Alexandra Schless has a long and distinguished track record in the datacenter industry. In the past two decades, she transformed a start-up business into a market leader and as a Vice President she led international sales teams. She is now CEO of NorthC Datacenters where she focuses on growing the business, while doing so in a sustainable and socially responsible way. “Sustainability is the key to future growth and constant technological innovation is the key to sustainability,” according to Schless.

Ivonne Valdes is a Transformational Global sales leader with more than 30 years of expertise in Mission Critical Datacenter, Enterprise and Cloud. Her drive to keep learning helps her passionately identify market opportunities and develop precision GTM strategies to transform and accelerate business. She is currently in charge of the company’s top segment—with customers such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Apple.

With more than 35 years of experience in corporate finance, accounting and administrative management, Patty Sewell is the CFO of Sabey. In her current role, Sewell is a multi-functional member of Sabey’s Executive Leadership Team responsible for setting the Company’s financial strategy to support its long-term goals. As an executive leader, Sewell is passionate about developing future leaders and instilling in them the organization’s core values.

Shalini Sharma is the Senior Vice President, General Counsel, at Vantage Data Centers. She is an accomplished leader with more than 20 years of international corporate legal experience and 15 years of experience in global financial technology. Sharma’s passions include her children and mentoring young and diverse attorneys.

Shelagh Montgomery is a 25-year sales veteran of the Internet and data centers industries. She is a founder and executive sponsor of QTS’ Women Inspiring Leadership Group and was recently recognized for her efforts by Women In Technology (WIT) with a nomination for the 2020 Woman of the Year in STEAM.

Sonal A. Patel leads marketing for Verizon Partner Solutions and is responsible for developing the winning strategy and vision for the global wholesale business unit, and management of Verizon Wholesale’s product portfolio to drive revenue growth, gain market share and also inspire thought leadership through the development of key partnerships, targeting new customer segments and launching new products and services. Patel’s prior cross-functional experiences span business operations, finance, accounting and sales operations with focus on Consumer & Business segments.

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As the global head of platform, growth and marketing at Digital Realty, Tony Bishop focuses on building and growing the leading global data center platform to best address data gravity and digital transformations for the company’s enterprise, service provider and hyperscale customers. Prior to Digital Realty, Bishop worked in senior leadership positions at Equinix, 451 Research and Morgan Stanley. He is a 2nd Degree Fellow at Infrastructure Masons and the author of “Next Generation Data Centers in Financial Services: Driving Extreme Efficiency and Effective Cost Savings.”

Dave McCrory ran a data strategy and consulting business before he joined Digital Realty.

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