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Miles Loo Jr., CRE, FRICS, joined Newmark Valuation & Advisory in 2017 in the Downtown Los Angeles office, where he serves as an Executive Vice President and the Global Lead for Newmark Valuation & Advisory’s Data Centers & Life Science group.

Miles is well recognized as the industry’s leading appraiser of data center properties. His experience includes advising private equity funds, institutional investors, large pension funds, Fortune 500 companies, cloud companies and Global IT conglomerates on investments in all types of data centers, including mission critical, disaster recovery data centers, colocation facilities, carrier hotels, internet gateways and life science properties. These assignments have involved data centers owned and/or operated by Fortune 500 companies across numerous industries as well as Uptime Institute Site Certified Tier III and Tier IV facilities; U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED Platinum, Gold and Silver buildings; and state and federal disaster recovery data centers. Miles has led valuations of large individual and portfolio valuations spanning multiple countries across six continents (NA, EMEA, APAC, LATAM and African regions) and has consulted on a number of the world’s largest data centers.

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Matt Pfile is the founder and CEO of Crane Data Centers Inc., a data center developer and operator with a strong commitment to sustainability, customer centricity, and innovation. He has over 25 years of experience in telecom engineering, critical infrastructure acquisition, corporate banking, management consulting, and commercial negotiations. Prior to Crane, he spent 12+ years at Google leading over $5B of global infrastructure acquisitions and led the entry of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) into Australia and Japan, data center site selection strategy, third-party data center leasing, utility interconnections, and land acquisitions across the Americas and Asia. He received a degree in finance from Georgetown University and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.

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John is a Senior Vice President in Moody’s Global Project and Infrastructure Finance Team where he leads a diverse portfolio of project financings, data centers, PPPs, and municipal infrastructure issuers in the transportation, energy, digital, social, and environmental infrastructure sectors. John leads Moody’s data center working groups and Moody’s global PPP task force that he formed to serve as a central resource for market inquires, new research development and to build analytical capacity while maintaining consistency. John also organizes Moody’s annual US Infrastructure and Project Finance conference, authors research across sectors, and annually leads several new rating assignments for new project financings and PPPs in the US and Canada across all asset classes.

Before joining the PIF team in 2010, John spent two and a half years as a lead analyst for local governments and enterprises in Moody’s Eastern Regional Ratings Team where he was the lead for municipal issuers in Pennsylvania and New York while also covering municipal issuers in New Jersey, Virginia, and Florida. John helped launch and was the initial co-chair for Moody’s NY Multicultural Employee Resource Group and a founding steering committee member of Moody’s NY LGBTA Employee Resource Group.

Prior to joining Moody’s, John worked as a risk management analyst, a property and casualty insurance account manager, and a health care claims auditor. John earned his BA degree in Health Care Economics and Policy from Stanford University and his MPA in Health Care Public Finance from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

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With over $150MM commercial real estate experience as a principal investor, Matt Wanderer is an experienced founder, CEO, and member of multiple private equity and venture capital portfolio companies.​ Matt is a five-time “500 Fastest Growing Private Company Award” recipient. Matt is a proud Oregon Duck having earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon. He later earned his M.B.A. from NYU Stern School of Business, the London School of Economics, and HEC Paris.

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Veronica Huang is a Vice President – Senior Analyst at Moody’s Ratings, where she has been a key member of the CMBS New Ratings team since 2017. She leads the ratings analysis of conduit/fusion and large loan CMBS transactions, specializing in deals backed by complex and esoteric assets, including data centers. Veronica also leads Moody’s CMBS data center team and plays a pivotal role in developing the firm’s approach to data center CMBS and ABS ratings.

Previously, Veronica was a lead analyst on Moody’s RMBS Surveillance team, monitoring a portfolio of complex legacy RMBS transactions. She holds a Master of Science in Finance from the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School and graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Accounting from Drake University. Veronica is also a CFA charterholder.

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Chris Moon is a Managing Director, Credit at DigitalBridge Investment Management. Chris is responsible for origination in the Americas and European regions and has over 20 years of experience in the Communications and Technology sectors including over 15 years of direct experience in sourcing transactions in digital infrastructure.

Prior to joining DigitalBridge, Chris was a Managing Director and founding member of the TMT Sector Lending Group at ING Bank and had responsibility for origination, structuring and underwriting leveraged transactions in North America and LatAm. Prior to ING, he was an Analyst at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Management Division and a CPA at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in the Communications and Technology practice.

Chris received an MBA and MS in Tax and a dual Bachelor of Science in Finance and Computer Information Systems from Northeastern University. He is a CFA Charterholder and a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).

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Buddy Rizer serves as the Executive Director for economic development in Loudoun County, Virginia, which was named the 2021 Economic Development Organization of the Year by the International Economic Development Council. He leads the agency responsible for encouraging growth and developing relationships with Loudoun’s business community in both the commercial and agricultural-based business sectors. During his tenure, Rizer and his team have attracted more than $60 billion in new commercial investment and more than 50 thousand new jobs. During this time, the growth in the commercial based has help lower the tax rate in Loudoun by more than 41 cents on the dollar, saving residents thousands of dollars annually on their tax bill.

In 2007, Mr. Rizer joined Loudoun County and helped build “Data Center Alley” into the largest concentration of data centers in the world. He also has extensive international business development experience in China, France, Germany, Russia, Ireland, United Kingdom, Finland, Taiwan, Japan, India, Korea, Ghana, Uruguay, and the United Arab Emirates.

Mr. Rizer has been named a Tech Titan 7 times by Washingtonian Magazine (2017 – 2023), has been named one of the 50 most influential Virginians 6 times by Virginia Business Magazine (2018 – 2023), a 4-time member of Virginia’s Power 500 (2020 – 2023) and was three times named to the Washington Business Journal’s Power 100 as one of the most influential businesspeople in Washington, DC (2020, 2022, 2023).

Mr. Rizer serves as the Past-Chair of the Northern Virginia Economic Development Alliance (NOVA EDA), is a member of the Board of Trustees for Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), Past-Chair of the Northern Virginia Community College Foundation Board, Secretary of the Go Virginia Region 7 Council. He is on the Board of Directors for the Northern Virginia Technology Council, the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce, and the Washington Airports Task Force (WATF). He is also the Chair of the Rivana at Innovation Station Community Development Authority.

Mr. Rizer is a Certified Economic Developer (CEcD), a certified Entrepreneurship Development Professional (EDP) and a graduate of Virginia Tech's Local Government Management Graduate Certificate Program.

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Jonathan Schroth is a research analyst on the 451 Research Datacenter Infrastructure & Services team within S&P Global Market Intelligence. His research focuses on datacenter economics and capital markets; supply/demand, utilization and growth forecasts; retail, wholesale and hyperscale activity; government incentives and regulation; and pricing dynamics. He is responsible for geographical coverage of markets in the US (Greater New York/tri-state area, Boston/New England, Chicago and the Pacific Northwest) and the entirety of Canada (where the largest markets include Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver). He is also the team expert on submarine cable infrastructure, as well as trends around the intersection of traditional colocation and cryptocurrency mining.

Prior to joining S&P Global, Jonathan spent nearly a decade at Westfield Capital Management, a Boston-based equity investment firm, where he focused on portfolio construction and strategy as a member of the portfolio strategy team. He was also a consumer of technology in his role at Westfield, evaluating and helping to implement software packages that incorporated big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Jonathan received his bachelor of arts cum laude in Economics and English from Colby College. He is a CFA® charterholder.

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