DataBank CEO and leadership

Kevin Ooley serves as the Chief Financial Officer of DataBank. He has over 20 years of extensive experience delivering shareholder value through the creation and execution of growth and operational strategies. Prior to joining DataBank in conjunction with Avista Capital Partners' acquisition in 2011, Kevin served as CFO of Thompson Media Group. Prior to that, Kevin served as Principal at Lovett Miller & Co., a growth capital private equity firm based in Florida. He was also Director of Strategy for iXL Enterprises, and Manager in Accenture's Strategic Services practice. Mr. Ooley holds a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a MBA from Duke University.

Specializing in security / vulnerability assessments professional and security compliance with vendor acquisitions and assessments.

Responsible for preparing for audits and accomplishing annual Service Organizations / Vendor assessment and compliance processes by development of a repeatable assurance program that allows for measurement of security posture, year over year.

Conversely, I am an expert in assisting smaller and mid-size companies in presenting their security posture to potential business partners, guiding your company through the complex and sometimes daunting process of answering vendor security / posture questionnaires, developing a compliant security program, and remaining compliant with client demands.

Specialties:

- Technology and Security Leadership, Management and Strategy (Former Chief Technology Officer in the higher education arena.)

- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

- Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI)

- Certified COMPTIA Security + | Network + | A+

- Ethical Hacking

- Network Security

- Physical Security

- Privacy Professional (IAPP)

- CRISC Training

- Policy Compliance and Auditing

- Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)

- Sarbanes Oxley (SOX)

- Gramm Leach Bliley act (GLBa)

- Risk Assessment

- COBIT / ITIL

- FAIR

- Citrix ZenApp 6.5

- Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2 w (Roles - RDP/DNS/AD/DHCP)

- Server Administration and Management

- Network Administration and Management

- Workstation Administration and Management

Vlad is a seasoned IT veteran with over 25 years of mission-critical IT experience. Vlad joined the DataBank management team as CTO in September 2017 with the acquisition of Edge Hosting. In his role as DataBank’s Chief Technology Officer, Vlad guides the direction for development, implementation and management of the company’s overall technology strategies. Prior to DataBank, Vlad founded Edge Hosting, a compliance-driven IaaS and PaaS Managed Cloud Hosting service provider, in 1998 as a spin-off from his first IT venture ACS, which was started in 1991 while he was still a student at the University of Maryland. ACS was a software startup that created the only packaged solution for large scale automotive logistics processing that was widely adopted by auto manufacturers, port processors and transportation carriers around the globe. Under Vlad’s direction, the company flourished to thousands of servers in geographically diverse data centers, hosting highly secure, mission-critical hosting for web and line-of-business applications.

Joe Minarik joined DataBank as Chief Operations Officer in January 2022 and is responsible for all of the company’s data center and colocation operations, engineering, construction, managed services, network and security, and IT operations. Minarik is a pioneer in the cloud and data center community having joined Amazon in 2005, a year before the public launch of AWS. In his 16 years there, Minarik led the development of the company’s underlying data center and network infrastructure. In his most recent role as Global Head of Data Center Supply, Minarik was responsible for a multi-billion dollar budget and all data center strategy and procurement activities across a global footprint of 25 regions, 18 Availability Zones and 275 Points of Presence. Prior to joining Amazon, Minarik held senior IT positions at leading brands such as Disney and Napster. He received his B.S. in computer Science from the University of Michigan.