Jim has served as President and CEO of Vantage Data Centers from its inception in 2010, bringing to bear over two decades of wholesale data center design and operational expertise to this first–ever next–gen data center company. Prior to Vantage, he served as SVP, Portfolio and Technical Operations, with full P&L responsibility, for Digital Realty Trust, a publicly held wholesale data center company. He has held senior C–level positions in the data center vertical at Proferian, CoreSite and TeraSpace Networks. Jim is a Founding member of the private REIT, Security Capital Industrial Trust, an operating subsidiary of Security Capital Group, which later launched an initial public offering to become ProLogis, the world's largest public REIT of industrial facilities globally.

Jim holds a Bachelor of Science, Chemical and Materials Engineering, from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Jim currently lives in San Francisco.

As Vice President Finance and Corporate Strategy for Vantage Data Centers, Patrick is responsible for financial operations and strategy, including treasury, cash management, financial planning, financial reporting, accounting, tax, investor relations, human resources and risk management. Prior to joining Vantage in 2010, he served as Assistant Controller at Digital Realty Trust, a publicly held wholesale data center company, where he was responsible for global property and corporate accounting, external reporting, technical accounting, global revenue recognition, Sarbanes–Oxley compliance and finance merger and acquisition integration. Prior to that he spent 5 years at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, in its U.S. real estate and technology groups.

Patrick holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Oregon and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

As Director of Engineering and Construction for Vantage Data Centers, Jen manages design engineering, construction and quality control. Jen was a project executive, project manager, engineer of record and design engineer in the mechanical contracting industry for ten years. She was able to enact design changes which resulted in reduced capital expenditures and operating expenses. Her dedication to both efficiency and reliability from design through operations has led to innovative data center delivery and the development of new technology applications.

Jen holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo. She is a LEED AP, licensed Mechanical P.E., member of ASHRAE and SVLG.

As Director of Technical Services for Vantage Data Centers, Tony manages Program Management, Operations Technologies (in support of Operations)and IT. Prior to joining Vantage, Tony managed corporate data centers for PeopleSoft | Oracle, Autodesk, NetApp and Data Center Services at Microsoft's San Francisco Bay Area facilities.

Tony is an active member of several data center professional organizations and currently resides in San Francisco, California.

As Vice President for Vantage Data Centers, Jeff directs and manages the Vantage sales strategy, team and processes including training programs. Jeff has more than 16 years of IT and business leadership experience. Most recently he was the vice president responsible for Cisco’s services business in the US and Canada. Previously he served as president of NEC Unified Solutions, a $500M provider of information technology hardware, software and solutions serving a variety of industries. Earlier in his career Jeff led sales at Perot Systems and EDS as well as consulting with Coopers & Lybrand.

Jeff is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and served in a variety of operational assignments around the world.

As Chief Marketing Officer for Vantage Data Centers, Greg manages all marketing activities, including advertising, direct marketing, press and analyst activities, messaging strategy and positioning, marketing events and the company website. Greg was formerly Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Infoblox and Vice President of Marketing at Blue Lane Technologies (acquired by VMware). Previously he held marketing executive roles at Juniper Networks, Redline Networks (acquired by Juniper), IntruVert Networks (acquired by McAfee), ShoreTel (IPO) and Verizon (then GTE). He has spoken at Interop, Cisco Live and Future in Review on topics related to virtualization, networking and cloud computing.

Greg has a BA from Reed College and an MA from The University of Texas at Austin.

As Vice President of Engineering for Vantage Data Centers, Jeff architects and engineers all electrical and controls solutions. Jeff has worked to consultatively engineer, optimize, and troubleshoot numerous mission critical data center projects over the last ten years for numerous Fortune 100 businesses. Jeff constantly strives to create architectures simplifying the service delivery to a data center while improving overall performance efficiency. Coupling his electrical engineering expertise with a programming background, Jeff’s insight to the system performance benefits of a tightly integrated controls solution optimizes our data centers to achieve industry-leading energy efficiency.

Jeff worked previously in an architecture and engineering capacity on projects for Digital Realty Trust, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, and eBay.

As Director of Operations for Vantage Data Centers, Andy manages Operations, Facilities Management, Customer Service and Security. Andy was recently Western Region Operations Manager for Digital Realty Trust. Previously he held a variety of positions including Senior Facilities Manager, Operations Manager, Assistant Chief Engineer and Lead Man for companies such as EDS, Trammell Crow, DFW Hilton, Hotel Crescent Court, Plano General Hospital and Lubbock General Hospital.

For more than 23 years Andy has been focused on day to day operations of data centers of all sizes in a multitude of locations worldwide, including operating and capital budgets, preventive maintenance programs, creating and implementing policies and procedures, reporting structure and tracking.