Our Team

Marc Ganzi

CEO, Digital Colony, President & CEO, Colony Capital

Marc C. Ganzi is President and Chief Executive Officer of Colony Capital, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Colony. He is also a founder and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Bridge Holdings, a leading global investor and owner of mobile and internet infrastructure.

In July 2019, Digital Bridge was acquired by Colony Capital to become the premier platform for digital infrastructure and real estate investment, and Mr. Ganzi was announced as Colony Capital CEO, Thomas J. Barrack, Jr.’s successor. At the time of the acquisition, Digital Bridge managed nearly $20 billion of global digital infrastructure assets, directly, through Digital Colony Partners, and pro forma for Digital Colony Partners’ pending acquisition of Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ZAYO).

Prior to Digital Bridge, Mr. Ganzi was the founder and CEO of Global Tower Partners (“GTP”), which grew from inception in 2003 to become one of the largest privately-owned tower companies in the U.S. when it was sold to American Tower Corporation in 2013 for $4.8 billion. At GTP, Mr. Ganzi executed a series of strategic acquisitions, build-to-suit agreements with wireless carriers and financings in the credit markets.

Prior to the formation of GTP, Mr. Ganzi worked as a consulting partner for DB Capital Partners in New York City from 2000 to 2002 where he was tasked with overseeing the institution’s investments in the Latin American tower sector. Prior to his tenure at DB Capital, Mr. Ganzi was the President and co-founder of Apex Site Management, one of the largest third-party managers of wireless and wireline communication sites in the United States. Apex merged with SpectraSite Communications in 2000 to create one of the largest telecommunications site portfolios in the United States at the time.

Mr. Ganzi has served on the boards of numerous corporations, including: Apex Site Management, Global Tower Partners, Olympus Outdoor Media, Mexico Tower Partners, Vertical Bridge, DataBank, Vantage Data Centers, Andean Telecom Partners and ExteNet Systems.

Mr. Ganzi received a B.S. from the Wharton School of Business in 1993. He was a Board Member of the Wireless Infrastructure Association from 2008 to 2017 and served as Chairman from 2009 to 2011. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, the Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee of the Federal Communications Commission, and he currently serves on the board of the Aspen Valley Ski Club.

Ben Jenkins

Chief Investment Officer

Ben Jenkins is Chief Investment Officer of Digital Colony. Mr. Jenkins is also the Co-Founder of Digital Bridge Holdings and the former Chairman of GTP. In July 2019, Digital Bridge was acquired by Colony Capital to become the premier platform for digital infrastructure and real estate investment. Prior to forming Digital Bridge, Mr. Jenkins was a Senior Managing Director and head of the Hong Kong office for The Blackstone Group. During his 12 years at Blackstone, Mr. Jenkins led over a dozen private equity investments (including GTP) across a range of industries and geographies, including telecommunications deals in developed and emerging markets.

Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Jenkins was an associate at Saunders, Karp and Megrue (now Apax) and a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley.

Mr. Jenkins currently serves on the Board of Directors of Digita, ExteNet, Mexico Tower Partners and Vertical Bridge.

Mr. Jenkins received a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Stanford University in 1993 and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School in 1999.

Justin Chang

Managing Director

Justin Chang is a Managing Director, Head of Asia at Digital Colony. Mr. Chang is responsible for the identification, evaluation, consummation and management of new investments of Digital Colony.

Prior to his current role, Mr. Chang served as Global Head of Private Equity for Colony Capital, Inc. He also served as the Chief Executive Officer of Colony American Homes from its founding in 2012 to its merger with Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust in January 2016 and served on the Board of Trustees of Colony Starwood Homes (NYSE: SFR) from January 2016 until June 2017.

Prior to joining Colony Capital in 2010, Mr. Chang was a partner with TPG Capital, an international private equity investment firm, which he joined in 1993. At TPG, Mr. Chang led private equity investments across a broad range of industries including consumer products, financial services, healthcare, real estate, technology and telecommunications in multiple geographies in North America and Asia.

Mr. Chang currently serves on the Board of Directors of DataBank, Vantage YieldCo, and Fly Blade, Inc.

Mr. Chang received his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Yale University in 1989 and his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1993.

Jon Mauck

Managing Director

Jon Mauck is a Managing Director at Digital Colony.  Mr. Mauck has 20 years of experience investing in, advising and operating communications infrastructure businesses.  Mr. Mauck leads the data center investment strategy at Digital Colony and is responsible for the identification, evaluation, consummation, and management of new investments in the data center sector on a global basis.

Previously, Mr. Mauck was a partner in IO Data Centers, a privately held data center company, that developed and operated over 1.5 million square feet of data center space across North America, Europe, and Asia.  Mr. Mauck was also a Managing Director and the Global Head of the Technology Infrastructure group at Citigroup’s Investment Bank.

Mr. Mauck currently serves on the Board of Directors of Vantage North America, Vantage Europe and Scala Data Centers.

Mr. Mauck was an attorney focused on mergers and acquisitions and received a Bachelor of Arts, with honors, in Economics from George Mason University in 1993 and a Juris Doctor, with distinction, from Boston College in 1997.

Kevin Smithen

Managing Director, Global Head of Strategy and Capital Formation

Kevin Smithen is a Managing Director and Global Head of Strategy and Capital Formation at Digital Colony and Colony Capital.  Mr. Smithen has over 25 years of experience in the global communications services and digital infrastructure sectors and plays a leading role in the firm’s deal sourcing, fundraising and co-investment efforts. In addition, Mr. Smithen is responsible for managing relationships with certain strategic customers worldwide.

Prior to Digital Colony, Mr. Smithen worked in the equity research division of Macquarie Securities (USA) Inc., most recently as Managing Director, Telecom Services, and Infrastructure and as Sector Head for TMT. He has been recognized by StarMine, Bloomberg and Institutional Investor as a leading analyst and thought leader in this industry.

Previously, he worked as a senior analyst and Portfolio Manager for the Lazard Global Opportunities Fund and the Lazard TMT Advantage Fund. He was also the first investment analyst at Coatue Capital, a leading TMT sector hedge fund. Mr. Smithen began his career as an investment banker at Smith Barney, Inc. (Citigroup) in the Media and Telecommunications Group.

Mr. Smithen currently serves on the Board of Directors of Aptum Technologies and Beanfield Metroconnect.

Mr. Smithen received a Bachelor of Arts in History, Middle East, and European Policy, magna cum laude, with distinction from Duke University in 1995.

Steven Sonnenstein

Managing Director

Steven Sonnenstein is a Managing Director at Digital Colony. Mr. Sonnenstein is an accomplished telecommunications infrastructure executive with over 24 years of global mergers and acquisitions, asset management and operations experience. Mr. Sonnenstein is responsible for the origination, evaluation, completion, and ongoing asset management of new investments for Digital Colony on a global basis.

Prior to joining Digital Colony, Mr. Sonnenstein was a Senior Director at Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), one of Canada’s largest pension investment managers, where he created a telecommunications infrastructure asset class within the broader infrastructure group.

Before joining PSP Investments, Mr. Sonnenstein worked for Brookfield Asset Management in its Private Equity and Infrastructure Groups with a particular focus on and experience in South America. Prior to that, Mr. Sonnenstein spent several years working in mergers and acquisitions and distressed advisory.

