Tim Caulfield
Chief Executive Officer
A well-known thought-leader during the evolution of the hosting industry, Caulfield 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.
As senior vice president of Global Operations at Savvis, a global leader in IT infrastructure services for enterprises, Caulfield 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, Caulfield was responsible for the company's top customers, as well as its Professional Services and Managed Security Services businesses.
While at Cable & Wireless America, Caulfield led its Hosting business, which represented over $450MM of revenue.
Caulfield holds an MBA from the University of Oregon and a BA from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Mark De John
Vice President of Sales
De John possesses over twenty years of successful sales management, sales and management consulting experience with various information technologies and professional services.
His areas of expertise include IT solutions and professional services tailored to address governance, risk and compliance solutions, data center infrastructure, security, managed services and business process applications.
De John has helped numerous enterprise clients with acute IT outsourcing and managed hosting needs by leveraging his deep knowledge of the space, to transform their vision into actualized solutions.
Prior to AIS, De John held senior management positions at Deloitte Consulting and Paisley as well as sales roles at Exodus, Cable & Wireless and Savvis.
Kevin O'Hare
Chief Financial Officer
O'Hare 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, O'Hare 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.
O'Hare 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.
O'Hare holds a BA Degree in Finance from Villanova University.
Frank Gaff
Director of Service Delivery & Client Services
Gaff has over 30 years of experience in IT, data center and telecommunications operations, including 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.
At AIS, Gaff 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.
Gaff's extensive background includes serving as program manager for the on time, in-budget, $6.3 M relocation of over 1300 servers in three internal data centers to a 600 virtualized server colocation facility. He also developed the roadmap, costs and time table to consolidate over twenty-five data centers and outsourced hosting environments.
Gaff holds a BS in Business Management from Farleigh Dickinson University and an MBA from Fordham University.
Ken Carter
Vice President Data Center Operations
A professionally certified Data Center Design Electro-mechanical engineer, Carter 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 Carter.
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.
Carter holds a BS in Engineering from Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of Dayton.
Steve Wallace
Vice President of Managed Services and Network Engineering
Wallace 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. Wallace has also held both military and civilian positions in communications, network operation, and data security.
At AIS, Wallace is responsible for managing and growing the engineering team and high-availability service infrastructure to support rapid regional expansion.
Prior positions 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.