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A well-known thought-leader during the evolution of the hosting industry, Tim has held senior executive leadership roles with Savvis, Cable & Wireless America, Exodus and Digital Equipment Corporation. He excels at building thriving companies that deliver best-in-class hosting, colocation, managed, and professional services to clients from start-up to Fortune 500. At AIS, Tim is spearheading the company’s expansion, which leverages its strengths in delivering enterprise-class physical and virtual datacenter infrastructure.
As senior vice president of Global Operations at Savvis, a global leader in IT infrastructure services for enterprises, Tim led the efforts to rapidly expand the company’s international data center footprint, upgrade its network infrastructure, and expand its operational capabilities for managed services and utility computing.
Previously, as the managing director for Global Services at Savvis, Tim was responsible for the company’s top customers, as well as its Professional Services and Managed Security Services businesses. While at Cable & Wireless America, he led its Hosting business which represented over $450MM of revenue.
Tim is very active in the San Diego community, serving as a board member for the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation (EDC), part of the leadership trust for LEAD San Diego, and a board member for CommNexus San Diego, a non-profit technology industry association that works to accelerate the formation, growth, and success of the technology industry in the region. He is also a member of the San Diego Rotary Club 33.
Tim holds an MBA from the University of Oregon and a BA from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Kevin has been a successful leader at both public and private, information and technology companies, including those experiencing rapid growth phases. Much of his recent experience has been with information services and content-based businesses with recurring revenue models.
Prior to AIS, Kevin was the CFO of the 3E Company responsible for managing the Company’s finances and continuing its rapid financial growth along with implementing mergers, acquisitions, and other expansion opportunities.
Kevin has worked in several countries over the course of his twenty-five year career, including Europe, Africa, and Asia as a senior financial executive with ABC News Inc., a division of the Walt Disney Company.
Kevin holds a BA Degree in Finance from Villanova University.
Steve is a seasoned technologist with 20 years of hands-on experience in data security, network operations, and telecommunications. He has provided senior technical leadership for early-stage companies in the ISP, managed server, and data center services industries. Steve has also held both military and civilian positions in communications, network operation, and data security.
At AIS, Steve is responsible for managing and growing the engineering team and high-availability service infrastructure to support rapid regional expansion. He has been instrumental in the development of the virtual private data center / IaaS cloud services product lines at AIS. He is also responsible for leading the company’s network and managed services engineering efforts and owns the AIS strategic services roadmap.
Prior positions for Steve include serving as the chief technology officer for Complex Drive Data Centers and Cari.Net. He founded American Digital Network and was the principal architect and operations manager.
A professionally certified Data Center Design Electro-mechanical engineer, Ken has over 15 years experience designing, building, and maintaining Tier II-III data centers all over the country for companies such as LexisNexis and Fidelity Information Services. Meeting client expectations of ensuring continuous reliability, availability, and productivity is the forte of uptime and is a key focus for Ken.
During his five years at Fidelity, and previous six years at LexisNexis, his clients enjoyed an unprecedented level of continuous uptime without revenue generating load losses. There was not a single revenue-impacting outage.
Ken holds a BS in Engineering from Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of Dayton.
Frank has over 30 years of experience in IT, data center, and telecommunications operations. At AIS, he is responsible for the Service Delivery and Client Services organization, managing the client experience from order entry to service implementation and on-going 24x7x365 client support.
Frank took over responsibility for compliance and drove company efforts to complete the SSAE 16 SOC 1 Type 2, the SSAE 16 SOC 2 Type 2, and the SSAE 16 SOC 3 audits for our San Diego and Phoenix enterprise-class data centers. He also spearheaded the AIS Change Management and Incident Management procedures that were developed and implemented using the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) architecture.
Prior to AIS, Frank had responsibility for day-to-day operations, change management, network operations, and engineering of Intuit’s major data centers in San Diego, CA, Plano, TX, and Reno, NV. He also served as vice president for Data Center Operations and Telecommunications at the ABC Television Network.