Mr. Sonnenstein shares management oversight of Andean Telecom Partners and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Aptum Technologies, Highline do Brasil, Beanfield Metroconnect and Cyclone.

Mr. Sonnenstein received a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University in 1996, and a post graduate degree in Chartered Accountancy.

Tom Yanagi

Managing Director

Tom Yanagi is a Managing Director at Digital Colony. Mr. Yanagi is an experienced investment professional with over 20 years of principal investing and asset management experience. Mr. Yanagi leads the Capital Markets activities for Digital Colony and has raised over $20 billion of financings supporting Digital Colony’s acquisition activities and portfolio company capital needs.

Prior to joining Digital Colony, Mr. Yanagi was the Head of the Communications Infrastructure Team in New York for Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (“MIP”). During his 13 years with MIP, Mr. Yanagi led a number of investments in sectors including telecommunications, energy and transportation.  Most notably, he was responsible for MIP’s investment in Global Tower Partners (GTP) and was involved with the oversight and management of that investment through to the sale to American Tower in October of 2013.  In addition to leading transactions, Mr. Yanagi maintained an asset management role and served on the Board of Directors for a number of MIP portfolio companies, including GTP. Prior to MIP, Mr. Yanagi worked in private equity at Nomura Securities and Madison Investment Partners.

Mr. Yanagi serves on the Board of Directors of DataBank. Mr. Yanagi received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Rutgers College in 1989 and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1997.

Jeff Ginsberg

Managing Director, Chief Administrative Officer

Jeff Ginsberg is a Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Digital Colony. Mr. Ginsberg has more than 32 years of entrepreneurial and executive experience in the telecom infrastructure and services, real estate, and private equity sectors.

Prior to joining Digital Colony, Mr. Ginsberg was a Managing Director and Operating Partner of Mistral Equity Partners, a consumer-focused private equity fund.

Before joining Mistral in 2008, Mr. Ginsberg was Executive Chairman of InfoHighway Communications, a telecommunications services provider, and CEO/co-founder of its predecessor entity Eureka Broadband.

Prior to co-founding Eureka, Mr. Ginsberg was co-founder and Executive Chairman of Apex Site Management, which grew from its inception in 1995 to become the largest third-party manager of wireless and wireline sites in the U.S. at the time of its sale to SpectraSite in January 2000. Mr. Ginsberg was also the co-founder of Horizon Cellular Group, which grew from a start-up in 1991 (in partnership with McCaw Cellular) to become one of the largest cellular system operators in the country prior to the sale of the business.

Mr. Ginsberg currently serves on the Board of Directors of Aptum Technologies, FreshWave Group and Beanfield Metroconnect.

Mr. Ginsberg received a Bachelor of Science, cum laude, in Finance and Accounting from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1986.

Leslie Wolff Golden

Managing Director

Leslie Wolff Golden is a Managing Director at Digital Colony and is primarily responsible for Investor Relations and Capital Formation for Digital Colony.

Prior to joining Digital Colony, Ms. Golden was a Managing Director in the Investor Solutions Group of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) where she was primarily responsible for raising capital from and managing relationships with institutional investors and consultants.  She worked closely with investment teams in North America, Europe, and Asia to ensure successful fundraising campaigns.

Prior to joining MIRA, Ms. Golden was a Managing Director at Ridgewood Energy where she was the Head of Investor Relations. Ms. Golden also was involved with principal investing and portfolio management.  Ms. Golden started her career in investment banking with Lehman Brothers and subsequently worked at Bankers Trust and Bank of America (NationsBanc Montgomery).

Ms. Golden is a founding member of the Wharton Women in Private Equity/Venture Capital and sits on the Advisory Board of Wharton Private Equity/Venture Capital. 

Ms. Golden received a Bachelor of Science in 1989 and MBA in 1996 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Geoffrey Goldschein

Managing Director, General Counsel

Geoffrey Goldschein is a Managing Director and the General Counsel at Digital Colony. Mr. Goldschein is responsible for the management of legal affairs and generally provides legal and other support to the operations of Digital Colony. He has 18 years of experience advising on fund formations, U.S. securities laws, portfolio company acquisitions and divestitures, and other material portfolio company matters.

Prior to Digital Colony, he spent ten years at Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), where he worked as legal counsel for many listed and unlisted infrastructure funds.

Prior to MIRA, Mr. Goldschein worked in the corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and leveraged buyout groups of several large international law firms, primarily representing private equity funds and their portfolio companies in a wide variety of domestic and international transactions.

Mr. Goldschein received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, cum laude, from Tufts University in 1998. He earned a Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2002, where he was a senior editor of the Georgetown Journal of International Law and served as an intern in the Satellite Division of the Federal Communications Commission.

Sadiq Malik

Managing Director

Sadiq Malik is a Managing Director at Digital Colony. Mr. Malik is a seasoned investment professional with in-depth investing experience in private, distressed and public equities across a variety of industries.

Prior to joining Digital Colony, Mr. Malik was a co-founding partner of Oskie Capital, a public and private equity firm, which invested in companies undergoing positive business transformations and corporate change. During his time there, Mr. Malik led Oskie’s investments in the digital infrastructure space including data centers and satellite operators and was also involved in Oskie’s cable investments.

Before Oskie Capital, Mr. Malik worked on President Obama’s Auto Task Force at the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the financial crisis in 2009.

Prior to working for the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Mr. Malik was an investment professional at Och-Ziff Capital, The Blackstone Group and Morgan Stanley.

Mr. Malik currently serves on the Board of Directors of Aptum Technologies and Beanfield Metroconnect.

Mr. Malik received a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in Economics from Dartmouth College in 2000 and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School in 2007.

Warren Roll

Managing Director

Warren Roll is a Managing Director at Digital Colony. Mr. Roll has more than 23 years of experience in global private equity, mergers and acquisitions, asset management and operations across a broad range of industry sectors.  Mr. Roll helps lead the fiber and small cell strategy at Digital Colony and is responsible for the identification, evaluation, consummation, and management of new investments with a specific focus on fiber, indoor and outdoor small cell networks, tower infrastructure and related assets and business.

Prior to joining Digital Colony in 2014, Mr. Roll was a Senior Director at Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) where he led TMT and healthcare sector initiatives in the private equity group. Mr. Roll helped build the private equity direct investing program including being actively involved in the management of Telesat, one of the largest global satellite operators. Mr. Roll also played a leading role in PSP’s first, and one of the largest ever, public-to-private transactions. Prior to PSP Investments, Mr. Roll worked at BMO Financial Group and Desjardins Securities in mergers and acquisitions, as a member of the team advising companies in North America on transactions across various industries with a focus on telecommunications, media and technology.

Mr. Roll has a leading role in the Zayo Group investment and serves on the Board of Directors of Allstream, Digita and ExteNet Systems.

Mr. Roll received a Bachelor of Arts with honors in 1998 and an MBA with honors in 2001 from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.

Liam Stewart

Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer

Liam Stewart is a Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Digital Colony. Prior to Digital Colony, Mr. Stewart was the Chief Financial Officer of Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation. He has approximately 15 years of experience in acquiring, operating and financing infrastructure assets in the U.S., Australia, and Asia. 

