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Our 80 combined years of colocation, data center, and IT infrastructure experience are here to help, 24/7
Management Team
We launched Colovore in 2013, but we’ve been running colocation facilities and data centers for Silicon Valley web giants since the late 1990s
SEAN HOLZKNECHT
PRESIDENT & CO-FOUNDER
Sean has been leading and managing colocation facilities and data centers in the Bay Area since 1997. Prior to co-founding Colovore, Sean was VP of Operations at Evocative, Inc, a leading retail colocation provider in the Bay Area and winner of numerous Inc. 5000 awards for its impressive growth. Sean ran all day-to-day sales and operations activities. Prior to Evocative, Sean founded and ran Emerytech Data Center, and served as Western Region Operations Manager for both Navisite and Colo.com. Sean started his career at Pacific Bell, managing multiple central offices in San Francisco.
BEN COUGHLIN
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER & CO-FOUNDER
Ben has a long history as a communications-focused private equity investor, providing advisory services to and serving on the Boards of Directors of numerous growing technology companies. Prior to co-founding Colovore, Ben was a Partner at Spectrum Equity Investors, a leading private investment firm with $5 billion in capital and specializing in communications, digital media, and technology-enabled businesses. Over his 13 years at Spectrum, Ben was involved with investments totaling nearly $3 billion in equity and debt capital.
PETER HARRISON
CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER & CO-FOUNDER
Peter has built the core web infrastructure for several of Silicon Valley’s internet titans and is CCIE-certified, among many technical accomplishments. Most recently, Peter worked at Google where he helped manage global data center demand and capacity planning; the Google Fiber FTTH program and its initial data center infrastructure rollout; and YouTube’s CDN server deployment and maintenance. Prior to Google, Peter was an Operations Director at eBay, where he helped build Shopping.com’s search engine grid infrastructure, and a Network Manager at Netflix, where he helped launch Netflix’s streaming Internet Video technology.
DAVE SMITH
VICE PRESIDENT OF DESIGN & ENGINEERING
As Principal and Vice President of Critical Facilities Design at Ecom Engineering Inc, Dave brings Colovore a unique blend of data center and electrical critical facilities design and construction management experience. For the past eleven years Dave has overseen the design, construction and commissioning of multiple data center projects including Fortune Data Centers. Prior to Ecom, Dave spent three years as MEP engineering manager at Equinix overseeing the design, construction and commissioning of seven IBX projects and also spent seventeen years as a senior project manager for one of the largest design-build electrical and engineering contractors in California.
Investors and Board of Directors
Colovore is private and profitable, supported by a very experienced group of data center operators and developers and I.T. investors.
Our investors include Digital Realty Trust, the leading global provider of data centers and colocation services, and Pelio & Associates, a long-standing Silicon Valley data center and real estate development firm.
Our Board of Directors is an experienced group who has developed and run data centers, and significantly invested in and advised growing technology companies and REITs over many years and economic cycles.
BEN COUGHLIN
CHAIRMAN + CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Former Partner, Spectrum Equity Investors
Executive Advisory Board, Camden Partners
Trustee, Carey School
SEAN HOLZKNECHT
PRESIDENT
VP of Operations at Evocative, Inc.
Founder Emerytech Data Center
Western Region Operations Manager Navisite and Colo.com
LES PELIO
Founder and Principal of Pelio and Associates
SCOTT E. PETERSON
Former Chief Investment Officer, Digital Realty
Former Managing Director, GI Partners
CHRIS SHARP
Chief Technology Officer, Digital Realty
MICHAEL TORRES
Principal and CEO of Adelante Capital Management
City National Bank Advisory Board
Advisory Board UC Berkeley’s Cal Athletics
DOUG TUDOR
Managing Partner, Ravenscourt Partners
Former Senior Executive, Asurion
Co-founder and President, Clear Creek Environmental
