Leadership

Chief Executive Officer

Jim is a seasoned senior executive with 30 years of building and operating successful technology start-ups in the internet infrastructure sector. An entrepreneur with deep experience in operating data center services, managed services, and communications networks, Jim has demonstrated success in creating market leadership and delivering superior customer satisfaction.

Prior to joining DataBridge Sites he was the cofounder and CEO of Enterprise Technology Parks, a data center company with locations in the Mid-Atlantic region. In 2013 and 2014 Enterprise Technology Parks was acquired by TierPoint, and Jim joined TierPoint in a senior management capacity. Preceding Enterprise Technology Parks he was on the executive team of Switch and Data (acquired by Equinix), where he helped develop data centers in more than 40 locations throughout North America. Jim started his career at MCI and quickly moved to data networking, fiber, and internet peering point development.

Chief Operating Officer

Wes oversees all operations at DataBridge Sites, as well as compliance and networking. He has been working in IP networking since 2000, which gives him a strong background in network operations that informs his engineering choices to ensure simple, supportable, and reliable solutions.

Before coming to ByteGrid, and then DataBridge Sites, he designed, implemented, and supported the international multi-terabit capacity network platform for Neustar’s SiteProtect (DoS mitigation) product. Prior to that he worked for Time Warner Cable (now Charter Communications) doing Core Network Architecture on a very high-bandwidth multiservice network. He was also heavily involved in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which is the primary standards body for Internet protocols. He started his career at Sprint, which was at the time a Tier One Internet Service Provider offering IP transit and IPVPN services. His tenure at Sprint included several years in Operations before moving to engineering, where he led the deployment of the Cisco CRS-1 router and was heavily involved in the wired network backbone design for Sprint’s initial 4G wireless network infrastructure. He has been working to further IPv6 deployment and usage in every network he has supported since the very early testing phases (the 6bone) at Sprint.

Chief Financial Officer

Keith is an active CPA with more than 14 years of direct experience managing the accounting and finance departments of data centers across the United States.

Keith started his career as a financial fraud investigator for St. Paul Insurance and then went on to lead the accounting function of Performax and then Fusion Sales Partners. In 2006 Keith joined Enterprise Technology Parks as Controller and was promoted to CFO of the start-up Mid-Atlantic data center company. In addition to leading all accounting, treasury and financing aspects of the business, Keith managed the subsequent sale of the company through 2013 and 2014. Keith went on to lead the finance team at ByteGrid prior to taking over as CFO of Agile Data Sites in 2019. Keith is a member of the Maryland Association of CPAs and the American Institute of CPAs.

Principal Systems Engineer

Matt has worked in Systems Engineering in the MSP and cloud services sectors since 2005. As part of the CTO team, Matt uses his expertise to create and implement innovative solutions using the latest principles of hyperconverged computing and software defined datacenters to ensure DataBridge implements best practices to its backing infrastructure and bringing it to the forefront in delivering performance and high availability to its product and service offerings.

Prior to his tenure at DataBridge, Matt has operated in a variety of customer facing technical and leadership roles. As Principal Engineer at CMIT Solutions, he oversaw the NOC team, provided solutions engineering and support to clients, and developed the inhouse systems for the hyperconverged product R&D environment utilizing Proxmox VE and Gluster over Infiniband that provided PoCs and facilitated internal development. At Contour Data Solutions, Matt was a liaison and customer advocate as a Technical Account Engineer providing the technical glue and translation between customer, engineers and sales in addition to providing specification and design for large scale ZFS storage systems intended to back DR and data protection in the company’s cloud offerings. He oversaw the design and deployment of remote large scale and high performance satellite imagery storage, processing and database systems for ZedX Inc. at a cost and performance unmatched by major vendors’ then current offerings. Along the way Matt has also provided executive and technical leadership to non-profit causes he believes in, acting at different times as director of technology, business manager, volunteer chair and consultant for ATG Learning Academy which provides private education and specializes in addressing the needs of students with learning disabilities.

Senior VMWare Infrastructure Engineer

Tim has spent the past 25 years in financial computing designing and supporting environments, applications, and services for government, state, local, and private clientele. For the last 17 years Tim has been a primary VMWare engineer with Northern Trust, taking the company’s VMWare environment from a small developmental app environment into a global, strategic growth platform, hosting mission-critical business and desktop computing worldwide.

Tim has 17 years experience designing and supporting customized VMWare solutions for clients, applications, and services in the US, EMEA and APAC.