Prior to joining Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets in 2014, Mr. Stewart was a Senior Vice President and Management Partner at Global Tower Partners (GTP), where he had responsibility for all capital markets initiatives and led over a dozen domestic and international financings for GTP. He was also responsible for all treasury, capital markets and strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, investor relations and reporting initiatives at GTP. Prior to joining GTP in 2009, Mr. Stewart was employed by the Macquarie Group where he had day to day responsibility for a listed Macquarie affiliate’s North American media and telecommunications investments. 

Mr. Stewart has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales. He is also admitted to practice as a solicitor in the state of New South Wales.

Hayden Boucher

Principal

Hayden Boucher is a Principal at Digital Colony. Mr. Boucher has 12 years of direct investment, investment banking and capital markets experience. He has spent most of his career focusing on the Technology, Media, and Telecom space.

Mr. Boucher joined Digital Colony in 2014 as one of the early members of the investment team post the company’s founding in 2013. Since that time, he has focused primarily on fiber, small cell, and tower opportunities both domestically and internationally.

Prior to Digital Colony, Mr. Boucher spent six years at Citi in the TMT groups of both the investment bank and capital markets origination. During his tenure, he worked on a variety of transactions, including M&A and debt/equity financings with a primary focus on the telecom sector.

Mr. Boucher received a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in Biology and Economics from Williams College in 2008.

James Burke

Principal

James Burke is a Principal at Digital Colony. Mr. Burke is based in London and focuses on European investments and opportunities. He is an accomplished infrastructure investor with over 12 years of sector experience.

Prior to joining Digital Colony, Mr. Burke was a Director at Alinda Capital Partners, one of the largest infrastructure investment firms operating in North America and Europe with a focus on telecom, energy, transportation, and contracted infrastructure assets. Prior to Alinda, Mr. Burke began his career in London as an M&A Analyst in the Global Infrastructure Group at Citigroup.

Mr. Burke currently serves on the Board of Directors of Vantage Europe, Digita and Cyclone.

Mr. Burke received a Bachelor’s degree in 2007 and a Master of Arts Degree in 2010 in Chinese Studies from Cambridge University.

Wilson Chung

Principal

Wilson Chung is a Principal at Digital Colony. Mr. Chung is based in Singapore and focuses on identifying and evaluating Asia Pacific investment opportunities. He has over 13 years of infrastructure, private equity, and corporate finance experience in Asia.

Prior to joining Digital Colony, Mr. Chung was most recently a Senior Vice President in the infrastructure principal investments team at Macquarie Capital.  He led Macquarie’s balance sheet investments in digital infrastructure in Asia, with a focus on building platforms and developing greenfield datacenters and other digital infrastructure assets. Prior to that role, Mr. Chung worked in Macquarie Capital’s private capital markets team where he focused on principal investments and advisory mandates across the consumer and technology sectors in Asia.

Prior to Macquarie Capital, Mr. Chung was a co-founder and CFO of Litegrid Holdings Ltd, a Hong Kong telecommunications infrastructure developer and prior to that, he covered consumer, industrial and telecom investments for Unitas Capital, an Asian regional private equity fund. Mr. Chung started his career as an investment banking analyst at Citigroup.

Mr. Chung received a Bachelor of Laws, with honors, and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne in 2007.

Geneviève Maltais-Boisvert

Principal

Geneviève Maltais-Boisvert is a Principal at Digital Colony.  Ms. Maltais-Boisvert has 15 years of experience in global infrastructure funds management and investment banking across the Americas, Europe, Turkey, and Australia. She has in-depth industry knowledge and expertise in the telecom infrastructure and renewable energy sectors.

Prior to joining Digital Colony, Ms. Maltais-Boisvert served as Director of Infrastructure Investments at the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments).

Earlier in her career, Ms. Maltais-Boisvert served as Lead Climate Change and Sustainability Advisor at QGC in Australia, she also worked in London at Greencoat Capital, a private equity fund focused on renewable energy.  Ms. Maltais-Boisvert started her career in investment banking and M&A at Scotiabank in Montréal.

Ms. Maltais-Boisvert currently serves on the Board of Directors of Highline do Brasil and Scala Data Centers.

Ms. Maltais-Boisvert received a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University in 2005 and an MBA from INSEAD in 2009.

Scott McBride

Principal

Scott McBride is a Principal at Digital Colony. Mr. McBride has spent most of his career in the telecommunications infrastructure space. Mr. McBride joined Digital Colony in 2015 and has been deeply involved in the identification, evaluation, capitalization, consummation, and management of new investments of Digital Colony with a specific focus on data centers and towers.

Prior to Digital Colony, Mr. McBride spent five years at Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets. At Macquarie, Mr. McBride was actively involved in the asset management and eventual sale of Global Tower Partners.

Mr. McBride received a Bachelor of Business Administration, cum laude, in Finance and Economics from the University of Notre Dame in 2009.  He is also a CFA charterholder.

Manjari Govada

Vice President

Manjari Govada, CFA, is a Vice President at Digital Colony. Ms. Govada is based in London and focuses on evaluating and managing European digital infrastructure investments and opportunities. In 2018, Ms. Govada relocated from Digital Colony’s New York office to help open the London office.

Prior to Digital Colony, Ms. Govada was at BlackRock, in the Alternative Solutions Group focused on direct special situation investments across various alternative asset classes, geographies and sectors.

Ms. Govada currently serves on the Board of Directors of Vantage Europe. Ms. Govada received a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Minnesota, Morris and a Master of Finance from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Clay Gregory

Vice President

Clay Gregory is a Vice President at Digital Colony. Mr. Gregory is based in Boca Raton, Florida and is responsible for  evaluating, executing, and managing new and existing investments across each of the digital infrastructure subsectors globally . 

Prior to joining Digital Colony, Mr. Gregory was an investment professional at Mistral Equity Partners, a middle-market private equity firm in New York. His experience included evaluating and conducting due diligence on new investment opportunities and implementing value creation initiatives within portfolio investments. Previously, he was an investment banking analyst at Jefferies in New York. 

Mr. Gregory currently serves on the Board of Directors of Cyclone. Mr. Gregory received a Bachelor of Arts from Rhodes College and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in Finance and Management.

Morgan Jones

Vice President

Morgan Jones is a Vice President at Digital Colony. Mr. Jones is based in Boca Raton, FL and is responsible for evaluating, executing, and managing new and existing investments across each of the digital infrastructure subsectors globally.

Prior to Digital Colony, Mr. Jones was in the Corporate Development and Strategy group at NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE) where he evaluated and executed on several multi-billion dollar corporate merger and acquisition initiatives across multiple industry verticals including utilities, gas infrastructure, renewables, and retail electricity.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Jones spent time in the Mergers and Acquisitions group at Global Tower Partners (GTP) where he analyzed hundreds of tower portfolio acquisition opportunities. Prior to GTP, he worked at Deloitte in their Audit and Assurance practice.

Mr. Jones holds Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Master of Accounting degrees from the University of Florida and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Florida with concentrations in Finance and Competitive Strategy.

Dan Armstrong

Senior Advisor - CEO of Beanfield Technologies

Dan Armstrong is a Senior Advisor to Digital Colony and Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technical Officer of Beanfield Technologies (“Beanfield”).

Mr. Armstrong founded Beanfield  in 1988 and has overseen the transformation of Beanfield from a small IT services firm into the largest independent provider of bandwidth infrastructure in Canada. Dan continues to manage all facets of the company’s network engineering, design and construction.

