project was launched. It offers free training in IT specialties for switchers.

Alex has an MBA (University of New Brunswick), an MPA (Columbia University) and more than ten years of experience in IT management. He founded and managed a number of successful companies and startup incubators, including the American video monetization platform Adtelligent and the outsourcing company Intersog, which was included in the TOP 5 App Developers in Chicago according to Clutch. In 2015, he became Best CEO / COO - IT BIZ AWARDS 2015, and in 2016 he was included in the ranking of 25 trailblazing business leaders in Ukraine.

Heather Paduck is the Chief Financial Officer of STACK Infrastructure and has more than 25 years of experience developing, executing, and leading financial strategy and operations. Utilizing her extensive and unique background building finance organizations and overseeing capital raises at rapidly growing businesses, Mrs. Paduck ensures a focus on impactful funding and technology initiatives to drive responsible and forward-looking growth.

Prior to STACK, Mrs. Paduck was CFO of Northwood Investors, a global, vertically integrated real estate private equity firm with over $7 billion in assets under management. She previously served as CFO of Pembroke Real Estate, a Fidelity Investments subsidiary, which manages over 7.5 million square feet in direct real estate investments in the United States, Europe, and Asia/Pacific. Mrs. Paduck’s experience also includes six years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she managed financial statement audits for public and private real estate companies.

In 2021, she was honored with the Leading Allies Of Data Centers & The Cloud’s DEI Trailblazer Award for her tireless efforts advancing diversity in the workplace. In 2022, Mrs. Paduck was awarded the Outstanding Women in Business Award from the Denver Business Journal, Private Company CFO of the Year Award from Northern Virginia Technology Council, and inclusion in the Tech Capital’s CFO 50 list.

Mrs. Paduck received a B.S. in Accounting and International Business from Indiana University, and an M.B.A. in Finance at the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University.

Krupal Raval joined Equinix in May 2019. He currently serves as Managing Director for the xScale team. with nearly 20 years of financial services and REIT industry experience. Since joining, the xScale team has announced several multi-billion dollar joint ventures, with nearly $8.0 billion committed to projects in the Americas, EMEA and APAC.

Previously, Krupal was Chief Financial Officer, Asia Pacific for Digital Realty. In that role, he oversaw a range of financial functions in Asia Pacific region, including forming the Joint Venture partnership with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan. He also served as the regional Portfolio Manager, overseeing a portfolio of nearly 2.0 million square feet, which grew nearly 3x during Krupal’s tenure in APAC, while NOI increased nearly 4x.

Krupal also previously served as the Vice President, Capital Markets at Alexandria Real Estate Equities. Here, he was responsible for designing and executing financial strategy, balance sheet management and corporate functions, including financial reporting, corporate finance, and investor relations and marketing. During his tenure at Alexandria, the firm raised $2.1 billion of equity and debt capital. Prior to this, Krupal served as a Research Analyst for Fidelity Management and Research, where he coordinated asset allocation with the firm’s portfolio managers, resulting in over $4 billion new capital invested in publicly traded real estate companies. Krupal started his career at the top-ranked Citi REIT Equity Research team.

Krupal received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University, where he was a Meinig Family National Scholar (awarded to less than 2% of each class). In his free time, Krupal spends time with his family.

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Matt Evans is a Managing Director, Head of Europe at DigitalBridge Investment Management. Mr. Evans is based in London and focuses on European Investments and opportunities. He is an accomplished and a highly experienced global infrastructure investor, bringing more than two decades of relevant industry and transaction expertise to DigitalBridge.

Prior to joining DigitalBridge, Mr. Evans served as Global Head of Digital Infrastructure, Co-Head of Origination and Co-Head of Europe at AMP Capital. During his tenure, he was responsible for the firm’s successful investments including Axion, Expedient, Everstream Solutions, eNet and Towercom. Before joining AMP Capital in 2013, Mr. Evans spent 14 years at Macquarie Capital Advisors in various roles of increasing responsibility, most recently as Managing Director of the Telecoms, Media, Entertainment and Technology Group in EMEA.

