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Leadership Team
Kevin Timmons is a senior executive who has designed, built and operated some of the world's largest technology infrastructures over his career.
Over the last 9 years, he helped grow the $525M acquisition of CyrusOne into the world’s 3rd largest publicly traded data center REIT, with an enterprise value of over $10B. He was directly responsible for defining and sharing the technology roadmap for the company. He was also responsible for the site selection, design, and construction and operation of CyrusOne’s worldwide datacenter assets.
Prior to CyrusOne, he led Microsoft’s global data center team as GM, Data Center Services. In his 2 years at Microsoft he fundamentally changed the way that the company designed, developed, and operated its worldwide data center assets. Under his leadership, Microsoft opened 4 of the world’s largest datacenters. These facilities were recognized for their innovation and industry-leading cost performance.
Previously Kevin held several positions within the Operations team at Yahoo! He originally joined Yahoo! via the GeoCities acquisition in September 1999 as Director of Operations. He was then promoted to Senior Director in August 2000, and assumed the role of Vice President in February 2006. Primary responsibilities included management of the global production operations team, including the operation of all customer-facing networks, data centers and supporting infrastructure. Prior to that, he was the fourth employee at GeoCities, which was acquired by Yahoo! for $4.6 billion in May 1999.
Kevin’s background also includes over 10 years’ experience in real-time embedded systems software development with several leading aerospace firms such as Lockheed and Marconi Dynamics. He was instrumental in the development of the avionics display systems for the YF-22 fighter program, which was later selected by the Air Force as their next generation fighter platform as the F-22 Raptor.
Kevin received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from the Engineering Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana – Champaign.
Dave Withers, Seasoned entrepreneur, technology executive, multi stage venture investor, Board Member and strategic advisor. Veteran of numerous successful ventures, both as an operator and as an investor. 25 year track record of identifying disruptive technologies, building product and go to market organizations, fund raising, and executing successful exits.
Founder, operator, and executive in the storage, cloud, and SaaS industry. CEO and Co-Founder of Renasar Technologies, an infrastructure software company that was acquired by EMC. VP of Technology for Global Platform Engineering at EMC/Dell post acquisition. Executive leadership roles as an operator at Nebula, Ocarina (acquired by Dell), and Isilon (acquired by EMC), PolyServe (acquired by HP), Access Graphics (acquired by GE), and APC (acquired by Schneider)).
MBA in Finance from NYU, BS in Decision Sciences from Santa Clara University. Board of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley.
Gordy Holterman, Successful investor, entrepreneur and senior bank executive. Founder and CEO of Proelio Capital focused on active investing in fintech companies, creating/growing businesses and building successful JV’s, partnerships and acquisitions with major banks and asset managers. Previously CEO of Overland Advisors, an asset management spin out of Wells Fargo. Oversaw all aspects of business including operations, technology, raising over $2B of AUM, and risk systems. Returned over $4B of balance sheet assets to Wells Fargo ($1B in profits). EVP and Head of Financial Products, Wells Fargo Securities. Expanded and improved products and team to grow profits 10x over 8 years. Built a proprietary investment business and was a key senior leader for the due diligence and subsequent integration of Wachovia’s securities and investment businesses. Began his career as an M&A lawyer for Skadden Arps, options trader at O’Connor & Associates (now UBS) and then COO of Farallon Fixed Income. Lifelong interest in AI, data science and autonomous machine decision-making. While at MIT worked at AI Lab and CS Draper Labs. Stanford Law School: JD, MIT: BS, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
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