Susan Bowen

Senior Advisor - CEO of Aptum Technologies

Susan Bowen is a Senior Advisor to Digital Colony and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Aptum.  Ms. Bowen has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry and understands the importance of transformational leadership to stay at the forefront of customer needs and expectations. Ms. Bowen has a reputation as a trusted advisor and leading voice in the technology industry.

Prior to Aptum, Ms. Bowen was Vice President and General Manager of Cogeco Peer 1, EMEA, where she spearheaded strategic direction. Prior to her role at Cogeco Peer 1, Ms. Bowen was Chief of Staff UK & Ireland at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) following her tenure of over 16 years at HP UK Ltd.

Ms. Bowen holds a post-graduate certificate in Education from the University of Greenwich, a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University, and a Bachelor of Science, Business Information Systems from the University of Portsmouth.

Murray H. Case

Operating Partner

Murray H. Case has worked with Digital Colony as an Operating Partner focused on Latin American digital infrastructure since 2017. Mr. Case was raised in Brazil and is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Mexico.

In addition to his responsibilities with Digital Colony, he is currently the lead director of a Brazilian metro fiber operator and a Colombian financial software firm. He is also a director of a Mexican broadband provider. Prior, he was Chief Executive of Grupo redIT, an operator of communications networks, data centers and managed information services in Mexico and the Western U.S., until it was sold to Kio Networks in 2014. Under his leadership, Grupo redIT opened multiple new metro fiber markets, built one of the largest data center complexes in Mexico and was a leading provider of mission-critical IT services. 

Prior to co-founding Grupo redIT in the late 1990’s, Mr. Case directed the banking representative office of Salomon Brothers in Mexico City, which he established in 1994. Mr. Case worked in the specialty chemical and cellular communications industries early in his career. 

Mr. Case received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1978 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1983.

Sureel Choksi

Senior Advisor CEO of Vantage Data Centers

Sureel Choksi is a Senior Advisor to Digital Colony and President and CEO of Vantage Data Centers and serves on its Board of Directors. Mr. Choksi has over 20 years of experience as an executive in the Internet infrastructure industry.

Prior to Vantage Data Centers, Mr. Choksi was an Operating Executive at Silver Lake Partners and, prior to that, CEO of Elevation Data Centers, a private equity backed roll-up vehicle. Mr. Choksi previously held several executive roles with Level 3 Communications, including Chief Marketing Officer, President of Wholesale Markets, Executive Vice President of Services, Chief Financial Officer, Group Vice President of Corporate Development and Treasurer. Prior to Level 3, Mr. Choksi worked in venture capital at TeleSoft Partners and investment banking at Gleacher & Company.

Mr. Choksi received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School, with concentrations in Finance, Accounting and Entrepreneurial Management, and a Bachelor of Applied Science from the School of Engineering and Applied Science both from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995.

Richard Coyle

Senior Advisor - COO of ExteNet Systems

Mr. Coyle is a Senior Advisor and Chief Operating Officer of ExteNet Systems. As the COO, Rich is focused on designing and implementing business operations to support the strategic direction of a customer-centered organization.

Prior to ExteNet, Mr. Coyle served as an Operating Partner at Digital Bridge Holdings LLC. Previously, Mr. Coyle has also held leadership roles at fiber infrastructure companies, including Wilcon and Zayo Group. Over the twenty years in the industry, including telecom and utility companies, Mr. Coyle has focused on growing and improving operational, financial and market position of the companies. Mr. Coyle has an accomplished record of developing strategic and tactical initiatives to maximize long-term growth and enterprise value through a combination of streamlined operations, cost reductions, efficient capital investment, and financial structuring.

Mr. Coyle received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the City University of New York – Queens College.

Michael Foust

Senior Advisor - Chairman of Vantage and DataBank

Michael Foust is a Senior Advisor to Digital Colony and is the Chairman of Vantage and DataBank. Mr. Foust has over 35 years of experience in institutional real estate investments, including development and portfolio management.

Prior to Digital Colony, Mr. Foust was the Chief Executive Officer and a Director at Digital Realty Trust Inc. (NYSE: DLR) from its IPO in October 2004 to March 2014. Mr. Foust was also a founder of private equity investor GI Partners in Menlo Park, CA, where he served as a Managing Director from February 2001 until DLR’s IPO in 2004. He was responsible for real asset investments at GI Partners, with an emphasis on technology related properties including data centers and telecom facilities.

Prior to the formation of GI Partners, Michael worked at CB Richard Ellis Investors Inc., UBS Asset Management, Karsten Realty Advisors and Trammell Crow Company. Prior to his real estate career, Michael participated in the origination of two related, international telecommunications companies, Consortium Communications International and Progressive Systems Inc.

He received a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in 1978 from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1983.

Alexander Gellman

Senior Advisor - Co-Founder and CEO of Vertical Bridge

Alex Gellman is a Senior Advisor to Digital Colony and the CEO of Vertical Bridge, the largest private owner and operator of wireless communications infrastructure in the U.S. Mr. Gellman is also one of the Co-founders of Digital Bridge.

Prior to co-founding Vertical Bridge, Mr. Gellman was President and COO of Global Tower Partners, the largest privately held tower company in the U.S. Mr. Gellman was instrumental in the sale of Global Tower Partners to American Tower Corporation in 2013 for over $4.8 billion. Previously, Mr. Gellman has been involved in many successful ventures, including Sonitrol Corporation, a leading provider of verified electronic security in North America where he served as President and COO until its sale to Stanley Works.

Mr. Gellman also co-founded Apex Site Management, the largest third-party manager of wireless and wireline communications sites in the U.S. Apex merged with SpectraSite Communications to create the largest telecommunications site portfolio in the U.S. Following the merger, Mr. Gellman served as President and CEO of SpectraSite-Transco Communications, Ltd., a joint venture between SpectraSite and British Gas to develop tower sites in the U.K.

Mr. Gellman previously served as Vice President - Development and a co-founder of Horizon Cellular Group, a start-up backed by McCaw Cellular to acquire, develop and operate rural cellular franchises in the eastern U.S.

In addition to his role as a Senior Advisor to Digital Colony, Mr. Gellman serves on the Board of Directors of FreshWave and Highline.

Mr. Gellman received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Tufts University in 1983 and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1988.

Jim Hyde

Senior Advisor - CEO of ExteNet Systems

Mr. Hyde is a Senior Advisor and President and CEO of ExteNet Systems. Mr. Hyde is responsible for developing and driving the end-to-end strategy and operating performance at ExteNet while maximizing value for its customers, employees and investors. Mr. Hyde is a visionary and thought-leader in the communications and digital infrastructure industry and brings extensive leadership experience from across the entire telecommunications ecosystem to ExteNet.

Prior to ExteNet, Jim was an executive officer at Sprint where he served as the President of several business units including the $6-billion Prepaid Group, Wholesale, Affiliates, and Strategic Partnerships. Earlier in his career, Mr. Hyde was the President & CEO of nTelos Holdings and Lumos Networks, and served as CEO & Managing Director of T-Mobile, UK.

Mr. Hyde received a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and was a member of the 1988 U.S. Olympic weightlifting team.  

Raul Martynek

Senior Advisor - CEO of DataBank

Raul Martynek is a Senior Advisor to Digital Colony and the Chief Executive Officer of DataBank. Mr. Martynek has over 20 years of experience in the telecom services and Digital Infrastructure sector.

