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Jeffrey Zygler is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Active Infrastructure. Mr. Zygler brings more than 15 years of institutional real estate experience, during which he has led the development and acquisition of projects in eleven states exceeding $3 billion in value, including over 13 million square feet of build-to-suit transactions for a leading multinational technology and e-commerce company. 

Prior to founding Active Infrastructure, Mr. Zygler was a Partner at Dermody Properties, a national real estate investment and management company, where he ran the company's National Accounts Group. During his tenure at Dermody, Mr. Zygler sourced and led the development of the largest build-to-suit and speculative development transactions in the company's 60-year  history.  Prior to joining Dermody, Mr. Zygler served as the Vice President of Development for KTR Capital Partners until its sale to Prologis in 2015.

Mr. Zygler is a board member of UJA-Federation Young Wall Street Division, has co-chaired several events for the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, and is a member of NAIOP Developing Leaders and NAIOP National Forums – eCommerce II. He holds a B.S. in finance and logistics, transportation and supply chain management from the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

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John Hawkins is the IBM Global Data Center Strategy and Planning Lead. John brings over 20 years and $3B of leasing experience in the data center and commercial real estate fields. John is best known for his work at Telx, where he was the Director of Global Real Estate & Data Center Expansions. During his years at Telx, John expanded the data center portfolio over seven hundred percent and negotiated over $1B+ in leases, leading to the acquisition of Telx by Digital Realty for $1.9 billion. Prior to Telx, John was Vice President of Real Estate and Data Center Logistics at Exenet Technologies, where he was responsible for the complete ownership of a multi-country facility build-out.  Earlier in his career, John was Vice President of International Operations & Real Estate at The Matlen Silver Group, where he opened operations in India and Trinidad.  

John earned his Masters of Real Estate at New York University.

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Duncan Ng is Vice President Solutions Engineering at Vultr leading Global Technical Go To Market covering Presales, Technical Account Management and Partner Engineering.

His organization is responsible for the full customer journey from working with Partners-Alliances and the Direct sales team on the first discovery call, architecting a solution, rolling out a POC, scaling into production, ongoing technical account management and representing the voice of the customer in establishing the roadmap for new products and features.

Extensive experience working in, selling to and partnering with organizations with global footprints including Hyperscalers, Service Providers, OEMs, Telecoms, and AI market leaders.

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George started his first technology publication in 1998, focused on the 'plumbing' of the Internet and has been building and connecting digital infrastructure communities all over the world,

George is fascinated by the sheer scale of the digital infrastructure that is yet to be built, one that will support AI and a new world of accelerated computing; it is 'mission critical' to the future of every industry and every person on the planet and must be done sustainably.

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Alexander Gitlitz, Vice President, Goldman Sachs specializes in Engineering and Critical Systems Operations (ECSO).

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