Frank holds a BS in Business Management from Fairleigh Dickinson University and an MBA from Fordham University.
Cindy is that rare combination of senior sales executive who not only is skilled in driving superior sales team results but is also quite fluent in virtually every aspect of data center and cloud-based architecture and infrastructure.
Cindy has nearly 20 years of technology sales experience that includes channel and partner activities. Her background includes leading VAR-based sales activities for Medweb, a firm specializing in SaaS cloud telemedicine; partner development for Integralis, a global provider of IT Security and Information Risk Management solutions; and time at AT&T Solutions, Cable & Wireless, and MCI.
Cindy is certified in Aviation Security and is also the author of noted whitepapers on advances in cochlear implant technologies. She is one of only 16 panel members of the IT Governance Board on a global level, she sits on the executive boards of the La Jolla Community Center and San Diego / Jalalabad Sister Cites Foundation, and she serves as President of the La Jolla Town Council.
Leading with integrity, passion, creativity, and humor, Brian is responsible for all aspects of the company’s marketing and demand generation activities.
One of his more notable recent accomplishments was successfully transforming the brand, positioning, and industry perception of San Diego-based Continuous Computing from an earnest-yet-adolescent telecom platforms vendor into a fast-moving, high-growth global wireless infrastructure leader that ended up being acquired by Radisys (NASDAQ: RSYS), yielding substantial returns for company investors plus a broader engineering and manufacturing base to solidify continued product innovation for existing and future customers.
Previous roles for Brian include marketing at Sorrento Networks, an optical networking systems vendor; operations and business development at Rhythms NetConnections, a nationwide DSL service provider; and business development at NextWave Telecom, an upstart nationwide wireless operator.
Brian has an MS in engineering management from Stanford University, a BS in electrical engineering from Cornell University, and he served as an F-14 Tomcat Radar Intercept Officer in the US Navy.
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We toured many facilities during our evaluation process and the AIS Lightwave Data Center was quite impressive. And with this being set up as the focal point of our critical communications infrastructure, we really wanted an experienced provider with a solid reputation. AIS hit high marks on all the things that mattered to us.Ed Soto, network administratorPhoenix Children’s Academy
AIS BusinessCloud1 is a powerful platform that provides us with resources on demand with the right combination of security, connectivity, and control. The tremendous cost savings of nearly $150,000 in capital equipment alone was a huge plus. We also appreciate the point and click simplicity.Matthew Diener, IT managerleading analytics platform provider
We are delighted to be working inside the AIS data center to provide full service managed storage to enterprise clients. We understand the importance of Phoenix in the disaster recovery market and have the processes, systems and culture in place to become a seamless extension of the IT services team for any sized organization.John Nash, CEO and founderPhreedom Technologies
As Infinitely Virtual continues to grow, we make massive investments into our hosting infrastructure. The addition of our secondary facility into the AIS Lightwave Data Center, with its multi-gigabit connectivity to its space inside the Los Angeles One Wilshire Data Center, will enable us to accommodate our intense growth and accelerate the release of new products and services.Adam Stern, CEO and presidentInfinitely Virtual and Altay Corp
The cloud I/O of AIS BusinessCloud1 has significantly exceeded our expectations compared to a standard server cluster that is both more expensive to deploy and maintain. By partnering with AIS, Diagnomics has achieved flexibility that is required so that genome annotation can take the next step towards delivering on the vision of personalized medicine.Min Lee, CEODiagnomics
We were seeking a reliable partner in the United States who had the infrastructure, the procedures, the know-how and a willingness to work with us to create a solution that’s truly tailored to our needs. The team at AIS mapped out a hybrid cloud infrastructure that made sense and could be implemented in a way that eases the burden of support on our end. In effect, we feel AIS is an extension of our business.Sridhar Reddy, CEOCtrlS Datacenters
