Prior to GIGA, Jake founded DC BLOX as CEO in 2014 to provide comprehensive data center services for the SMB market including colocation and managed services. In 2017 he was made Vice Chairman after pivoting the company to providing expanded availability and network services, then left to found GIGA Data Centers to serve the Enterprise colocation market.

Prior to this, he was CMO for GE Energy Management where he led the global development of strategy and commercialization initiatives and led the creation of GE’s Critical Power business. He spent over nine years managing portfolio companies for private equity investors of electrical & electronic manufacturing businesses, and has also held executive leadership roles with Newark Electronics, American Superconductor Corp., and Emerson Electric, in which he led Marketing & Product Management for the Liebert division.

Daniel joins Giga Data Centers from DCD and SGI where he was the Principal Program Manager, World Wide Business Development Manager for the ICE Cube Product line. In early 2008, Daniel left Microsoft as a Data Center consultant to take over and build a new Modular Data Center (MDC) program for SGI (formerly Rackable Systems). He took a product concept and drove it to a successful product-market fit with a customer backed approach. Within 5 months Daniel kicked off a global MDC program with two employees, no marketing, zero internal funding, and a strategic global partnership strategy that included the manufacture of Microsoft’s first Containerized Data Centers. Within 12 months the MDC pipeline grew to over $40M, including manufacturing in the US and Europe and deployments on nearly every continent.

James is a military veteran and an accomplished creative, results-oriented engineer and leader with over 20+ years of electrical power systems and mission-critical infrastructure development. A holder of several patents, he is a Fellow in Good Standing of the International Hive Consortium and active member of the American Association for Advancement of Science. He has been instrumental in the planning, design and construction of data center facilities for IT and telecom including Microsoft, Apple, AT&T, and US Departments of Energy and Defense.