Mr. Evans has a Bachelor of Science degree and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the University of Waikato in New Zealand.

Adam Levine has 18 years of experience at the highest levels in the domain of IT hosting.

He began his career in the real estate sector with HRO before specialising in the IT hosting sector with such major industry groups as CBRE.

In 2007, Adam Levine was appointed VP Sales, then VP Business Development and Strategic Alliances (EMEA), at Digital Realty Trust, a global operator of Data Center solutions, where he worked for 7 years in direct collaboration with major IT and telecommunications sector players such as IBM, Atos Origin, Capgemini, Equinix and Orange Business Services.

Adam Levine joined Data4 as Group Chief Commercial Officer in 2014, in charge of the group’s organic growth as well as new market development strategy.

Marcos Peigo is an Operating Partner of DigitalBridge and the CEO and a Board Member of Scala, the Latin American hyperscale data center platform of DigitalBridge. Mr. Peigo is based in São Paulo, Brazil, and provides critical insight into the Latin American data center and IT markets. He is a seasoned leader with over 20 years of experience working with technology and infrastructure-focused firms in Brazil.

Mr. Peigo has significant executive management experience in Latin America, including, most recently, Vice President of Value Creation at IBM Latin America, where he was responsible for Industry Solutions and Business Development, Architecture and Innovation teams across the region; Chief Executive Officer of Solvo S/A, an IT infrastructure services company focused on complex solutions; Chief Operating Officer of UOLDIVEO, including the management of their data center and managed services business based in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and a Partner and Board Member of Automatos International Ltd, a company providing automation and management for IT assets. Previously, Mr. Peigo was also the Founder of Lemniscata Ventures, a Brazilian privately held advisory and investment firm focused on companies that have intensive use of technology as its core.

Mr. Peigo studied Electrical Engineering and Economics at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and is Certified in ISO20000, ITIL (v1-2-3) and Cobit. In 2017, he was awarded as Executive of the Year - IT Services, by KornFerry/ITMidia.

Mark is the Vice President and Head of Investor Relations at Cassava Technologies. Mark, who is based in London, joined Liquid Intelligent Technologies in October 2020 as Head of Investor Relations. He started his career in the IT industry and subsequently spent much of his career in the telecommunications sector, undertaking senior finance positions across Europe at Vodafone before joining Telefonica O2 UK.

In 2015, Mark was asked to run Investor Relations at the newly merged Dixons Carphone, now Currys PLC, a UK-listed electrical and telecommunications retailer, and more recently at ConvaTec Group PLC, a medical products and technologies company.

Mark is a business graduate from Royal Holloway, University of London, and a qualified Chartered Management Accountant.

More than 25 years exposure to some of the world’s fastest moving and digitally advanced technologies has left Fabio Fontana uniquely placed as Chief Growth Officer Executive Director and Head of Technology and Digital Compute & Innovation at Tonomus.NEOM . Fabio is also the newly appointed CEO of ZeroPoint DC. Fontana’s work is fundamental to the successful delivery of NEOM’s next generation Hyperscale Hybrid Data Center, which uses 100% renewable energy and water-cooling technology.

Fontana and his team are also embarking on full-scale technology ventures at NEOM,harnessing the power of the ‘Connect, Compute, Platform and Innovation’ to deliver end-to-end solutions where humans and machines harmonize, inspired by nature and sustainability. Prior to joining NEOM, Fontana worked in in a variety of senior executive and managerial positions, including at Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE). Most recently as Managing Director for HPE in the Middle East and Africa, Fontana was responsible for market growth across the entire HPE portfolio of products, solutions and services. In addition, he has worked globally for a range of different HP business segments, with international postings in Hong Kong, Rome and San Francisco amongst others. Fontana was also a founding member of the U.S. - U.A.E. Business Council.

With a postgraduate in computer sciences and artificial intelligence from Italy’s University of Pisa, Fontana studied business management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Sloan School of Management and Stanford University. In 1999, he won a patent for developing the ‘Real Time Banking System,’ a joint project between HP, Verifone and Huntington Bank.

