Devin Donnelly

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PointOne Development names Devin Donnelly as Chief Financial Officer

CFS Partners LLC is pleased to announce the appointment of Devin Donnelly with PointOne Development as Chief Financial Officer. In this role, Mr. Donnelly will accelerate PointOne’s value creation and performance through effective strategic planning, capital raise, market positioning, risk management, and M&A strategy. Mr. Donnelly’s 19 years of experience are a stable footing to start this next journey with PointOne.

Mr. Colin Clish, President at PointOne Development, commented, “We are excited to add Devin to our growing team of proven digital infrastructure leaders. Devin brings a breadth of experience and financial expertise supporting and accelerating the growth of data center platforms. As our CFO, he will play a pivotal role in the next stage of our growth and building out our initial 1GW of capacity.”

Mr. Donnelly’s unique experience includes time at IPI Partners at their inception where he defined processes and actions resulting in the successful formation of real estate investment and development. He finished his time there as the Head of Asset Management, Chicago. Previously Devin worked in investment and finance management with QTS following an early career in Private Equity.

CFS Partners had the privilege to represent PointOne Development in the search for a Chief Financial Officer. Referred by PointOne’s investment bank, CFS was chartered with finding a deep data center subject matter expert and financial leader to lead through a business chapter expected to deploy $6B+ in new data center campus and building development.

CFS Partners LLC is committed to developing genuine relationships to connect companies with the talent they require to compete, grow, and succeed in the digital infrastructure industry. If your company requires strategic talent acquisition planning and execution, please reach out.

Kevin Mammel

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Rowan Names Kevin Mammel as Chief Financial Officer

CFS Partners LLC is pleased to announce the appointment of Kevin Mammel as Chief Financial Officer at Rowan. In this role, Mr. Mammel will proactively advocate for, create, and protect stakeholder equity value through the proficient management and supervision of all financial and risk management. Mr. Mammel is a veteran in the digital infrastructure market to include fiber, network, software, and data center business growth and transformation.

Mr. Mammel brings to Rowan more than 25 years financial experience and knowledge in high growth companies to include Zayo since 2015 which has experienced prolific M&A, corporate reorganizations, integrations, and optimization. Kevin has led a myriad of initiatives during this time to include the definitions of new finance organizations internally to optimize people, process, and procedures to overperform under dramatic growth and change. Most recently, Mr. Mammel was the Chief Financial Officer, Zayo Networks Reporting Segment.

CFS Partners had the privilege to represent Rowan in the search for a Chief Financial Officer. Rowan is in its formative growth stage as it matures its clean energy transition powered land business proposition to hyperscale customers. This model has met with dramatic success requiring a strategic executive leader to define the financial organization, conduct extensive project finance transactions, and manage capital relationships in preparation to lead through a process.

On the occasion your organization requires strategic talent acquisition planning and execution, allow us the privilege of a consultation. Here’s to your continued success.

Involta

John Scarry – https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-g-scarry-357906/

Involta Names John Scarry as Chief Revenue Officer

CFS Partners LLC is pleased to announce the appointment of John Scarry as Chief Revenue Officer with Involta. Mr. Scarry will co-author and execute Involta’s go-to-market strategy to achieve geographic growth, top line revenue, and ebitda targets. Mr. Scarry is a veteran in the data center industry with an extensive and valuable library knowledge and experience building teams to achieve corporate revenue and ebitda objectives.

Mr. Scarry brings over 20 years experience in diverse and progressive chapters and charters with Equinix. John led multiple initiatives to identify, mature, and grow select vertical and geographic markets to include Enterprise, Network Services, Government Solutions, and LATAM. John executed a playbook of talent acquisition and development, strategic partnerships and channel growth, and either creating or developing refreshed go to market strategics resulting in overperformance against targets in each circumstance.

CFS Partners had the privilege to represent Involta in the search for a Chief Revenue Officer. With new ownership and capital provided by The Carlyle Group and new leadership in CEO Brett Lindsey, Involta has embarked on a new chapter and thesis of AI defined networks + colocation. Involta required an accomplished leader in redefining the commercial organization to bring a next generation of product and service offerings to existing and new clients. Involta’s plans require significant capital deployment to invigorate existing IT infrastructure and grow into new markets supporting enterprise and hyperscale demands.

