Executive Leadership

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Meet the leaders driving innovation in data center cooling.

Our executive team brings decades of experience and a bold vision for transforming how data centers stay cool, efficient, and sustainable.

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KEITH MARKLEY
Chief Executive Officer

  • 30+ years building and operating data centers.
  • Former CEO at Tierpoint.
  • Serial entrepreneur.

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CHRIS ORLANDO
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer

  • Current CEO at ScaleMatrix
  • Co-founder at DDC
  • Prolific speaker and thought leader in Data Center and AI topics

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MARK ORTENZI
Founder and CTO

  • Co-founder at DDC
  • Over 20 years of leadership in data center innovation
  • Recognized industry voice in infrastructure design

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ALAN RUSSO
Chief Revenue Officer

  • Leads commercial organization
  • 25-year leader of sales and marketing at companies like APC, Stem and Bloom Energy

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PAUL BARTLETT
Chief Operating Officer

  • Leads project engineering and deployments
  • 30+ years global business operations

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Bob Hicks
Chief Customer Officer

  • Responsible for customer success
  • 30+ years DC leadership at Tierpoint, Recovery Point Systems and 365 Data Centers

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JEFF WEGENER
Chief Financial Officer

  • Experienced CFO growing businesses in all stages of development
  • Responsible for all financial management and people services
Case Study Deco
Case Study Decoration

Our cabinet cooling platform has been deployed by many leading data centers, who are seeing the transformative impact on their business operations with greater precision, flexibility and efficiency.

KEITH MARKLEY

Chief Executive Officer, DDC Solutions