Michael Elias is a Senior Equity Research Analyst at TD Cowen covering the Communications Infrastructure sector including Data Centers and Content Delivery Networks (CDN’s) and has been a member of the Communications Infrastructure team since 2017.

Prior to joining TD Cowen, Mr. Elias worked as an equity analyst at Xanthus Capital Management. Mr. Elias received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research: Engineering Management Systems at Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Philippe Vogeleer is Vodafone Group’s Global Head of Business Development. He is based in London. His role consists in building alliances, partnerships, and serving as special envoy of the company in the 100+ countries where it delivers services.

Philippe and his 303 strong team recently won a license to start operating telecom services in Ethiopia, after a two years long competitive race. This win puts an end to a 126 years monopoly and gives Vodafone access to a high growth market of 112m people. This is the biggest win of Vodafone in emerging markets in the last 23 years.

It will allow Vodafone, Vodacom, Safaricom, Sumitomo, the UK CDC, the US DFC, and 75 local partners to boost data coverage from 6% today to 98% in two years via a combo of terrestrial mobile and low orbit satellite networks, to create 1 to 1.5m jobs, and ultimately to lift dozens of millions of people economically.

Prior to joining Vodafone, Philippe held senior positions for Ooredoo (Qatar), for Orange (France), and for Deloitte. He has lived in 10 countries so far and worked in 74.

He holds a Master's degree in Law; a Master's degree in Media & Comms; and an (Executive) MBA.

Vincent is Head of UK and Europe, based in London.

He oversees Morrison & Co’s European activities and leads the origination of European investments on behalf of the firm's clients.

Vincent has over 20 years' experience in infrastructure investing, investment management, M&A and business development in the social infrastructure, telecom, utilities, renewable energy, transport and midstream sectors.

Before joining Morrison & Co in 2019, Vincent was a partner at Ancala Partners. Previously, he was a senior investment manager infrastructure at PGGM responsible for sourcing large core European investments, leading execution and asset management. He also worked in the real estate investment management arm of ABN AMRO, where he managed the establishment of its Paris office, and he has worked at Rabobank and KPMG Corporate Finance.

He is a Director on the boards of Galileo Green Energy, Fore Freedom and Kao Data.

Vincent holds a Master of Financial Business Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

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Dev Gupta joined ESR in May 2019 to spearhead the creation of the Data Centre Vertical. As Chief Investment Officer for ESR Data Centres, he is responsible for the development of the DC strategy, Acquisitions, Investment Management and Customer / Operator Partnerships. He has successfully received commitments for a dedicated APAC Data Centre development fund, acquired 8 assets with a total development potential of 560MW facility load across 6 countries in the region, and set-up a 20 member dedicated team for Data Centre design and development.

Prior to joining ESR, Dev was Director Investments, Allianz Real Estate, where he was responsible for development of new investment strategies across new APAC markets including Digital Infrastructure and Modern Logisitcs.

He has twenty six years of experience in strategy creation, starting businesses, and asset acquisitions/ DD/ financial analysis/ deal structuring across real estate, digital infrastructure, technology, and renewable assets in APAC.

Dev holds a Bachelor’s of Engineering and Masters of Business Administration.

Marco is CFO of Raxio Group. He has 15 years of experience in Energy, Infrastructure and Banking. His expertise covers the entire investment value chain across several asset classes (renewable energy, toll roads, railways) and geographies (Africa, Europe, USA, LA).

Stephanie Liston became Chair of DCF in March 2021. She specialises in providing international strategic, legal and regulatory advice in relation to a variety of types of projects and commercial transactions across multiple jurisdictions and industry sectors.

As a dual American and British citizen who has lived and worked in the US, UK and British Virgin Islands, Stephanie has extensive knowledge and experience of international and emerging markets.

Stephanie is an acknowledged international expert in a wide range of technologies and has been a leading partner in the most respected communications law firms. She has significant experience in helping businesses navigate their marketing and communications strategies to address the broadest and most valuable markets.