Prior to joining DataBank, he served as an Operating Partner for Digital Bridge, assisting the firm in evaluating digital infrastructure investments, including the acquisition of DataBank and Vantage.

Previously Mr. Martynek was the CEO for Net Access, LLC, a New Jersey-based data center and managed services operator, which was acquired in November 2015 by Denver-based data center operator Cologix. Prior to Net Access, he was the CEO of Voxel dot Net, Inc., a global managed hosting, and cloud company, which was acquired by Internap Network Services Corp. in early 2012.

Mr. Martynek also served as the Chief Restructuring Officer of Smart Telecom, a Dublin, Ireland-based fiber carrier which was acquired by Digiweb in 2009, in connection with his role as a Senior Advisor to Plainfield Asset Management, a multi-billion-dollar hedge fund.

Prior to Plainfield, Mr. Martynek spent 13 years with telecom and Internet provider InfoHighway Communications Corp, first as a COO of Eureka Broadband and then as President and CEO of InfoHighway. InfoHighway was acquired by Broadview Networks in 2007.

Mr. Martynek earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Binghamton University in 1988 and received a Masters’ degree in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in 1992.

Graham Payne

Senior Advisor - Executive Chairman, Freshwave

Graham Payne is a Senior Advisor to Digital Colony and serves as the Executive Chairman of The FreshWave Group (“FreshWave”).

In 2014, Mr. Payne co-founded Opencell, the UK’s first carrier-approved indoor mobile signal service provider and the first to be able to deliver in-building coverage from all four mobile network operators using small cells. In November 2018, Digital Colony acquired Opencell and merged it with Stratto, a specialist in-building DAS provider. Mr. Payne led the merged business, strattoOpencell, as Chief Executive Officer. He guided the acquisitions of tower company Spyder Facilities Ltd, as well as leading small cell outdoor and radio service provider iWireless Solutions, before transitioning to the role of FreshWave’s Executive Chairman in the beginning of 2020.

Mr. Payne has long been at the heart of the mobile industry, having been involved in the inception of GSM in the 1990’s. He worked as the Planning and Deployment Director for T-Mobile in the UK and Rollout Manager for the T-Mobile International.

In 2007, Mr. Payne took a leading role in negotiating the largest network consolidation agreement in the world at that time. Following this successful negotiation, he was asked to establish and become Managing Director of MBNL, the joint venture between EE and Three. The consolidation was successfully consummated in October 2010 and continues to deliver significant benefits to its shareholders today. After leaving MBNL in 2014, Mr. Payne provided executive consultancy on network sharing and radio network projects, including executive level support to Vodafone on the Beacon project with Telefonica and CTIL, which helped transform delivery and enable large scale 4G rollout for both.

Mr. Payne serves on the Board of Directors of FreshWave and is a valued adviser to numerous global mobile connectivity groups.

Marcos Peigo

Senior Advisor - CEO of Scala Data Centers

Marcos Peigo is a Senior Advisor to Digital Colony, and the CEO and a Board member of Scala Data Centers, a Latin American data center platform. Mr. Peigo has over 20 years of experience as a technology and communications infrastructure executive based in Brazil.

Mr. Peigo has significant executive management experience in Latin America, including, most recently, as Vice President of Value Creation at IBM Latin America, where he was responsible for Industry Solutions and Business Development, Architecture and Innovation teams across the region; CEO of Solvo S/A, an IT infrastructure services company focused on complex solutions; Chief Operating Officer of UOLDIVEO, including the management of their data center and managed services business based in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and a partner and Board member of Automatos International Ltd, a company providing automation and management for IT assets. Previously, Mr. Peigo was also the founder of Lemniscata Ventures, a Brazilian privately held advisory and investment firm focused on companies that have intensive use of technology as its core.

Mr. Peigo studied Electrical Engineering and Economics at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and is Certified in ISO20000, ITIL (v1-2-3) and COBIT.

Dave Pistacchio

Operating Partner

Dave Pistacchio is an Operating Partner at Digital Colony, working with the investment team to evaluate, manage and operate new digital infrastructure investments, with a specific focus on fiber assets. With over 35 years in leadership positions in the telecommunication and media industries focusing on technology and operations, Mr. Pistacchio has built a reputation as a experienced executive who can lead organizations to operational excellence.

Prior to joining Digital Colony, Mr. Pistacchio served as President at Cablevision Lightpath Inc., a New York based $375 million telecom company, where he led the company through twelve years of significant growth; growing revenue, earnings, and free cash flow, while achieving industry recognition for innovation and operational excellence.

Prior to that, at Cablevision Systems Corporation, a $17 billion publicly traded media company, Mr. Pistacchio built and ran a large multi-faceted Information Technology organization that supported rapid growth in its Cable Television, Telecom, Media, Sports, Arena, Retail and Theater businesses. While there, he was responsible for delivering many industry “firsts” by effectively applying technology to business challenges.

In addition to his advisory role with Digital Colony, Mr. Pistacchio serves on the Board of Directors of Zayo Group Holdings, Aptum Technologies, Beanfield Metroconnect (where he serves as Executive Chairman) and Storyleaders LLC.

Brokaw Price

Operating Partner

Brokaw Price is an Operating Partner at Digital Colony, primarily focused on evaluating new greenfield hyperscale developments and generating strategic leasing relationships with global hyperscale customers across Digital Colony’s entire portfolio. Mr. Price has over 20 years of professional experience in developing and managing all aspects of global infrastructure strategy for market leading internet properties and content providers. He is an industry leader with success in cultivating, guiding, and closing complex network co-location, peering and network cost reduction focused negotiations.

Prior to joining Digital Colony, Mr. Price served as Vice President at EdgeConneX. He leveraged his expertise in the hyperscaler and edge data center industry to help grow the EdgeConneX core business through identifying, developing, and executing on strategies and initiatives to support the ongoing expansion of the cloud. 

Prior to EdgeConneX, Mr. Price was a Principal at Amazon, where he managed the New or Core Region International Business Development team and focused on identifying immediate and long-term strategic business expansion opportunities and initiatives for key cloud computing markets/regions for AWS. He managed and closed multiple complex co-location, metropolitan and transit network agreements in foreign and domestic markets as lead development negotiator, responsible for closing $1.6 billion contract value and approaching $3 billion total contract value under his management. Prior to Amazon, Mr. Price was responsible for contract execution and site selection for Yahoo!’s Global exchange points and Network co-location facilities. In addition, Mr. Price has held various roles in the telecommunications sector throughout his career.

Mr. Brokaw received a Bachelor of Arts in Communications Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1986.

Giles Proctor

Senior Advisor - President of AgileDC

Giles Proctor is an Operating Partner at Digital Colony, primarily focused on evaluating acquisitions and greenfield developments of data center businesses and assets globally, with a particular focus on the Asia Pacific region. Mr. Proctor, an accomplished international executive with a track record of building and leading highly successful teams across borders and cultures, has spent over two decades developing and operating high-quality data center assets and businesses.

