The 2024 finalists and winner were selected by the iMasons Education Committee.
Winner
Bryan Darby
QTS Data Centers
Bryan Darby is a transformational executive with more than 20 years of proven success developing and propelling near and long-term strategies for continued business growth. Throughout his career, he has earned a reputation as a trusted leader and advisor, steering restructuring, optimization, transformation, and workforce development efforts at owned and leased data centers for startups, small and medium-sized businesses, and enterprise organizations.
He is currently the Vice President of Strategic Technology Initiatives at QTS Data Centers and leads the education initiative for the Phoenix Chapter of iMasons.
Through Bryan’s involvement with the iMasons Phoenix Chapter, he has worked with Maricopa Community Colleges to create a new degree program in data centers that will help grow the pipeline of talent in one of the digital infrastructure industry’s fastest growing markets. In addition, he has created opportunities for data center industry professionals in Arizona to engage with community college and high school students, including opportunities to teach courses at local community colleges and to participate in a monthly speaker series hosted at community colleges.
Finalists
Ana Luiza Rodrigues
Scala Data Centers
Eleanor Smalley
Jason Learning
George Rockett
Data Center Dynamics
Sophie Parker
Pure DC