She served as an Independent Member of the BT Equality of Access Board from 2013 to 2018, as Chief Legal Advisor to the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission in the British Virgin Islands from 2015 to 2017, as a non-executive Director of Ofcom and as a member of its Audit Committee from 2005 to 2008, an advisory board member of Orga Systems GmbH from 2010 to 2014, a Director of the European Competitive Telecommunications Association from 2000 to 2005, and co-Chairman of the Communications Committee of the International Bar Association from 2004-2006.

Currently, Stephanie is Chair of the UK Digital Connectivity Forum, Senior Advisor to Frontier Economics; Chief Executive Officer of Sequoia Way Limited; Associate Director of Innovation Advisors and Founder of Women in Telecoms and Technology.”

Matt Barker is a Managing Director and Head of GI Data Infrastructure Europe. Prior to joining GI Partners, Mr. Barker was a Partner at 3i Infrastructure PLC where he led multiple digital infrastructure investments. Previously, Mr. Barker was an investment professional in the infrastructure funds business of Macquarie.

Andrei Milekhin is a Managing Director and Global Head of Digital Infrastructure Investment Banking at Nomura Greentech based in London. Andrei focuses on a variety of digital infrastructure and telecommunications markets and businesses globally and in Europe, in particular.

Andrei joined Nomura in July 2016 following two years at VimpelCom (now Veon) in Amsterdam, where he was responsible for origination / execution of M&A transactions as well as spearheading the efforts with respect to defining portfolio strategy for the Group. Prior to joining VimpelCom, Andrei was a Director in the TMT Investment Banking team at UBS in London.

Notable recent transactions include advising PGGM and EDF Invest on acquisition of a minority stake in Norlys Tele in Denmark, GIC on acquisition of a minority stake in CETIN, Ardian on acquisition of Adamo in Spain, Allianz Capital Partners on acquisition of a minority stake in American Tower Europe (c.€1bn) and a 50/50 partnership with Telefonica to roll-out FTTH network in rural Germany (€5bn), as well as sale of Towertel to Phoenix Tower International and sale of Retelit to Asterion Industrial Partners (c.€700m).

Andrei holds a degree in Economics from Moscow State University for International Relations (MGIMO).

Gabriel’s principal area of practice is corporate finance. He works with a variety of public and private companies as well as private equity investors and their portfolio companies in connection with mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, and securities offerings.

His practice has a global reach, spanning Latin America, the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and involves extensive experience advising a multinational client base of leading corporations and financial sponsors on complex, cross-border transactions.

In particular, Gabriel has significant experience in transactions in the digital infrastructure sector, such as telecom towers, data centers and fiber.

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

Miles 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 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. Miles 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.

Tara K. Giunta, a partner in the Litigation Department of Paul Hastings, is Co-Chair of its ESG Risk, Strategy and Compliance Group and a Member of the firm’s Investigations and White Collar Defense practice, which is routinely recognized by the Global Investigations Review (GIR) as a leading investigations practice and one of a handful of global "elite" practice groups. Ms. Giunta is a recognized risk, strategy and compliance expert and advisor to global companies on corporate governance and enterprise risk management. She advises C-suites and boards in identifying and mitigating risks, developing and enhancing compliance programs, investigating and remediating wrongdoing and/or internal control weaknesses, conducting compliance-related due diligence in M&A and other commercial transactions, and developing reporting and disclosure frameworks.

Her work has spanned the globe, performing risk assessments, conducting investigations and rolling out comprehensive compliance programs in Africa, the Middle East, South America, and Asia.

Ms. Giunta was recognized by GIR in its inaugural Women in Investigations list, which recognized 100 women across the globe who are “achieving great things in a competitive and notoriously tough area of law.” She is also Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Diversity Council and Chair of the firm’s Women’s Initiative. Ms. Giunta is Founder and Editor of the firm’s publication, Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women in the Boardroom, now in its Fifth Edition, and speaks often on corporate governance, ESG compliance and risk. Ms. Giunta was a recipient of Corporate Counsel’s 2019 Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards under the Thought Leadership category.