Before joining Digital Colony, Mr. Proctor led global colocation procurement and data center expansion planning for Amazon Web Services, supporting the growth of Amazon’s cloud computing business around the world and responsible for multi-billion dollar leases. Mr. Proctor had previously led the development of innovative and leading data center assets for subsea cable operator Pacnet in Hong Kong, where he also secured blue-chip tenant leases that ensured a successful sale of the overall business to Telstra. Prior to joining Pacnet, Mr. Proctor spent over ten years in data center design, construction, and operations at Equinix. As head of data center development across Asia Pacific for Equinix, he was responsible for creating some of the most highly connected and sought-after data center locations in the region.

Mr. Proctor holds a Bachelor of Laws with first class honors, and an MBA from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

Steve Smith

Senior Advisor - CEO of Zayo Group

Steve M. Smith is Chief Executive Officer at Zayo, the leading independent provider of communications infrastructure. Steve has over 30 years of expertise as a global leader in the technology sector and a deep background in managing and scaling market-leading technology businesses.

Most recently, Steve was a Managing Director at GI Partners, a leading private investment firm. From 2007 - 2018, he served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Equinix, the largest data center company globally. Under his leadership, Equinix grew from $2 billion to $34 billion in market value, while revenue increased from $400 million to $4.4 billion. Equinix also successfully integrated 21 acquisitions over 10 years representing over $25 billion in organic and inorganic investments during his tenure. Prior to Equinix, Steve served as Senior Vice President of HP Services, where he oversaw the management of the organization’s Consulting and Integration, Managed Services, and Technology Deployment and Support business groups. Previously, Steve served as Senior Vice President of Global Professional and Managed Services at Lucent Technologies. He has also held various leadership positions during his 16 years with Electronic Data Systems Corporation, including Chief Sales Officer, President of EDS Asia-Pacific, and President of EDS Western Region.

Steve currently serves on the Board of Directors of Zayo, Flexential, a GI Partners portfolio company, and NextDC, a publicly traded data center company in Australia.

Steve had a successful eight-year career in the U.S. Army where, among other roles, he was aide-de-camp to the office of the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces in the Pacific. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and holds a B.S. in Engineering.

Daniel Seiner

Senior Advisor - CEO of Andean Telecom Partners

Daniel E. Seiner is a Senior Advisor at Digital Colony and the Chief Executive Officer of Andean Telecom Partners (“ATP”), and previously held the same role at Torres Unidas, which was acquired by ATP in December 2017. Mr. Seiner has extensive experience in the telecommunications and media sectors. He is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Hebrew.

Prior to Torres Unidas, Mr. Seiner served as Chief Executive Officer of Torrecom Partners LLC and served as Managing Director at Ladenburg Thalmann & Company. He also served as Managing Director at BroadSpan Capital.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Seiner led the Latin American Telecommunications investment banking practice group at J.P. Morgan Chase, where he was responsible for origination and execution of advisory and capital raising. While at J.P. Morgan, Mr. Seiner executed over 20 advisory transactions in excess value of US$25 billion and over US$3 billion in capital raising.

He received his MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

Jose Sola

Senior Advisor - CEO of Mexico Tower Partners

Jose Sola is a Senior Advisor to Digital Colony and the Chief Executive Officer of Mexico Tower Partners.

Prior to Mexico Tower Partners, Mr. Sola was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development – Latin American for Global Tower Partners (GTP) and successfully led GTP’s expansion into Mexico and Costa Rica, where he was involved in growing and consolidating the operations in those markets.

Mr. Sola began his career in telecommunications in 1994 when he joined Telefonica, the leading provider of telecommunication services in Europe and Latin America. While at Telefonica, Mr. Sola held various management and executive positions in M&A and Corporate Development in Madrid and Miami and he was involved in the international expansion of Telefonica across Latin America. Prior to joining Telefonica, he worked in the international division of ENDESA, one of the largest Spanish utility companies, performing financial due diligence of acquisitions in Portugal.

Mr. Sola holds a Bachelor of Business Science degree in Economics and Finance from the Universidad de

Granada – Spain in 1991. 

Fernando Viotti

Senior Advisor - CEO of Highline

Fernando Viotti is a Senior Advisor to Digital Colony and President at Highline do Brasil (“Highline”).

Prior to joining Highline, Mr. Viotti was a Director at Patria Investments. Before joining Patria, he worked at Greentech Capital, a private equity firm in Brazil dedicated to investing in renewable energy, environmental services, sustainable agribusiness and forestry. At Greentech, Mr. Viotti was involved with the execution, development and monitoring of investments in several industries. Mr. Viotti also worked as a consultant at McKinsey and Promon.

Mr. Viotti graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering from Escola Poltécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and holds a specialization in Capital Markets from Faculdade de Economia e Administração (FEA-USP). Mr. Viotti is fluent in both Portuguese and English.

Dean Criares

Managing Partner Digital Colony Credit

Dean T. Criares is a Managing Director, Head of Digital Colony Credit. Mr. Criares has over 30 years of experience investing in credit products with specialties in leveraged finance, structured products and capital markets.

Prior to Digital Colony, Mr. Criares was a co-managing partner of Sound Harbor Partners, a private investment manager focused on non-investment grade corporate credit.  In 2017, Sound Harbor was acquired by Allianz Global Investors where, until joining Digital Colony, Mr. Criares continued to advise the funds previously managed by Sound Harbor Partners.

Prior to Sound Harbor, Mr. Criares was a Senior Managing Director and partner of The Blackstone Group where he was the founding member of the firm’s senior debt platform.  Mr. Criares joined Blackstone in 2002 and built the firm’s senior debt business to scale with offices in New York and London.

Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Criares spent 17 years at CIBC World Markets with focus on sourcing, underwriting and monitoring non-investment grade credit investments.  From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Criares served as original member of Trimaran Advisors, a CIBC affiliated asset manager, where he was responsible for growing and managing the unit’s $3.0 billion senior debt portfolio.

Mr. Criares received a Bachelor of Arts from Drew University in 1985 and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1994.

Mike Zupon

Senior Advisor, Digital Colony Credit

Michael J. Zupon is a Senior Advisor to Digital Colony Credit. Mr. Zupon has over 30 years of investment experience managing leveraged loan, high yield bond, distressed debt, mezzanine debt and private equity investments.

Prior to Digital Colony, Mr. Zupon was a Managing Director and the Chief Investment Officer of the Allianz Global Investors (“AllianzGI”) US Private Credit Solutions team. Mr. Zupon joined AllianzGI in January 2017 following the acquisition by AllianzGI of Sound Harbor Partners’ investment funds. Mr. Zupon founded Sounded Harbor Partners’  in 2009 to provide private credit to US companies.

Prior to founding Sound Harbor in 2009, Mr. Zupon was a Managing Director at The Carlyle Group from 1999‐2009 and was a Partner and member of the Management Committee. Mr. Zupon founded Carlyle's Leveraged Finance business and led its growth to over $13 billion of assets under management. As head of U.S. Leveraged Finance, Mr. Zupon served as Chief Investment Officer, Loan Portfolio Manager and Special Situations Portfolio Manager. In his role as Special Situations Portfolio Manager, Mr. Zupon developed and led Carlyle's entry into mezzanine debt and credit solutions distressed investing. Mr. Zupon was a member of the Investment Committees to Carlyle Strategic Partners, a credit solutions distressed fund and Carlyle Mezzanine Partners and served on the board of Carlyle Europe Leveraged Finance.

Prior to Carlyle, Mr. Zupon was a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch and Banc of America Securities (f.k.a. NationsBanc Markets, Inc.), where he managed a department responsible for its leveraged loan underwriting business. Earlier, Mr. Zupon worked at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce's Acquisition Finance Group (CIBC).