Completing the Service Organization Controls (SOC) process which provides verification by a third party of the validity and functionality of our control activities and processes, is an important step for AIS. Now that we have expanded our portfolio to include AIS BusinessCloud1, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), we are finding that more companies are seeking this additional level of compliance.Frank Gaff, chief compliance officerAIS
This is an important milestone for AIS – affirming that our enterprise-class data centers have the appropriate internal controls in place for assuring the highest level of standards for compliance, security and availability. We want our clients to feel comfortable that we are committed to taking the necessary steps to assure their peace-of-mind as they seek us out for colocation, connectivity, managed services and now, our full-featured cloud service. Our SOC 2 examination clearly sets us apar…Tim Caulfield, CEOAIS
By housing additional infrastructure in the AIS Phoenix data center, many of our fast-growing customers demands for services that require multiple facilities can finally be answered. We also needed additional colocation space, and we chose to continue growing with our trusted partner AIS by securing the additional footprint in Phoenix.Scheron Briones, vice president, engineeringColor Broadband
AIS provided the highest quality network in the area and colocation space with more than enough power to meet our requirements. I have used AIS services in some form or shape over the last 15 years, and not once have I ever regretted that!Joseph Manis, ownerCaliHop
Our customers have been looking for ways to smoothly and cost-effectively migrate to the cloud without the burden and costs associated with implementation. With our BusinessCloud1 service, customers can gain immediate access to and deploy cloud resources that have been built to the highest standards of performance and availability, at an extremely affordable price point.Tim Caulfield, CEOAIS
The company had grown to the point where we began to look for a new headquarters. At the same time, we were seriously considering whether to continue owning our own data center or to partner with a leading industry partner and further strengthen our already best-in-class hosting services. AIS proposed an ideal solution for us right here in our back yard with the connectivity, flexible power and security we needed, plus we’d be able to maintain the control of the data center as though it were i…Erez Nir, CTOMitchell International
Natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes, and man-made mayhem such as malware or even simple human error, are the types of events that can have devastating consequences for businesses that are reliant on mission-critical data and applications. With the one-year anniversary of the massive power outage that knocked out a large portion of Southern California upon us, we felt now was a great time to raise awareness of the need for DR planning and show how quickly and affordably …Tim Caulfield, CEOAIS
We had reached a critical point with our IT infrastructure where we had to make a decision on expanding our current facility or partnering with an enterprise-level data center. We were impressed with the Lightwave facility, the policies and procedures AIS has in place, like its ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) service architecture, and its knowledgeable staff. We feel AIS has mapped out a solid solution that can expand to meet our future business needs.Chris Rousseau, SVP global information technologyCallaway Golf
Besides our native hot standby resiliency, our enterprise customers value the geographic redundancy we provide with AIS data centers in San Diego and Phoenix. We over-engineer to handle peak traffic and have the ability to offer business continuity with redundant databases and load balancing between sites. The bottom line is we are operating with the fault tolerance of a world class service provider, which is an important consideration for the Fortune 500 enterprises we are working with.Lance Fried, CEOHold-Free Networks
Our AppStack solution enables service providers and enterprise customers to move and manage complex cloud applications throughout their life cycle. That means we have deep first-hand knowledge of a wide variety of public and private clouds, as well as cloud orchestration platforms. After working closely with AIS to thoroughly test and implement our software and exhaustively stress-test AIS BusinessCloud1, our team at Appcara is quite impressed with the service. It is indeed a viable, enterprise-…John Yung, founder and CEOAppcara
Since day one, we’ve been impressed with the Lightwave facility along with the quality of expertise and support we received from AIS. As our business continues to grow, it is comforting to know we have an infrastructure and managed services provider who we can work with as a partner to ensure we have the unsurpassed uptime, fast network and comprehensive levels of services we need to support our expanding customer base.Greg Vacca, presidentSaveDaily