Ulises R. Pin represents US and foreign communications and technology companies on corporate, financial, and regulatory matters. He also advises private equity firms, venture capital funds, and financial institutions on investments in the telecommunications, media, and technology (TMT) sectors. Ulises represents clients before the Federal Communications Commission and government agencies in Mexico, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. He has experience in cross-border transactions with particular emphasis on foreign investment and national security issues, including securing approvals by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).

Ulises R. Pin represents US and foreign communications and technology companies on corporate, financial, and regulatory matters. He also advises private equity firms, venture capital funds, and financial institutions on investments in the telecommunications, media, and technology (TMT) sectors. Ulises represents clients before the Federal Communications Commission and government agencies in Mexico, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. He has experience in cross-border transactions with particular emphasis on foreign investment and national security issues, including securing approvals by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).

Ulises frequently counsels clients on foreign investment, national security, export controls, international trade, nd embargo issues before CFIUS, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Department of Treasury, and the Departments of Commerce, State, Defense, Homeland Security, and Justice. In this area, he has substantial experience negotiating complex mitigation agreements. He has also represented institutional, high-yield, and distressed debt investors in complex workout and insolvency matters in domestic and cross-border financial restructurings.

Ulises is a member of the Morgan Lewis CFIUS working group. He is a native Spanish speaker.

Germán Cufré is Global Manager for Telecom, Media and Technology investments at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). IFC—a member of the World Bank Group—is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets.

German joined IFC in 2006 and has been part of the investment team focused on telecommunications infrastructure since 2008. German is currently responsible for helping develop IFC’s business in the sector, supporting equity and debt transactions in emerging markets across all telecom infrastructure subsectors including broadband, data centers, small cells and DAS, independent tower operators, IoT, TESCO and MNO's.

Before joining IFC, Mr. Cufre led an acquisitions turnaround team at a distressed asset fund out of Argentina and worked as a strategy/ turnaround consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton based in Chicago (USA), Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Buenos Aires (Argentina). He holds a B.A. from Universidad de San Andres and an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

IFC—a member of the World Bank Group—is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities in developing countries. In fiscal year 2020, we invested $22 billion in private companies and financial institutions in developing countries, leveraging the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity.

Phil advises asset managers and securities services firms on regulation, market practice, and market developments relating to investment fund structures, regulatory initiatives (both domestic and European) and commercial agreements.

Phil is a specialist in investor disclosure and this work increasingly sees him advising on the implementation of forthcoming regulatory initiatives, particularly in the areas of ESG and sustainable/responsible investing where he leads on our Financial Services work and acts as chair of an industry working group.

Phil’s private practice experience has been supplemented by a series of industry secondments, including a role with the Financial Conduct Authority’s Fund Authorisations team. Phil maintains a substantial industry network, acting as an expert advisor to the Investment Association and TISA as well as holding a committee position with the Confederation of British Industry.

David Kippen has a 25+ year background in M&A, corporate finance and private investing in the Telecom Media Technology (TMT) sectors, as well as energy and other sectors. He has worked on over 40 M&A transactions valued at over US$30 billion during this time.

In addition, he has worked on numerous private and public debt and equity financings in the TMT/Digital sectors and has been a board member of growth stage and digital businesses. He was a colleague of Benn Mikula in JPMorgan’s Technology/TMT Investment Banking Group and subsequently moved to UBS before moving to a family office where he has overseen direct Private Equity investments. Mr Kippen holds a BA from McGill University and a Masters from Johns Hopkins/SAIS.

Dr. Lara launched Sigma Economics on the back of over 20 years’ of experience as a competition and regulatory policy expert.

She has direct experience of influencing regulatory decisions at the highest level and understating what matters most to decision makers. Currently, she serves as NED on the boards of the Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority (a regulatory body) and Portsmouth Water (a regulated commercial entity).

Prior to launching Sigma Economics, Dr. Lara worked as a Partner and Co-lead of the Competition and Regulatory practice at Flint Global. She has also worked in senior roles at the UK’s competition authority (CMA) and Ofcom.

Lara has also recently cofounded Simulnova Software to develop next generation digital twin software applications to assist firms with their biggest challenges (the so called ‘unknown unknowns’).

