OVERLAND PARK, Kan.,
May 4, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- QTS
Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS), one of the nation's largest and
fastest-growing providers of data center facilities, managed
hosting and cloud services, is announcing 13 key hires as part of
the new QTS Chicago team. These 13 professionals bring decades of
data center, sales and critical facility management experience to
expand the current facilities team.
Nabon Marsico is the QTS Chicago Site Director. Marsico,
formerly Regional Director for East Coast Operations for
Zayo/Latisys, was responsible for all of Zayo's Eastern United States data centers. Prior to
that, he was with Equinix, Stargate and Emerson/Liebert fulfilling
electrical engineering and facility management roles. Marsico
served in the U.S. Navy where he was a nuclear-trained electrician
aboard a fast-attack submarine.
Marsico has added on Hector
Hernandez as Data Center Operations Manager, Toby Hallmer as Critical Environment Technician
Manager, Jerry Knuz as Senior
Engineer, Art Garcia as Security
Operations Manager and Michael Guess
as DCIM Engineer. Additionally, he will soon be hiring CETs, DCO
Techs and a site coordinator.
"The level of talent in the Chicago area has been excellent and filled
with highly qualified candidates who have been drawn to QTS based
on our reputation of putting people first," said Nabon Marsico,
Chicago Site Director – QTS. "It has been exciting to be able to
build a team from the ground up. When choosing a team, I look for a
good cultural fit along with highly skilled qualifications."
The QTS sales team for Chicago
is led by Bill Winsininski, Director of Sales and is responsible
for building and leading the sales team in the Chicago market while driving sales and
marketing activities to grow its unique platform of custom data
centers, colocation, and cloud and managed services in Chicago. Winsininski joins QTS from ByteGrid
Data Center Partners where he was Vice President and General
Manager for the Midwest Region. He was responsible for
launching two data center properties and creating an ecosystem in
the Midwest driving over 3 megawatts of retail and wholesale deals.
Winsininski is a Navy Veteran and served as a Search and Rescue
Swimmer during Operation Desert Storm, where he was attached to the
6th fleet in the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian
Gulf.
Additional commercial colocation, data center and cloud sales
and solution engineering executives joining the Chicago team are Chad
Morris, formerly of Cumulus Technologies Group, Leo Chinnaswamy, formerly of Telx, John Macchia, formerly of ServerCentral,
Cindy O'Connell, formerly of WOW
Business, Kevin Piket, formerly of
CoverMyMeds and Tom Chaffin,
formerly of Continuum Data Centers.
"The team we have built thus far at QTS Chicago embodies our
commitment to customers," said Dan
Bennewitz, Chief Operating Officer, Sales and Marketing –
QTS. "Our people-powered approach means QTS invests in supplying
attentive, consultative service that is unmatched in the data
center industry."
Construction is nearing completion on the state-of-the-art data
center. QTS purchased the former Chicago Sun-Times Printing plant,
which sits on a 30-acre campus. The 317,000 square foot facility
will open July 2016.
About QTS
QTS Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: QTS) is a
leading provider of secure, compliant data center solutions, hybrid
cloud and fully managed services. QTS' integrated technology
service platform of custom data center (C1), colocation (C2) and
cloud and managed services (C3) provides flexible, scalable, secure
IT solutions for web and IT applications. QTS' Critical Facilities
Management (CFM) provides increased efficiency and greater
performance for third-party data center owners and
operators. QTS owns, operates or manages 24 data centers and
supports more than 1,000 customers in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more
information, please visit www.qtsdatacenters.com, call toll-free
877.QTS.DATA or follow us on Twitter @DataCenters_QTS.
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