Mr. Zupon earned a B.S. in Business from Miami University of Ohio.

William Lutkins

Managing Director, Digital Colony Credit

William S. Lutkins is a Managing Director at Digital Colony Credit responsible for credit trading.  Mr. Lutkins has 27 years of experience in credit analysis, loan trading and portfolio management.

Prior to joining Digital Colony, Mr. Lutkins was a Senior Portfolio Manager and loan trader for Allianz Global Investors focusing on both broadly syndicated and middle-market loan portfolios.

Prior to joining Allianz Global Investors, Mr. Lutkins was a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Sound Harbor Partners where he was responsible for the management of the CLO portfolios.  Prior to joining Sound Harbor Partners, Mr. Lutkins was a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager for CLO and loan SMA strategies at Aladdin Capital Management working out of both the Stamford, CT and London offices.  Prior to joining Aladdin Capital Management, Mr. Lutkins held credit investment positions at Octagon Credit Investors, Credit Suisse and Swiss Bank Corp.

Mr. Lutkins received a Bachelor of Arts from St. Lawrence University in 1987 and an MBA from the Owen School of Management, Vanderbilt University in 1993.

Chris Moon

Managing Director, Digital Colony Credit

Chris Moon is a Managing Director at Digital Colony Credit and is responsible for origination in the Americas region. Mr. Moon has over 15 years of experience in credit investing and deal sourcing in the Telecom and Technology sector with particular focus on Digital Infrastructure.

Prior to joining Digital Colony, Mr. Moon was a Managing Director and founding member of the TMT Specialty Lending Group at ING Bank and had responsibility for origination, structuring and underwriting leveraged transactions in North America and LatAm. Prior to ING, Chris was an Analyst at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Management Division and a CPA at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in the Technology practice.

Mr. Moon received an MBA and MS in Tax in 2003 and a dual Bachelor of Science in Finance and Computer Information Systems in 2000 from Northeastern University. He is a CFA Charterholder and a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).

Joshua Parrish

Managing Director, Digital Colony Credit

Joshua Parrish is a Managing Director at Digital Colony Credit. He has 20 years of experience in credit investing and leveraged finance.

Prior to joining Digital Colony, Mr. Parrish was a Managing Director at Ascribe Capital with responsibility for originating, structuring, managing and exiting distressed and opportunistic investments across a variety of sectors.

Prior to Ascribe, Mr. Parrish was a Managing Director and founding team member of Sound Harbor Partners where he was responsible for originating, structuring, managing and exiting capital solutions investments and was a Portfolio Manager focused on risk management for Sound Harbor’s performing credit funds.

At both Ascribe Capital and Sound Harbor Partners, Mr. Parrish was an active board member for several portfolio companies. Prior to joining Sound Harbor, Mr. Parrish also held positions within high yield capital markets and credit advisory at Credit Suisse and J.P. Morgan.

Mr. Parrish received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Virginia in 2000.

Christophe Strauven

Managing Director, Digital Colony Credit

Christophe Strauven is a Managing Director at Digital Colony Credit and is responsible for originating, structuring, managing and monetizing credit investments in Europe.

Prior to Digital Colony, Mr. Strauven was a Managing Director at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey’s TMT Leveraged Finance team in Atlanta, GA. During his 13-year tenure at STRH, he acted as Left Lead Arranger for multiple transactions in the data center, fiber and small cell sectors. Previously, Mr. Strauven was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs in London, structuring and executing convertible bond transactions. He began his career as a management consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in Brussels and Paris.

Mr. Strauven received a Bachelor of Business Engineering from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1996 and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University in 2001.

H.K. Hallett

Vice President, Digital Colony Credit

H.K. Hallett is a Vice President at Digital Colony Credit.  Mr. Hallett is based in New York, New York and is responsible for evaluating, executing and managing new and existing investments within the credit platform with a focus on digital infrastructure.

Prior to Digital Colony, Mr. Hallett was a Senior Associate for Saratoga Investment Corp., a publicly-traded business development company and provider of customized debt financing and equity capital to middle market companies.  At Saratoga, Mr. Hallett was involved in credit analysis, underwriting, portfolio monitoring and valuation for a portfolio spanning a diverse range of industries.

Prior to joining Saratoga, Mr. Hallett was a senior investment banking analyst with Piper Sandler (fka Piper Jaffray & Co.), where he worked on a number of middle market acquisitions in the industrials and business services sectors.

Mr. Hallett holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as well as a minor in Spanish for the Professions.

Bill Hughes

Portfolio Manager, Digital Colony Liquid Opportunities Fund (DCL)

Bill Hughes is the Lead Portfolio Manager for the Digital Colony Liquid Opportunities Fund and is responsible for liquid strategies at Digital Colony.  He joined the firm from Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors where he managed funds focused on special situation investments in TMT, real estate and financial services.

Mr. Hughes has been engaged in public securities investing as an analyst and portfolio manager since 1998, and he previously managed similar strategies at Allen & Company, Pequot Capital Management and Société Générale. He began his career as an investment banking analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Mr. Hughes is an honors graduate of the University of Chicago with a concentration in economics. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts. He is also the co-author of “Quality in the Selection of REITs”, a whitepaper on the key fundamental factors underpinning successful REIT investments.  Mr. Hughes is a trustee of Seven Arrows Elementary School. 

Alan Bezoza

Portfolio Manager, Digital Colony Alpha Fund (DCAF)

Alan Bezoza is Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Digital Colony focused on public equity securities within the Technology, Media and Telecom sectors. Mr. Bezoza has spent over 20 years researching and investing in the TMT sector with a particular focus on the global Communications and Media Ecosystem, which includes media, cable, telecoms, mobile towers, data centers, communications technology, data networking and their respective supply chains. 

Prior to joining Digital Colony in 2020, Mr. Bezoza was a Partner and Sector Head at Dorsal Capital, a market-neutral hedge fund, where he focused on the Media, Telecom and Communications Technology sectors.  Prior to Dorsal, he spent over seven years at Janus Capital, where he was a Senior Analyst and Co-Sector Lead of the Communications investment team that included the Telecom, Media and Internet sectors.  Mr. Bezoza previously worked in equity research as a Senior Vice President at both Oppenheimer and Friedman Billings Ramsey.  He has published numerous industry white papers, appearing in print and financial news outlets (CNBC, Bloomberg, WSJ, etc.),  and has keynoted industry conferences.  In 2005, he was recognized by The Wall Street Journal as a “Best on the Street” analyst for his stock picks in the Broadcasting and Entertainment sector.  Mr. Bezoza started his career at Lazard Asset Management, where he worked on the Emerging Markets and International Small Cap portfolios. He received a BS in Finance from Lehigh University.

Jon Pollowitz

Director of Marketing, Liquid Strategies

Jon Pollowitz leads business development for Digital Colony’s liquid strategies. His is primarily focused on raising capital from and managing relationships with institutional investors. Prior to joining Digital Colony in Q1 2020, he held similar roles at Atlantic Investment (a NY based hedge fund) and within Bank of America’s Capital Strategy group.

Prior to his marketing roles, Jon was an institutional allocator for a multi-billion dollar fund-of-hedge funds, where he was the Strategy Head for Long/Short Equity.

