Alex Bornyakov

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.

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Corey Dyer

Corey Dyer is Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), with responsibility for sales, leasing and marketing efforts across the organization. Prior to joining Digital Realty, Corey served as Senior Vice President, Sales, Americas at Equinix, where he had responsibility for sales across the Americas region. Before joining Equinix, Corey worked at Hewlett-Packard, where he served as Vice President, Storage Sales, Canada and led the firm's Canadian storage business. Previously, he held various sales and sales leadership positions at Dell, primarily in the server, software and peripheral businesses. Corey has over 25 years of experience as a sales leader with a track record of building and driving sales and marketing operations at leading technology companies. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Wake Forest University.

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Heather Paduck

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.

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Anubhav Raj

Anubhav is an expert in investment banking, IPOs and financial and operational strategy. As the Chief Financial Officer for Aligned, Anubhav is responsible for the company’s financial and operational strategy. He manages the development and monitoring of control systems that preserve company assets, reduce risk and report accurate financial results. Prior to Aligned, Anubhav was the Senior Vice President at TIER REIT overseeing Capital Markets and Finance for the organization.

He was also the Treasurer for CyrusOne overseeing Investor Relations, FP&A, Procurement, M&A and Capital Markets for the organization. While at CyrusOne he helped manage the company’s IPO and numerous other transactions, successfully raising over $3.5B in capital. Prior to CyrusOne he worked as a management consultant within Deloitte’s Strategy and Operations practice, working with clients across the Consumer and Industrial Products, Manufacturing and Healthcare and Life Sciences industries. His primary focus was on corporate growth strategy, M&A and finance transformation, helping foster profitable expansion for clients through an executable strategy.

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Michael Tobin OBE

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Pierre Maitre

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Stephanie Liston

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.”

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Matt Evans

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.

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Krupal Raval

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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