On the occasion your organization requires strategic talent acquisition planning and execution, allow us the privilege of a consultation. Here’s to your continued success.

Royce Thomas

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Edged Energy names Royce Thomas as Chief Revenue Officer

CFS Partners LLC is pleased to announce the appointment of Royce Thomas with Edged Energy as Chief Revenue Officer. In this role, Mr. Thomas will author and execute Edged multiple go-to-market strategies to achieve total revenue plans. Edged is building a first of its kind, gigawatt-scale global network of data centres with waterless cooling, across their entire portfolio in EMEA and the US.

Mr. Royce is an industry veteran with 30 years of experience in global sales, management, relationship development, channel, business development, and marketing. Most recently, Mr. Thomas was President and Chief Business Officer at CTRLS DATACENTERS LTD., India. Where he led sales and marketing across five hyperscale campuses. Prior to CtrlS Royce was leading the team responsible for 25% of Equinix total revenue as Senior Vice President of Strategic Alliances and Global Account Management. Previously he held senior sales leadership roles at Level 3 Communications and Sprint.

CFS Partners is proud to have partnered with Edged Energy in the search for a Chief Revenue Officer. CFS supported Jake Carnemark, CEO at Edged’s parent company, Endeavor Inspired Infrastructure, before he founded Aligned Data Centers, back when he was leading Skanska’s Mission Critical Center of Excellence (COE) where they designed and built the most progressive data centers on the planet. This was a significant hire for Edged and their financial partner, Koch Industries.

On the occasion your organization requires strategic talent acquisition planning and execution, we would be pleased to offer a consultation. Here’s to your continued success.

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DF&I names Tim Leighton as Chief Financial Officer

CFS Partners LLC is pleased to announce the appointment of Tim Leighton as Chief Financial Officer with DF&I, a portfolio company of IPI Partners. Mr. Leighton will lead the strategic financial management, capital planning, and capital deployment for DF&I as the company enters new markets and searches for new growth opportunities.

Scott Bergs, DF&I CEO, noted, “Tim is a great addition to the DF&I team. We so appreciate how CFS Partners took the time to understand what would make the best fit for our next CFO and found the person that embodies those skills, experiences and characteristics.”

As a 25+ year veteran in the telecom and fiber market, Mr. Leighton brings a keen sense of operational excellence with people, processes, and systems. Mr. Leighton was most recently the Senior Vice President Financial Planning and Analysis at Conterra Networks. In his tenure there, Mr. Leighton was instrumental in the execution of capital raises, debt restructurings, and related consent agreements. Mr. Leighton was also responsible for a team in charge of managing financial planning and analysis, corporate development, network cost and internal sales commission functions.

CFS Partners had the privilege to represent DF&I in the search for a Chief Financial Officer during a crucial chapter of their national growth charter. As a leading pure play dark fiber and wholesale infrastructure, DF&I and IPI required both a due diligence subject matter and operational expert to lead a broad consensus to conviction on investment decisions from a myriad of options. As a portfolio company of IPI Partners, DF&I complements other companies engaged in different aspects of the digital infrastructure ecosystem of data centers and connectivity.

On the occasion your organization requires strategic talent acquisition planning and execution, allow us the privilege of a consultation. Here’s to your continued success.

Harvey Cleary names Michael Silla as Senior Vice President Mission Critical Practice Leader

CFS Partners LLC is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Silla with Harvey Cleary Builders as Senior Vice President & Mission Critical Practice Leader. In this role, Mr. Silla is responsible for the development of a Mission Critical Practice to include the authorship and execution of best practices for data center construction management.
Mr. Silla comes into this position with over 15 years of experience in the critical infrastructure industry with diversified roles in private equity, colocation, cloud, enterprise, and hyperscale.

