QUANTUM LOOPHOLE - Key Persons


CHIEF REAL

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Advisory Board
  • ESTATE OFFICER

Craig Weick

Job Titles:
  • EXECUTIVE ADVISOR

Gary Wojtaszek

Job Titles:
  • MEMBER of the BOARD
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Gary Wojtaszek is widely acknowledged across the global technology industry and capital markets as an exemplary business strategist and master motivator for organizations that achieve epic goals. Regarded as a passionate and upbeat leader, he has earned a track record for spearheading global expansions, initial public offerings (IPOs), reorganizations, leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and financial turnarounds for multibillion-dollar companies, including CyrusOne, Cincinnati Bell, Agere Systems, General Motors and Laureate Education Systems (formerly Sylvan Learning). In addition to his financial and business acumen, Gary develops high-impact teams for organizations that serve iconic brands, employees and shareholders, supported by market-leading performance. Among his long list of esteemed customers served include Microsoft, Google, Amazon, IBM, Alibaba and many more across the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America. He is an acknowledged industry leader with regular appearances on "Mad Money", Bloomberg Radio, WSJ, Barron's, Forbes and CNBC's Squawk Box. As a global business leader, Gary most recently served as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Member of the Board of Directors (BOD) for CyrusOne, a leading international technology company whose IPO he spearheaded in 2013, leveraging the legacy assets of 140-year-old Cincinnati Bell and capitalizing on the demand for cloud, artificial intelligence and data analytic products. Today CyrusOne is one of the fastest-growing real estate income trusts (REITS) in the US and under Gary's leadership it expanded from $1.1 billion to $11 billion in enterprise value (2600 percent) in only six years. This massive growth positioned CyrusOne as one of only 500 investment-grade companies in the world and one of only 25 investment-grade organizations with $1 billion or less in revenues positioning CyrusOne as a low-risk, high-value stock. In less than 10 years, CyrusOne grew to a globally scaled company with best-in-class revenue growth and operations in Europe, Latam and Asia, and under his expertise, Gary drove enterprise value from $0.4B to $11.0B and a 400% share price from $19 at the IPO launch in 2013 to $78 per share while increasing the dividend by more than 250 percent. Cyrus One serves nearly 50 percent of Fortune 20 and 190 plus Fortune 100 companies with 45 data centers and 10 million square feet of income-producing real estate. In addition to Gary's deep operational expertise, he has been involved in a number of additional IPOs, including, Agere Systems NASDAQ: AGR (spin and IPO from Lucent Technology NYSE: LU), Delphi Systems NYSE:DPH (spin and IPO from General Motors NYSE:GM), and leveraged buyout of Laureate Education (NASDAQ: LAUR, formerly Sylvan Learning). Sought after for his expertise in data center markets, market expertise and business development, Gary serves on the board of directors for GDS (Nasdaq: GDS), China's largest and fastest growing data center company where his partnership of CyrusOne and GDS enabled GDS to land Chinese internet giants Alibaba and Tencent in the U.S. with the expansion of datacenters of Microsoft and JP Morgan in China. Additionally he serves on the board of Poema Global (NASDAQ: PPGHU) which is a Hong Kong based investment fund that invests in high growth technology investments. Gary holds a Master of Business Administration in finance and accounting from Columbia University. Graduating magna cum laude, he holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University, where he was an active member the oldest academic honor society in the United States, Phi Betta Kappa. He is a national judge for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the year program, serves on the board of Columbia University Lang Center, and Southern Methodist School of Engineering. He has won several awards including EY's Entrepreneur of the Year for the Southwest, Fortune Best Places to Work, and Stevie Awards among others.

Jay Adelson

Job Titles:
  • EXECUTIVE ADVISOR

Josh Snowhorn - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • FOUNDER
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Josh values approachability, accessibility, collaboration, innovation and growth. These qualities guided Josh's leadership in the interconnection industry over the last 20 years and building over $10B of value along the way. He has pretty much seen and done it all through key founding and executive positions at Terremark, Verizon (NYSE: VZ), Cincinnati Bell, and CyrusOne (Nasdaq: CONE). Josh founded the Global Peering Forum, the annual meeting for the Internet interconnection and peering community where he serves on the board of directors. Josh serves on the advisory board of Telescent, the finest automated interconnection machine on the planet. He is an avid speaker at conferences globally including networking, data centers, real estate, edge networking, and quantum computing. He has been a surfer for 39 years and a snowboarder for 25 years, traveling the globe in pursuit of experiences. Josh loves cars and racing. He founded TrackRats, LLC, the premier car club for track enthusiasts.

