Advisory Board
The Global Digital Infrastructure (GDI) Advisory Board plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of the Program. Composed of experts from the subsea cable and data center industries, as well as leaders from academia, policy, and sustainability sectors, the Board provides strategic guidance to enhance the program’s educational, research, and engagement initiatives.
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.
Linsey Miller (EATON)
Lynsey Thomas (LT Consulting)
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.
Abdul Ravoof (STC)
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.
Eric Yang (George Masons University)
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.
James Murphy (STV)
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.
Hiba Agha (IMasons)
Hiba Agha is Director of People Programs at Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) and Executive Director of the iMasons Foundation, where she leads the organization’s global education-to-workforce strategy for the digital infrastructure industry. In this role, she oversees partnerships across K–12, higher education, workforce development, and industry to build clear, equitable pathways into careers in data centers, cloud, and digital infrastructure.
With a background in research, public policy, and nonprofit leadership, Hiba brings a systems-level perspective to workforce development—focusing on access, skills, and long-term career mobility. At iMasons and the iMasons Foundation, she is building the structures that enable industry to invest collectively in talent, ensuring the digital infrastructure sector has the people it needs to support the world’s growing digital economy.
Vlad Gabriel Anghel (DCD)
Vlad-Gabriel Anghel is Director of Solutions Engineering at DCD>Academy, working at the intersection of data center technology, workforce development, and industry standards. He brings hands-on experience across critical power, cooling, connectivity, and digital infrastructure architectures, with a particular focus on how different types of workloads are reshaping facility design and operational requirements. Vlad regularly collaborates with operators, vendors, and design professionals to translate complex technical concepts into practical, industry-relevant frameworks. His work supports the development of resilient, scalable, and sustainable data center infrastructure, with an emphasis on closing skills gaps across the global digital infrastructure ecosystem.
Nancy is happiest when learning something new, often by surrounding herself with deeply passionate people kind enough to share their wisdom. Five years at Telstra meant that she’s explored marketing, accounting, and people enablement - a combo she didn’t anticipate after graduating in Commerce and Law from the University of New South Wales (Sydney). She’s convinced digital infrastructure, in all shapes and sizes, will determine our future, and she’s tickled to be part of the Certificate in Global Digital Infrastructure.
Nancy Cai (TELESTRA)
Brandon Gries (EQUINIX)
An engineer, a builder, and a creative; Brandon spent the first 15 years of his career designing and manufacturing modular data centers. For several years he has contributed thought leadership and mentorship to the data center community, in particular his film Bare Metal focused on supply chain decarbonization. Currently he works as a director of procurement within Equinix.
Rajesh Kheny (Solis Ventures LLC)
Mr. Kheny is currently the Managing Director at Solis Ventures LLC, specializing in providing consulting services for the SubSea Industry. He has over 30 years of experience in SubSea System Planning, Design, Implementation and Operations having worked for a mix of companies including carriers, content players, suppliers and consultants. Mr. Kheny has been associated with several of the world’s SubSea projects across the various phases of SubSea Program implementation and operations.
Mr. Kheny has previously worked as lead and senior positions in AT&T Bell Laboratories, Tyco Telecommunications, Meta and SubCom. He has also worked with many consultant companies in the US, Europe, Middle East and South and South East Asia, representing a broad mix of public and private clientele and providing them with a variety of services including business development, due diligence, design and planning and project and operations management.
Immediately prior to restarting his consultancy work in Solis Ventures LLC in 2025, Mr. Kheny was Senior Director of Marine Procurement Management for SubCom, where he lead the team responsible for global strategic procurement activities for all of SubCom’s third party Marine Suppliers. Prior to that, Mr Kheny was the Lead for Meta’s Global Program Management Team for SubSea Networks where he worked with a cross-functional team of program managers, engineers and investment managers and partnered with industry carriers, content players and suppliers.
Tom Liddy (DCD)
Tom joined the data center industry as a graduate marketing executive after leaving University in 2020, and has spent the last 6 years at DCD working in their training & development division, DCD>Academy.
Now overseeing DCD>Academy’s commercial teams globally, Tom works with DCD’s offices & clients in the Americas, Europe and Asia to build workforce development programs for data center operators, solution providers, and consulting engineering firms.
As part of his role, Tom also works on a number of DCD’s global workforce development initiatives, collaborating with partners like Berkeley and the The Global Digital Infrastructure (GDI) initiative to build, develop and deliver educational programs to the next generation of digital infrastructure professionals.
Sebastian Moss (DCD)
Sebastian Moss is the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of DatacenterDynamics (DCD), and Publisher of SDxCentral. Sebastian has covered the digital infrastructure space for the past decade at the world's largest publication dedicated to the sector. His articles have been sent to the Moon, archived for 10,000 years, and have won multiple awards.
David McCullough (Brightnet Consulting)
David McCullough is a technology executive, founder, and product leader who builds AI-driven digital infrastructure platforms from concept to production. With nearly two decades of experience across data centers, interconnection, and network-as-a-service, he focuses on turning complex infrastructure constraints into scalable operating businesses and practical, deployable systems.
David most recently served as Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Verde Money, where he led the end-to-end development of an AI-driven fintech platform from zero to launch, spanning product strategy, UX, platform architecture, and execution. He has since stepped away from Verde and now continues to advise digital infrastructure companies and early-stage startups as part of advisory work he began in 2023, while building new infrastructure-centric platforms focused on AI-ready data centers, interconnection, and network automation. He actively develops software using AI across the product lifecycle and believes AI-native design will define the next generation of global infrastructure.
David has previously held senior leadership roles at Equinix, Megaport, Console Connect (a division of PCCW), and XO Communications (acquired by Verizon), driving growth through hyperscaler partnerships and new interconnection products.
Ruth Redding (Cambridge Management Consulting)
Ruth Redding brings over 25 years of leadership experience in the technology sector. She currently balances two key roles: serving as an Associate at Cambridge Management Consulting, where she advises and coaches organizations who are navigating transformations, and leading her own independent leadership coaching practice. As an ICF accredited coach, she is deeply passionate about professional development and the human aspect of leadership, focusing on fostering authentic, resilient environments where diverse talent can thrive.
Prior to her current work, Ruth held senior executive roles in the optical networking sector, most notably as Vice President for North and Central Europe at Infinera. Her extensive career has been defined by a focus on the optical networks - both subsea and terrestrial - that form the backbone of the global internet, a core pillar of the GDI Program.
As a member of the GDI Advisory Board, Ruth is particularly dedicated to bringing the next generation of professionals into the digital infrastructure space. By blending her deep optical industry roots with her expertise in human-centric leadership, she aims to ensure that the GDI curriculum not only addresses technical excellence, but also the mentorship and professional soft skills required for the future leaders of the digital ecosystem.