Our Team

Jeff Ginsberg

Managing Director, Chief Operating 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.

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.

Dean Criares

Managing Director, Head of 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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

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

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

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).

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.

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.

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.