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Michalis Grigoratos is the Co-founder & Managing Partner of Infrapartners LLC, a Vertically Integrated pre-fabricated Data Center business.

Jan Willem van Roggen is a seasoned banker who has a successful career in the financial services industry. With over three decades of experience in banking, Jan Willem is currently heading the Commercial Real Estate and Infrastructure teams at NIBC, which operate extensively across Europe. His teams possess extensive knowledge of the latest market trends and financing opportunities, allowing them to offer valuable insights and solutions to clients.

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Ms. Anne Foster is a Director with over 15 years’ experience across investment, financial advisory, asset management and investment banking focused on infrastructure and global energy

Ms. Foster is responsible for leading Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners’s ESG and Sustainability activities.

Prior to joining Quinbrook, she served as Vice President for the CEI division at Capital Dynamics Group between 2010 and 2014, supporting investment analysis, fundraising and investment transaction project management

Previously, Ms. Foster worked in Asset Management for Deutsche Bank Asset Management Infrastructure, Grant Samuel M&A and Investment Banking at Credit Suisse

Ms. Foster has completed postgraduate studies at MIT in Digital Transformation (Blockchain, IoT, Cryptocurrencies, AI and Cybersecurity), holds a Master of Applied Finance from the Securities Institute of Australia, a Bachelor of Science (specialising in Environmental Science) from the University of New South Wales, Australia with First Class Honours and has also studied under scholarship at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management.

John comes to Quantum Loophole with a wealth of experience in the data center, real estate and telecommunications sectors. He has served as managing attorney in private practice and as in-house counsel for technology companies. John’s experience includes representing OEMs, SaaS and IaaS providers, content providers and technology infrastructure companies. In addition to his work as an attorney, John has held positions in operations and engineering departments where he was responsible for managing business relationships with some of the largest telecommunications companies in the world.

As a private attorney, John was entrusted with transformational corporate transactions that impacted the breadth and scope of his client’s technology businesses. He also served as first-chair litigation counsel in obtaining favorable jury verdicts and negotiating complicated settlements in bet-the-company litigation.

John’s tenure as in-house counsel encompassed both the dot-com bubble and the bust. He was the in-house lead attorney for a nationwide fiber-optics network, served as primary legal support for financial operations and served on several corporate transaction teams. As lead in-house bankruptcy counsel in the aftermath of the dot-com bust, John was responsible for managing claims and outside counsel, served on unsecured creditors’ committees and found himself testifying in the WorldCom Bankruptcy.

Michael Suppan is a Managing Director in Deutsche Bank’s Infrastructure & Energy financing team, based in London.

He has more than 16 years of extensive experience in financing transactions in the broader infrastructure sectors (digital, energy transition, core and core+ infrastructure).

Within the team, Michael is responsible for digital infrastructure financings (data centres, fibre and mobile towers) and has a particular focus on special situations lending.

Prior to Deutsche Bank, he started his career in the asset finance team at Citigroup (London). Michael holds a Masters degree from WU Vienna and is a CFA charterholder.

Steve is an engineer by profession. He has had a highly successful career in both selling and service delivery. He was formerly the UK Public Sector Sales Director at HP. During his time at HP, Steve held a number of roles and was responsible for UK public sector sales, UK Defence sales, and Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa businesses, covering all sectors of the Enterprise Service business. He led the transformation of the go to market operation in this undeveloped area of business and delivered a sound growth strategy for the next three years.

Previous to HP, he held a number of positions with senior-level responsibility at EDS, successfully leading the companies’ strategic bids, re-pitching of existing contracts, new business and incremental growth. At EDS he established and led the service management organisation, including two major service centres and a support regime to deliver IT services to the MoD as part of Europe’s largest ever IT contract (circa 300,000 users in over 450 locations worldwide). Steve joined the technology industry having completed 19 years of distinguished service in Her Majesty’s Royal Navy as an aeronautical engineer officer.

Simon Rozas is the Head of European Digital Infrastructure at DIF Capital Partner. He leads the origination and investments in digital infrastructure across Europe. Previously, he worked at Cube Infrastructure Managers, where he led greenfield fiber projects across Europe for the Connecting Europe Broadband Fund.