Mr. Silla most recently was the Senior Vice President, Design & Construction for Flexential. In his time there, Mr. Silla aligned the design and construction teams to effectively support Flexential’s change in organizational strategy accommodating wholesale colocation as part of the growth model. Mr. Silla’s scope included leading the Colocation Data Center Delivery Organization responsible for management systems, capital management, design, engineering, construction, and delivery. Prior to Flexential, Mr. Silla was Senior Vice President of Skanska’s Mission Critical Center of Excellence. In addition to leading one of the world’s leading data center construction management programs, Mr. Silla also consulted with Private Equity and other Infrastructure Investment sponsors on strategy, due diligence, and capital planning as they evaluated the digital infrastructure market.

CFS Partners had the privilege to represent Harvey Cleary in the search for a Mission Critical Practice Leader. As one of the most credible and respected General Contractors in the US, Harvey Cleary essentially followed their deep client relationship history into the data center market and decided to formalize the vertical which required a Practice Leader with extensive experience and world class credentials.

On the occasion your organization requires strategic talent acquisition planning and execution, allow us the privilege of a consultation. Here’s to your continued success.

CleanArc Data Centers names Lindsey Bruner as Chief Operating Officer

CFS Partners LLC is pleased to announce the appointment of Lindsey Bruner with CleanArc Data Centers as Chief Operating Officer. In this role, Ms. Bruner will oversee internal operations, implement business strategies, and lead project development for both data centers and renewable energy. Ms. Bruner is well-established in the data center industry with over 20 years of experience in the legal, operational, and renewable energy aspects of the industry.

Ms. Bruner noted, “Increasingly, hyperscalers are demanding power structures that approach zero carbon at every hour of the day. CleanArc is a first mover in putting clean energy power structuring at the center of its design. I am excited to join this team of data center veterans and power structuring experts to help bring unique clean energy solutions to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy at data centers.”

Mr. James Trout, CEO of CleanArc Data Centers remarked, “We are thrilled to have Lindsey join CleanArc Data Centers as Chief Operating Officer. As we work to solve hyperscale customers’ need for innovative clean energy contract structures that approach zero carbon emission, Lindsey’s combined data center and renewable energy industry expertise and experience will prove vital. I look forward to working alongside Lindsey to provide innovative solutions to our hyperscale data center customers.”

Prior to CleanArc, Ms. Bruner was a Vice President of Project Development at CyrusOne. During her tenure, she led strategy, execution, and delivery of the company’s site selection and development projects for both in the U.S. and globally. During these experiences Lindsey gained a unique combination of applicable skillsets and knowledge of sustainable, clean energy data center development which proved highly valued by Clean Arc during their formidable growth stage.

On the occasion your organization requires strategic talent acquisition planning and execution, allow us the privilege of a consultation. Here’s to your continued success.

IPI Partners names Gavin Flynn as Director, Development Optimization

CFS Partners LLC is pleased to announce the appointment of Gavin Flynn at IPI as Director, Development Optimization. In this role, Mr. Flynn oversees the development of IPI’s strategic data center real estate investments, capital planning for expansion, and asset optimization performance relative to IPI’s fund and return thesis.

In his previous position, Mr. Flynn oversaw Linesight’s business operations for the Americas Central Region where he led a team of over 40 professionals to represent and support global hyperscale client development program’s financial and contractual controls. Mr. Flynn was accountable for new business development, revenue target achievement, client and business management, operational execution, and strategic growth initiatives. Mr. Flynn has a broad array of knowledge in the data center industry with a unique combination of experiences across business development, operational, legal, financial, and risk at scale.

CFS Partners had the privilege to represent IPI Partners in the search for a Director, Development Optimization. As IPI Partners’ portfolio of digital infrastructure companies and investments grow, they required a central point of knowledge and controls to measure and manage performance, success, and variances. Mr. Flynn possessed not only a unique set of technical credentials, he demonstrated the business and financial acumen to essentially take IPI’s idea for this role and formalize it into his own vision and definition.

On the occasion your organization requires strategic talent acquisition planning and execution, allow us the privilege of a consultation. Here’s to your continued success.