Management Team

Jeff Monroe
Chief Executive Officer

Jeff Monroe is a veteran of the data centre industry and has developed some of the largest and most sophisticated data centres in the industry, with a total value exceeding $1.8 billion USD. He was a co-founder of the DuPont Fabros Technology wholesale data centre business and served as Managing Director, responsible for developing and implementing the wholesale operational model. Mr Monroe was instrumental in all aspects of the business, including data centre strategy, acquisitions, design, construction, operations, leasing and business development. Prior to Dupont Fabros, he was Vice President of Real Estate, Design, Construction and Director of Operations for AboveNet Communications, responsible for the deployment of twenty-four class A domestic and international technical facilities and the operations that supported more than five hundred collocation customers. Mr Monroe also managed the build-out of some of the largest technical projects in the U.S., including the National Archives' 1.7 million square foot storage facility, the headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), including the primary IRS data centre, and the primary data centres for America Online.

Tate Cantrell
Chief Technology Officer

Tate Cantrell's primary responsibilities include product design and development and data centre operations. Prior to Verne Global, Mr Cantrell acted as Vice President, Data Centre Technologies, at Dupont Fabros Technology. He was responsible for development and execution of operational strategies critical to the start-up of the Dupont Fabros Development Wholesale Data Centre business model, the first of its kind in the industry. Mr Cantrell also provided technical support for marketing and key business strategy expansion opportunities, and directed and managed strategy for all IT systems. Mr Cantrell has been involved in data centres and other high tech facilities for more than 15 years, starting as a research programmer for computational modeling on biomedical applications.

Isaac Kato
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Isaac Kato is responsible for the company's finances, Icelandic governmental affairs and corporate development. Before joining Verne Global as a full-time employee, Mr Kato was part of the team at General Catalyst Partners and Novator that initially conceived of and formed the venture. Prior to Verne Global, Mr Kato was a Principal at General Catalyst Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with over $2 billion USD under management. At GCP, he led the firm's investments in a number of technology-enabled services companies. Earlier in his career, Mr Kato worked as an investor at Summit Partners, a global private equity fund, and Shamrock Holdings, Inc., the Roy E. Disney family's private equity firm.

Lisa Rhodes
Vice President of Marketing and Sales

Lisa Rhodes is responsible for all aspects of customer interaction, marketing and public relations. Over the past twenty years, she has held senior sales and operations roles in several global information and communications companies. She was Vice President of RBOC Sales at Alcatel, Senior Vice President of Sales at IPC, Director of Sales at Sycamore Networks and Senior Director in IT at Verizon (MCI).