Simon’s career includes over two decades of experience in investing, lending and investment banking at the EBRD, Citigroup and HSBC. He started his studies in Vilnius University and holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Economics and Finance from Brandeis University in Massachusetts.

DIF Capital Partners is an independent infrastructure fund manager, with more than EUR 15 billion of AUM. DIF was founded in 2005 and has built a leading position in managing mid-market investments, primarily in Europe, North America and Australia.

Sicco has been a member of the SFTMT team since 2005, and historically focused on providing structured finance solutions for companies active in the mobile and satellite sectors.

After joining as Management Trainee, he quickly decided to pursue a more specialized career in the TMT sector. Sicco worked on various transaction ranging from syndicated facilities, club deals, project and leverage financings to bilateral loans for strategic as well as Private Equity investors across EMEA, CEE and CIS. Within TMT, he currently focuses on the technology sector.

Sicco holds a MSc degree in Business Economics (highest honours). Sicco also participated in a number of corporate, project and leveraged finance training programs.

Derek is a partner in the Transaction Services team, specialising in acquisition due diligence for corporate and financial buyers, vendor assistance and vendor due diligence. Derek has been advising on transactions since 1998, joining BDO in 2004, having been with PwC in the UK and Australia.

In 2011 Derek was seconded to Lyceum Capital, where he was responsible for originating, evaluating, structuring and executing investment opportunities, as well as portfolio development. He has particular experience in technology and consumer businesses.

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Will has over 18 years of experience investing in real estate and digital infrastructure asset classes and currently oversees NTT GDC’s global investment strategy and transactions functions. Prior to joining NTT in 2018 he has held a number of roles with institutional investment groups and advisers, including AXA Investment Managers, Waypoint Capital and JLL.

Rick Piket is a Vice President within Citigroup’s TMT Investment Banking group, where he specializes in Digital Infrastructure. Since joining Citi in 2016, Rick has focused on executing M&A and Capital markets transactions globally across data centers, fiber and towers.

Simon joined Global Ventures as a Principal in early 2020, and has over five years of investment experience across venture capital and corporate finance. Before joining Global Ventures, Simon worked in the investment team at Committed Capital, a venture capital fund based in London which focused on early stage technology investments. Simon is a Chartered Accountant with the ICAEW, a Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments and holds a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Warwick.

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Ronald Philip leads strategic planning for Agility's logistics parks business globally. Agility Logistics Parks is a leading developer of logistics and industrial real estate in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. He joined Agility from McKinsey & Company where he spent 6 years serving CxOs and Ministers in the transport, logistics, infrastructure and real estate sectors in emerging markets on topics of strategy, large capital investment decisions and performance improvement. Prior to McKinsey, Ronald held roles with the World Economic Forum, PwC's infrastructure finance practice, GE and the World Bank in the US and Asia. Ronald holds a MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode.

Canan is a strategy consultant, investor and advisor. Canan has been an investor in the Digital Infrastructure and Technology space in the last 11 years working for Mubadala Investment Company. She has led and negotiated several deals for Mubadala in the digital infrastructure, telecoms, software and services space in the US, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Canan is currently supporting PMP Strategy with their principal investor business focusing on digital infrastructure and enterprise software. Previously, Canan also worked for McKinsey. Canan holds a MSc in Earthquake Engineering from Bogazici University and an MBA from INSEAD.

Steve Wallage is the Managing Director for Danseb Consulting, the leading provider of strategic consulting and commercial due diligence to the data centre, co-location, IaaS and telecoms markets.

He has over 25 years experience in the industry, including six years as a Principal Analyst at Gartner Group, and then more than ten years leading BroadGroup Consulting.

Some of his strategic consulting projects include work for operators, vendors and users, ranging from market entry to detailed market analysis to business and financial/business modelling.

Work for investors ranges from market analysis to full commercial due diligence. He has been involved in over 35 commercial due diligence projects in recent years.

Wallage is also an experienced speaker and presenter, regularly chairing, facilitating and speaking at major industry events, webinars, roundtables and dinners.

