Infrascale CEO and leadership

Russ is a 25+ year hi-tech, sales, product, and branding exec with an outstanding track record of building organizational cultures that scale. Russ has managed high-growth, multi-billion-dollar global organizations that transform industries by consistently developing and leading diverse teams that revitalize organizations and deliver growth while increasing employee and customer satisfaction. His hi-tech background ranges from start-up ventures to Fortune 500 giants like Oracle and his first programming job at Mobil Oil. Leveraging his 20+ years of executive leadership and technical experience combined with his successful sales and cloud industry knowledge, Russ has the unique ability to drive global growth while maintaining a diverse, fun, and healthy work culture. Before Infrascale, Russ led OVHcloud's growth into the US, rebranding OVH to OVHcloud, acquired vCloud Air from VMware, and built two additional data centers in the US. Russ also led the premium cloud hosting company, MediaTemple (mt), responsible for its global sales growth, brand, strategic direction, culture, and operational execution. Additionally, Russ helped lead the sale of MediaTemple (mt) to GoDaddy, where he stayed on the GoDaddy executive leadership team to help transform GoDaddy's multi-billion cloud and hosting business, build a culture of growth, and prepare for their IPO. Before Media Temple (mt), Russ led the growth of LibreDigital, the first company to distribute ebooks to the Kindle, iBooks, and other leading ebook stores, and helped run the process to sell to RR Donnelley. Russ also led NxTV to the forefront of the direct-to-consumer Internet TV and Internet video-on-demand. In 1997 Russ started his management career in Redwood City, CA, at Oracle, where he ran the West Coast Enterprise Application Sales team focused on companies with over $1 billion in revenue.Throughout his career and life beyond business, Russ has been an attentive student of innovation that drives change. He continues to hone and apply a leadership philosophy inspired by his grandfather and professional mentors.Read about his leadership philosophy on his blog, https://russreeder.com/h-e-a-r-leadership/ In January 2019, Russ was the closing ceremony speaker at the nine-year HBS President's Program in Leadership (PPL), Young Presidents Organization (YPO).Even 26 years ago with Senator John Warner… Russ was the graduate commencement address speaker, James Madison University (JMU) https://russreeder.com/speaking/

Rob loves his work. Not just as a job, but as a passion that rewards continuous learning and development. He brings a forward- thinking approach to maximizing the efficiency and resiliency of our portfolio companies. This method enables you – the entrepreneur – to focus on the priority: building your business. As a General Partner at Route 66, Rob manages private debt investments, including specialty finance and structured credit transactions. His thought leadership and 15 years of experience in portfolio management, including structuring, analysis, trading, and risk management of fixed income investments, help maintain a smooth, creative process. Previously, Rob headed the capital markets function of Goal Financial, a student loan originator, where he issued and restructured over $1 billion of debt securities and generated profits in excess of $100 million. He also managed a $2.5 billion portfolio of mortgage, municipal, corporate, and asset-backed investments for E*Trade Bank; and managed a $7 billion mortgage loan portfolio at Friedman Billings Ramsey. Rob began his career at KPMG as a structured finance analyst, where he honed his financial modeling expertise across a variety of mainstream and niche asset classes.

Executive-level leader with 25+ years of strategy, vision-setting, planning and execution experience in technology and services. Proficient in business/product management, marketing, and operational leadership roles. Expert manager of high-profile/high-accountability projects with a reputation of crafting unique, right-fit solutions that achieve exceptional results. Leader, coach, and developer of high-caliber teams. Attuned to dynamic landscapes with sharp focus on business growth and customer delight. Passionate and demanding, yet pragmatic and playful.Specialties: - Product/Business Management, User Experience, Strategy, and Planning - Digital Marketing, Demand Generation- Project/Program Management- Team Leadership & Human Resource Planning/Development- Technology Products & Services - Strategic Partnership Management