Full Name
Phill Lawson-Shanks
Job Title
Chief Innovation Officer
Company
Aligned Data Centers
Speaker Bio
Phill has over 25 years of experience identifying new opportunities for the growth of leading data center infrastructure, network architecture, and cloud solutions, both in the U.S. and internationally. As Chief Innovation Officer at Aligned Data Centers, Phill is responsible for managing revenue generation and profitability objectives while championing key innovations, technologies, and sustainability strategies aimed at maximizing business development. Before joining Aligned, Phill served as Chief Innovation Officer at EdgeConneX, where he was instrumental in driving strategies for creating the next generation of edge-based network data centers to enable the digital content ecosystem. Throughout his career, Phill has held various senior executive positions at Virtacore, Alcatel-Lucent, SAVVIS (now CenturyLink Technology Solutions), and MCI, where he founded the Digital Media Technologies division (now Verizon Digital Media Services), as well as at Compaq/HPE. He currently holds eight active technology patents and serves on the Board of Directors for Netrality Data Centers, as Managing Director for the Nomad Futurist Foundation, and on the Clean Energy Buyers Alliance (CEBA) Advisory Board, along with several other industry technology advisory boards.
Phill Lawson-Shanks