Biography

Mr. Gary J. Wojtaszek has served as our director since June 2018, and had been an observer of our board of directors since October 2017. Mr. Wojtaszek has extensive experience founding, growing, leading, and monetizing private and public companies of scale. He is the founder and CEO of RecNation, which is the largest institutional owner of specialized boat and RV storage facilities in the United States. From August 2011 to February 2020, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of CyrusOne, Inc., a real estate investment trust that builds and manages carrier-neutral hyperscale data centers globally and was one of the top 5 best performing REITS in the US under his leadership. Prior to CONE, Mr. Wojtaszek served as chief financial officer and board member of Cincinnati Bell Inc., where he had responsibility for the data center business and oversaw CyrusOne’s successful creation, spin-off, and IPO. Before joining Cincinnati Bell in July 2008, he held various senior financial executive positions in Semi-conductor, Automotive and Educational companies. He also is a board member of Quantum Loophole, developer of master planned data center communities in the U.S, Nxtra Data Centers in India, Involta Data Center in the US and recently served on the Board of Talen Energy which is one of the largest power generation providers in the United States overseeing its bankruptcy reorganization and the development of a data center next to a nuclear plant as part of Cumulus Data. Mr. Wojtaszek serves as an industry advisor to global investment firm, The Carlyle Group, Inc. and Actis, a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure and sits on the board of the data center engineering program at Southern Methodist University. He has a BA from Rutgers University and a MBA from Columbia University.