Mr. Pollowitz graduated from The University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts in English.

Mark Serwinowski

Managing Director, Chief Information Officer

Mark Serwinowski is a Managing Director and the Chief Information Officer of Digital Colony.

Prior to Digital Colony, Mr. Serwinowski was the Vice President, Information Technology, at Global Tower Partners. Global Tower Partners was acquired by American Tower Corporation in October 2013 for $4.8 billion.

Previously, he was the Chief Technology Officer at Blue Frog Solutions, the leading provider of software for secure data transfer, messaging and transaction processing between insurance carriers/underwriters and distributors/agents. Prior to Blue Frog Solutions, Mr. Serwinowski was the Chief Information Officer for Woolbright Development, Inc., one of the largest acquirers and owners of retail real estate in Florida. 

Mr. Serwinowski previously headed the Information Systems department at Extended Stay America and served in numerous senior positions at United Technology's Pratt & Whitney subsidiary, where he was recognized for outstanding contribution to the latest generation military fighter engine program.

Mr. Serwinowski received a Bachelor of Engineering from Vanderbilt University and earned a Master degree in Engineering Management from the University of South Florida.  He also completed post-graduate education at the University of Florida and executive education at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.

Matty Yohannan

Chief of Staff

Matty Yohannan is Chief of Staff at Digital Colony to Chief Executive Officer Marc Ganzi. Mr. Yohannan will support executing the ‘digital playbook’ and help to build, lead and grow Digital Colony. He will focus on the firm’s strategic projects and evaluate new non-private equity growth initiatives.

Mr. Yohannan brings over 20 years of sourcing, structuring, investing and fundraising experience to Digital Colony. Throughout his career, he has completed over 60 transactions, raising and investing over $3 billion of capital across different industries, geographies and asset classes.

Prior to Digital Colony, Mr. Yohannan was Founder and Managing Partner at Deacon Arch Partners, a family office and investment advisory firm. Prior to Deacon Arch, he was a Managing Director at ShareNett, a family office investment platform founded by Jim Pallotta (Raptor Group), where he led the origination and investment efforts and was a Member of the Investment Committee and Management Committee.

Mr. Yohannan spent over fifteen years in investment management with a focus on technology, media and telecommunications (“TMT”), including as TMT Sector Head on the founding investment team at Charter Bridge Capital, a sector-focused long/short equity fund, growing assets under management from $25 million to over $300 million in less than two years and as Portfolio Manager at both Balyasny Asset Management and Visium Asset Management. Prior to business school, he was a Senior Associate in the Private Equity Group at Robertson Stephens. He began his career in the Structured Products Group at Bankers Trust Securities..

Mr. Yohannan received a Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, in Finance and Economics from the Stern School of Business at NYU in 1996 and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with a Certificate in Public Management & Social Innovation in 2003. Mr. Yohannan is an alumnus of the SEO Career Program, a Toigo Foundation Fellow, a finalist for the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10k Small Businesses Program in Detroit and a Board Member of the BUILD Institute.

Eric Etter

Principal, EVP of Finance

Eric Etter is a Principal and EVP of Finance at Digital Colony.  Mr. Etter is responsible for accounting, business support, financial planning and analysis, treasury, internal audit, tax functions, as well as investor relations and management at Digital Colony.  He has over 30 years of experience building and leading finance teams in global companies and playing a crucial role in defining, implementing and managing their financing strategies.

Prior to joining Digital Colony, Mr. Etter served as Vice President of Finance for Global Tower Partners (GTP) where he led the finance and accounting operations and was closely involved in the sale of the company to The Blackstone Group in 2005 and to the Macquarie Group in 2007.

Prior to joining GTP, Mr. Etter served as Corporate Controller for Titan Towers LP where he was responsible for the company's financial and accounting administration.  Before joining Titan Towers, Mr. Etter spent six years at Pittencrieff Communications, Inc. where he served in a variety of management and financial roles.

Mr. Etter received a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in Accountancy from Angelo State University (a member of the Texas Tech University System) in 1989. 

Kristen Whealon

Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer

Ms. Whealon currently serves as Chief Compliance Officer for Digital Colony, a position she has held since November 2017.  She also serves as Senior Vice President, Deputy Chief Compliance Officer for Colony Capital, Inc. (“Colony”), a position she has held since April 2014. 

Ms. Whealon’s responsibilities include regulatory and compliance oversight for the registered investment adviser, maintaining written supervisory procedures, maintaining the firm’s books and records, handling regulatory examinations and investigations and reviewing and approving advertising and sales literature.  Ms. Whealon also served as Chief Compliance Officer of NorthStar Securities, LLC, a former broker dealer affiliate of Colony from December 2011 to October 2018.  Prior to joining Colony, Ms. Whealon was an Assistant Compliance Officer at Geneos Wealth Management, Inc. from August 2002 to November 2011 where she provided compliance support to more than 250 registered representatives.  Ms. Whealon began her career at American Express Financial Advisors, Inc. 

Ms. Whealon received a Bachelor of Arts from Colorado State University in 1995 and is Series 7, 24 and 63 licensed. 

Lisa Aliperta

Vice President, Finance

Lisa Aliperta is a Vice President of Finance at Digital Colony. Ms. Aliperta is a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Accountant with more than 25 years of experience. Ms. Aliperta is based in Boca Raton, Florida and currently oversees all aspects of accounting and financial reporting. 

Prior to joining Digital Colony, Ms. Aliperta was the Vice President of Finance, Managed Networks for American Tower (NYSE: AMT) which acquired Global Tower Partners (GTP) in October 2013. Prior to its acquisition, Ms. Aliperta was the Vice President of Finance for GTP and was responsible for the company’s finance and accounting functions.

Previously, Ms. Aliperta held a variety of management and financial roles at public companies including Dycom Industries; Time Warner Cable, which was later sold to Charter Communications; and Ernst & Young LLP’s Assurance and Business Advisory Services unit, where she managed audit engagements for companies in a wide range of industries.

Ms. Aliperta earned a Bachelor of Business Science degree in Finance and Accounting from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Brittenay Banh

Vice President, Investor Relations

Brittenay Banh is a Vice President at Digital Colony. Ms. Banh is based in Los Angeles and is responsible primarily for investor relations interfacing with the firm’s current and prospective investor base across the firm’s various product offerings.

Prior to her current role, Ms. Banh was an asset management professional primarily focused on the asset management and analysis of Colony Capital’s distressed real estate debt portfolios.

Ms. Banh received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California, Irvine.

Elizabeth Decker

Vice President, Information Technology

Elizabeth Decker is a Vice President of IT at Digital Colony. 

Prior to Digital Colony, Ms. Decker was the Director, IT Enabled Services Operations and Director, Corporate Systems at Cross Country Healthcare a national leader in healthcare staffing. In that capacity, she oversaw the company’s offshore business operations and achieved significant cost savings through process improvements. Ms. Decker also led the team that implemented and supported systems for sales, finance, accounting, and payroll including integrating acquired companies into those systems.

Previously, Ms. Decker headed several software development teams at Broward County, Board of County Commissioners. The applications and tools developed for the Purchasing Division, received multiple awards from FAPPO the leading professional association for public procurement.

Ms. Decker received a Bachelor of Computer Science from Utah State University and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) as well as a Certified Scrum Master (CSM).