Mike Benham

Job Titles:
  • INVESTOR
  • MEMBER of the BOARD
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Mike Benham started his career as an energy trader with Vitol SA, now the largest energy trading firm in the world. During a near 20 year career at the privately held firm, Michael rose to partner level and helped develop the company from a small barge trading firm in Rotterdam to the multi billion dollar firm that it is today. A Primary role was as head of the North Sea Crude Oil trading team, directly responsible for the company's daily …

Rich Paul-Hus

Job Titles:
  • SVP, SALES & DEVELOPMENT
Rich is Senior Vice President at Quantum Loophole covering sales, public relations and lobbying. Rich formerly served as the CEO of HUSdigital LLC where he is responsible for strategy, business development and growth initiatives. On a mission to build a business based on two key areas: building a corporate culture that aligned team-member, customer and corporate interests; and attracting world-class talent to democratize data in the digital ad space. Prior to taking on his role at HUSdigital, Rich gained experience in Whoop Wireless and then Hypower, where he served as SVP Business Development, helping to take the company from startup to over $100 million in annual revenue. Rich has given his time to numerous charitable and political entities throughout his career. He is a graduate of Stetson University and is married with four children.

Rick Keiner - CFO

Job Titles:
  • CFO
Rick's career has been almost a perfect split. 10 years in accounting, then jumping to corporate finance for the back nine. He began his career and was "baptized by fire" in the public accounting world, at Deloitte. He later joined Cincinnati Bell, a regional telecom provider. He worked for 5 years in accounting, investor relations and SEC reporting groups. He then leapt over to the finance side of the house, assuming the Director of Finance role for the Cell Phone division, which at the time was bringing in $300M in annual revenues. After a few years Rick was selected for the team responsible for spinning off in an IPO, the Data Center business, CyrusOne (Nasdaq: CONE). He sat at the helm of the mighty Financial Planning and Analysis group for this $800M annual revenue Data Center REIT. Rick is a self-admitted golf addict, although his game likely won't reflect this, should you join him at the links. He loves his biennial Canadian canoe fishing trips, an occasional skydive, and watching his fantasy football team struggle mightily. He loves spending time with his family and friends, whether in his hometown of Cincinnati or his new home in Jacksonville Florida.

Scott Noteboom - CTO

Job Titles:
  • CTO
Scott believes that the only place for a rebel is a revolution. At Quantum Loophole, Scott serves on the front lines of the Decarbonization Revolution. His mission is to help enable next-generation data centers that autonomously orchestrate supply and demand between clean energy and cloud computing resources. His intention: Better, faster, cleaner and cheaper- pick four. A former mercenary in the Cloud Revolution, Scott served as VP of Operations at Yahoo! and Head of Global Infrastructure at Apple. He led deployment and operation of two of the world's largest clouds, driving innovation in the data center and distributed compute space. In backing the Clean Energy Revolution, data centers are breaking away from their dirty energy-hog past. Scott served as CEO and Founder of Litbit, and earlier grew a small underground bulletin board (bbs) into a sizable Internet Service Provider (ISP.) Scott likes to brag about creating one of the world's first Voice over IP (VOIP) companies, learning that being first isn't always worth bragging about. A wise person once said that "rebels die." Scott's been working to prove that wrong ever since.

