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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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ColoHouse Appoints New CEO, Jeremy Pease

Services and infrastructure industry veteran, Jeremy Pease, joins ColoHouse as CEO to lead M&A expansion strategy and accelerate growth 

MIAMI, FLORIDA – October 17, 2022 –  ColoHouse, a leading retail colocation, cloud, bare metal, security, and services provider announces Jeremy Pease as the new Chief Executive Officer replacing current interim-CEO, Kevin Reed, who will continue his duties as a member of the Board of Directors.

Jeremy Pease has over 20 years of experience specializing in the data center and cloud hosting sector in leading and developing successful infrastructure teams in the IT industry. Jeremy was recently the SVP of Managed Services at Databank and previously COO at Aptum. Jeremy has directed product and technology innovation throughout his career while facilitating operational functions to help secure an effective growth strategy. With leadership experience throughout the industry, Jeremy proved to be the ideal fit for the ColoHouse executive position.

“The Board of Directors and Valterra Partners could not be more excited about Jeremy coming on board as CEO,” says Kevin Reed, member of the Board of Directors and Principal at Valterra Partners. “With a proven track record in scaling service provider organizations, bringing to market leading product offerings and delivering consistent revenue growth, Jeremy is the ideal fit for ColoHouse as it continues to execute future acquisitions and growth strategies. We believe that Jeremy brings a unique perspective on the current market and a strong vision to build next generation data centers and cloud service platforms. Valterra Partners along with the ColoHouse Board and the rest of the senior leadership team are excited to partner with Jeremy as we move into the next phase of our growth trajectory.”

“I am extremely enthusiastic about joining the ColoHouse team with the support of the Board of Directors,” adds Jeremy Pease, new CEO of ColoHouse. “ColoHouse has created a unique and exciting opportunity to build substantial growth with a customer centric platform enabling colocation, cloud and connectivity services to the market. The leadership team has done an amazing job bringing the teams together and building a strong foundation with the integration efforts translating into a solid growth year for the organization. I look forward to working with the entire organization and our investors to build a company that people want to work for and customers want to work with on their cloud and edge journey.”

Jeremy’s appointment fortifies the ColoHouse executive team and will lead ColoHouse into the next phase of strategic growth. Jeremy’s vision and past achievements in the data center industry will reinforce ColoHouse’s mission to deliver the highest quality IT services and provide customers with world-class customer support.

 

 

 

 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-pease-a53b972/

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