Digital Crossroad Leadership

The leadership team brings more than 125 years of data center expertise having built out and commissioned 26 million square feet of data center space and 1,345MW of critical power. With over $20 billion in CAPEX deployed across 30 countries for 78 of the Fortune 100, this team is capable of delivering any scale requirement.

Thomas P. Dakich

Thomas P. Dakich

Managing Member

Tom’s 35 years of practice has centered on the development of telecommunications and data centers, including more than $500 million in transactions from sales or mergers of companies domestic and international. Tom has represented and been a part of the legal and development teams that own urban data centers throughout the world, including the Quinby Building in Los Angeles, GNO TeleHouse in London, various entities in Indianapolis and New York City.
Tom’s broad ranged expertise includes labor, city, state and federal government negotiations. Including Tax Incentives, P3 partnerships and development. He has substantive legal experience in telecommunications and construction, including 20 years of experience serving as the Secretary and General Counsel for TK6, Inc./CES International, Inc. and General Counsel GEMCO Constructors, LLC.

Tom resides in Indianapolis and has worked from offices in London, Sydney, Tampa, Chicago, San Francisco and New York. He graduated from Wabash College and the Indiana University School of Law.

Kirk Offel

Kirk Offel

Chief Executive Officer

Kirk has an exceptional track record of cultivating business and servicing the industry’s leading enterprise institutions, data center operators, cloud providers as well as all of FAMGA (Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon). With over two decades of expertise in designing, developing and effectively delivering product to market for leading data center and
infrastructure companies, Kirk is responsible for helping date center owners and operators with expanding their service offering to large enterprise and cloud players. Kirk has managed diverse teams spread out throughout EMEA and North America supporting customers across multiple verticals of industry including financial services, telecommunications, digital media, entertainment, system integration, managed services as well as multiple private equity partners. Kirk was recently a part of the executive leadership team at Aligned Energy and helped create the growth strategy with Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (MIP), which is an investment fund
managed by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), as well as BlueMountain
Capital Management, LLC. Kirk’s Data Center and Mission Critical career began in 1995 when he volunteered for US Navy Nuclear Fast Attack Submarine service (SSN-691). Over the course of his career Kirk has worked for Medtronic, Active Power, EatonCorporation, Hewlett-Packard’s Technology Services Consulting practice (EYP), CyrusOne Data Centers, NOVA Mission Critical
and most recently Aligned Energy.
Kirk has served in numerous Executive Roles throughout his career. Kirk is also the founder
of the Data Center Austin Conference (DC/AC) which is a technical summit focused on bringing data center professionals together at a launch point of discovery and
collaboration to solve tomorrow’s capacity challenges. In addition to having worked
with a large number of the Fortune 1000 Kirk has worked with some of the largest data center providers in the world throughout the globe. Kirk is a member of the “Class of
2010 Military Top 40 under 40” and currently resides in Texas.
John Greenwood

John Greenwood

Chief Strategy Officer

Greenwood is an experienced executive with a long history in the information technology and services industry. He has strong business development skills with a BA from Marquette University, a MBA focused in Finance from the University of Dallas, and a Masters in Telecommunications from SMU in Dallas. His specialties include data center management, cloud computing, cybersecurity, corporate development, and Internet-of-Things (IoT).
In his previous role as Senior Vice President of Sales for Aligned Energy, Greenwood developed sales and marketing strategies, lead strategic partnerships and alliances, and ensured his team had the necessary resources for a successful sales process.
Sam Persico

Sam Persico

Chief Financial officer

Senior executive and CFO with an extensive financial, operational and investment background in commercial real estate, construction and more recently data center development. Past CFO positions include The John Buck Company, City Club Apartments and Environmental Protection Industries. Sam previously served as a financial and compliance consultant to the FDIC as well as a Senior Vice President of a successful family-owned commercial real estate development company. Sam’s career started in a top Chicago public accounting firm and he is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the State of Illinois.

Sam is a passionate leader and mentor who has successfully built and led teams responsible for all aspects of financial reporting, accounting, treasury management, investor and lender relations, and budgeting and forecasting for several organizations. Sam also has extensive transactional experience serving both buyers and sellers in numerous real estate transactions.

Jesse Sargent

Jesse Sargent

EVP Construction Services

Jesse has over 10 years of mission critical experience starting in the poppy fields and mountain ranges of Afghanistan, where he led young men into battle as a gun team leader in the
United States Army. After completing his service, Jesse returned home and went straight into the mechanical trade. He brings a unique insight into project planning and delivery, having worked in
the trenches with each of the trades, as well as having managed multimillion-dollar projects as
a GC. He has protected the owner as an Owners Rep and deployed over $600 million in capital as an owner, for a top colocation provider. At Overwatch, his mission is to deliver the highest
quality product available while ensuring that our employees have a positive, family-friendly environment that nurtures both personal and professional growth.
Most recently, Jesse was the director of platform delivery at Aligned Energy where he
was responsible for all day-to-day construction activities across fourcampuses and deploying over $600 million in capex. With over 10 years of mission critical experience, he has built
for every large colocation provider as well as a majority of the FAMGA (Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google andAmazon). Jesse has overseen the coordination of over1,000 contractors and a supply chain valued at over 400 million dollars.
Anthony Garcia

Anthony Garcia

VP Solutions Engineering

Anthony cut his teeth serving around the world in the US Army. During the 8 ½ years that he served honorably, Anthony’s character was forged through a variety of commanding experiences, such as constructing helipads in California, sky-diving missions in Georgia, mountain warfare training in Hawaii, leading men in combat in the Kunar River Valley, managing construction projects in eastern Afghanistan, and testing electronic warfare systems in the
desert southwest.
In 2014, Anthony completed his final mission in the US Army and commenced the next chapter of his career, building communication towers for T-Mobile & AT&T, throughout the United States. Anthony was further advanced in recruitment to build data centers for CyrusOne and Zayo at NOVA Mission Critical. While at NMC, Anthony led and managed a multi-million-dollar program with Google Fiber, handling numerous consultingcontracts simultaneously. Anthony has
spent the past 2 ½ years deploying cloud infrastructure around the globe
as an employee of Oracle Cloud before joining Digital Crossroad.