Sylvia Kang

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Advisory Board
  • CHIEF REAL ESTATE OFFICER
Sylvia Kang is Chief Real Estate Officer at Quantum Loophole. She brings more than 15 years of experience in site selection, energy and lease contract negotiations, financial analytical modeling and energy management to her current role. At Quantum Loophole, Sylvia leads international and domestic data center site selection, capacity procurement and energy management. Her strategic oversight is critical to driving Quantum Loophole's disruptive, first-of-its-kind gigawatt-scale, master plan data center city development approach that leverages environmental sustainability at its core. With experience hailing from Cyrus One, Microsoft, and Yahoo! combined with previous experience from PriceWaterhouseCoopers and KPMG, her consultative approach and understanding of the complexities to high-stakes decision making, positions her strengths effectively both internally and externally with clients. Sylvia's energy, commitment, and excellence show consistently in the engagement and respect she both offers and earns every day. Throughout her career, Sylvia has led teams to drive tens of millions of dollars in data center development cost savings. She has negotiated a multitude of data center service agreements, single-tenant and wholesale capacity leases and was a key driver behind industry-leading legislative changes. Prior to joining Quantum Loophole, Sylvia served as Vice President of Site Selection and Acquisition for Cyrus One where she led the evaluation, recommendation and acquisition of portfolio data center sites that are designed, constructed and operated to drive the lowest total cost of ownership. While serving in this capacity, Sylvia drove Texas and Arizona legislative changes for data center infrastructure and equipment and other proprietary incentives. While at Microsoft, Sylvia served in a pioneering role to develop the data center analytics team. She implemented the adoption of a single consistent methodology to evaluate the company's global data center portfolio; established a competitive philosophy of lease vs. build analytics to drive build costs lower; and created and implemented a total cost of ownership model to evaluate site selections, equipment selections and design options. Before entering the data center profession, Sylvia spent over a decade as a tax advisor with seven years in state and local tax practices at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and KPMG. As a result of her role and experiences at PwC and KPMG, Sylvia has helped pass data center favorable legislation in over 10 states. Passionate about cost analytics and value engineering data center designs, Sylvia's name in the industry is now synonymous with the development of intelligent, leading-edge processes for data center site selection with careful integration of civil, utility, engineering, tax, finance and legal requirements. Sylvia's accomplishments serve as an inspiration to young women everywhere who are interested in pursuing STEM fields as well as serving in executive leadership roles while also achieving work-life balance. When she is not driving lower TCO data center site solutions, you will find her snowboarding or skiing in Tahoe with her daughter, Taylor. She remains steadfast in her commitment to mentorship, having conceptualized and developed teams from incubation to maturity. She also demonstrates daily her dedication to cross-team collaboration across divisions and organizations to ensure decision and implementation excellence.

Tom Daly

Job Titles:
  • INVESTOR
  • MEMBER of the BOARD
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Tom Daly is a global internet infrastructure professional with 20+ years experience in network architecture, operations, and business management. Tom understands how the Internet works at scale, from the fiber in the ground to complex global distributed systems and the protocols in-between (including BGP, DNS, and HTTP). Tom has gained recognition from the technical community as an expert in these areas, having a key role in the architecture, design, and deployment of Fastly and Dyn's global networks, spanning across more than 20 countries and 6 continents around the world. Tom loves to speak about core Internet infrastructure, and has spoken at NANOG, Velocity Conference, and Surge on related topics. Most recently, Tom served as SVP, Infrastructure at Fastly, the only content delivery network (CDN) that gives businesses complete control over how they serve content, unprecedented access to real-time performance analytics, and the ability to cache frequently changing content at the edge. Tom was responsible for capacity planning and deployment of the Fastly CDN, overseeing datacenter operations, network engineering, and worldwide procurement / logistics. Prior to Fastly, Tom was co-founder of Dynamic Network Services ("Dyn", a company offering Internet Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), including Managed DNS and Email Delivery services. As co-founder, Tom wore many hats, including engineer, architect, chief technology officer, chief scientist, company evangelist, executive, and board member. Tom has a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Bentley University.

Tom Natelli

Job Titles:
  • INVESTOR
  • MEMBER of the BOARD
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • CEO and Principal Owner of Natelli Communities
  • INVESTOR and BOARD MEMBER - CEO - NATELLI COMMUNITIES
Tom Natelli is the CEO and principal owner of Natelli Communities, a privately held real estate investment and development concern with corporate offices in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The company and its affiliated entities are engaged in the acquisition, development and construction of master planned communities, comprising residential, retail and employment uses, principally in Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee. The company has earned numerous industry and environmental awards for its development activities, including the ULI Award for Excellence for Large …

Ty Newell

Job Titles:
  • INVESTOR
  • MEMBER of the BOARD
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Managing Director for TPG Real Estate Partners
Ty Newell is a Managing Director for TPG Real Estate Partners (TREP), the real estate arm of TPG Capital, and is based in San Francisco. Mr. Newell previously served on the Board of Directors of Evergreen Industrial Properties, a $1Bn light industrial platform, and currently serves as a member of the Advisory Circle of Community Housing Partnership, a provider of supportive housing to those experiencing homelessness in San Francisco Prior to joining TREP in 2012, Mr. Newell worked in both the Investment Banking and Private Equity Investing arms of Morgan Stanley Real Estate and as a Finance Analyst for Developers Diversified Realty, a publicly traded REIT. Mr. Newell received his BA degree in Economics with a certificate in Markets and Management studies from Duke University, where he graduated cum laude.