Philbert Shih is the Founder and Managing Director of Structure Research, an independent Toronto and Singapore-based research and consulting firm devoted to the cloud and data centre infrastructure services markets with a specialization in the hyperscale value chain.

Mr. Shih is based in Toronto and has covered the infrastructure services space for over 20 years. His coverage of the sector is global in scope and extends across the broader Internet infrastructure value chain. He is the conference chair for the annual infra / STRUCTURE summit and heads up the Structure Research consulting practice, which has advised and provided subject matter expertise for transactions across data centre, cloud and managed hosting, with over $3b in value.

Mr. Shih is a regular speaker at industry events and has been quoted in various publications such as The South China Morning Post, The Deal, Data Economy, The Globe and Mail, IT World Canada, National Post, The Cube, Computerworld, InfoWorld, Bizjournals, Data Center

Knowledge, Light Reading, eWeek, Miami Herald, San Antonio Express News and Forbes.

Prior to founding Structure Research in 2011, Mr. Shih was the first hosting infrastructure analyst hired after Tier1 Research was sold to The 451 Group (2005) and spent six years as Senior Analyst for managed hosting and cloud. In this role, Mr. Shih helped launch Tier1’s coverage of hosting and cloud in international markets and was the lead and contributing author to all of the company’s quarterly and bi-annual hosting infrastructure sector reports.

Prior to joining Tier1 Research, Mr. Shih spent more than four years covering the web hosting industry – three of them as Senior Staff Writer for The Web Host Industry Review’s online and print publications. At theWHIR, Mr. Shih covered companies in the SMB and enterprise hosting, cloud and colocation segments.

Mr. Shih holds an MA in Political Science from the University of British Columbia with a specialization in political economic development.

Claude Achcar is the Founder and Managing Partner of Actel Consulting, a highly specialized Tech advisory firm. The company, founded in 2002, differentiates through independent, deep-dive, and hands-on guidance to deliver implementable advisory. Clients include investors, innovators, corporates, telecoms, service providers, and regulators.

Claude has over 30 years of ICT experience. He began his career as an AI Research Associate followed by eleven years in various engineering, marketing, and operations roles with Nortel. Prior to Actel Consulting, Claude was Managing Director and VP Asia at Ciena.

Claude is an engineer by training, holding B.Eng. & M.Eng. (Speech Recognition) degrees from Ecole Polytechnique, and an MBA from McGill University, both in Montreal, Canada.

Fundiswa is currently pursuing her MBA at London Business School. Prior to her MBA, she was an Investment Associate at African Infrastructure Investment Managers which focuses on infrastructure equity investments and development assets across Africa. She was primarily responsible for analysing new investment opportunities, structuring and executing transactions as well as asset management.

Fundiswa has worked across various banking roles, where she was part of the advisory team supporting large and mid-sized corporations, private equity firms, entrepreneurs and governments on executing sell-side and buy-side mandates. She also served her articles at Nedbank on the CA training programme which included rotations across various areas of the corporate and investment bank.

Fundiswa holds a Bachelor of Business Science Honours degree and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Accounting from the University of Cape Town as well as a Post-Graduate Diploma in the Drafting & Interpretation of Contracts from the University of Johannesburg. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2017 and is an Audit & Risk committee member on the board of Equal Education. She is also the first-ever winner of The Tech Capital's 35 Under 35 Award (2022).

João is the founder and editor of The Tech Capital. Winner of the Professional Publishers Association (PPA) 30 Under 30 media award and the Infrastructure Masons IM100 Award 2022, he owns a real passion for the media and has experience across online, print and broadcast. He has reported from over 30 countries worldwide, filming interviews with CEOs of big tech companies and government figures, amongst others. He is the founder and host of the Great Business Minds Podcast and prior to that, João has experienced the reporting industry at Data Economy, which he created for BroadGroup and where he also invented the Finvest Summit (all acquired by Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc in 2017), Capacity Media, Computer Business Review/Tech Monitor, the Daily Mail, Channel 4 News, Channel 4, The Guardian, Antena Lusa and Future Behind.