Advisory Board
James Murphy
James Murphy is a recognized industry leader in Program and Construction Management (PMCM), with more than 31 years of executive-level experience delivering complex capital programs across the public, private, and federal sectors. His expertise spans data centers, mission-critical facilities, power and energy infrastructure, and advanced manufacturing and pharmaceutical facilities, where precision, reliability, and speed-to-market are paramount.
Throughout his career, James has led and scaled high-performing PMCM organizations, successfully managing regional and national P&Ls for industry-leading firms. He has directed major public and private capital programs and spearheaded strategic business development initiatives, consistently aligning technical excellence with commercial performance and client objectives.
James currently serves as Senior Vice President and National Development Director at STV Inc.
Linsey Miller
Linsey is driven by her purpose to create an energy-efficient future for data centers and AI infrastructure. Throughout her career, she has started up and scaled business units for industrial Fortune 500 and private equity companies serving the data center market. She is currently the SVP and General Manager of Eaton’s Distributed IT Division (the combined businesses of Eaton, Tripp Lite and Wrightline acquisitions), which serves AI infrastructure, data center, and enterprise IT markets with critical power, connectivity and physical infrastructure solutions. Prior to Eaton, Linsey founded the Hyperscale Solutions division of Artesyn, a joint venture of Emerson Network Power and Platinum Equity, which was later sold to Advanced Energy where she led its Hyperscale, Enterprise and Telecom & Networking vertical organizations. Linsey also led the Utility energy management division, global services and M&A for Resideo (a Honeywell spin-off).
Linsey has served as a board member of the Home Connectivity Alliance alongside Samsung, LG, GE Appliances, Trane and others to create the Energy Management specification for grid-connected large appliances. Linsey serves on multiple charitable organization boards and sponsors industry progress with the Open Compute Project and Infrastructure Masons organizations. Linsey has a Bachelor of Business degree from The University of Texas at Austin, is an AMP alumna of the Harvard Business School, and holds a Corporate Board Director Certificate from HBS.
Lynsey Thomas
Lynsey Thomas is a telecoms specialist who has been involved in the international subsea business since 1995. She has a keen interest in corporate strategy development, network planning, project management and solutions marketing. Lynsey is experienced as a board director, trustee, system supplier, network operator and is currently the CEO of LT Consulting Ltd. She has held senior leadership positions at Cable&Wireless, Apollo SCS, Xtera, SubSea Networks, and currently serves as a board member for Cirion Technologies. She holds a Master’s degree in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford and is a previous columnist for The Guardian newspaper.
Eric Yang
Eric Yang is currently an adjunct faculty at GMU, teaching Data Center Engineering. He is an accomplished mechanical engineer with over 20 years of experience advancing energy efficiency in the built environment. He spent nearly three years as Principal Mechanical Engineer at Vantage Data Centers, leading mechanical design and innovation for hyperscale facilities. Before that, he served as a Senior Field Mechanical Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he improved the energy performance and operations of one of the world’s largest data center fleets.
Before joining the Data Center industry, he has spent over 13 years of professional experience in developing $500 million projects via Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC), focusing on existing building operations. He also worked for a large architectural engineering company, SmithGroup in Washington DC for three years. Mr. Yang has done all kinds of existing energy retrofit projects including hospitals, large offices, DOD facilities, prisons, data centers, laboratories, and K-12 schools.
Eric is a long-standing ASHRAE volunteer leader, actively involved in TC 9.9 (Mission Critical Facilities, Data Centers, Technology Spaces, and Electronic Equipment) and TC 7.6 (Building Energy Performance), where he has chaired the Energy Management Subcommittee since 2021. Eric is passionate about advancing sustainability, resilience, and decarbonization, and continues to champion innovative approaches that drive both design excellence and operational efficiency.
Abdul Ravoof
Abdul Ravoof is responsible for the operations of the Submarine Cable Landing Station and network operations at Zain Omantel International (ZOI). Currently, he is based in Saudi Arabia.
Prior to joining Zain Omantel International ( ZOI), Abdul worked with center3 (by Saudi Telecom Company), where he was involved in the operation and maintenance of several consortium and private submarine cable systems.
Earlier in his career, he was part of the Cable Landing Station and Network Operations team at SALAM in Saudi Arabia. He began his professional journey at Tata Communications, working as a Submarine NOC Engineer and worked as configuration specialist contributing to network projects and implementation activities.