Introducing the ASG-Team
- Strategy, GTM and Investment Advisory Services
- Business Development Efforts
- Product and Advanced Data Center Services
- Energy, Cloud and Internet Infrastructure
- Innovation and Edge Services
- Digital Marketing
The ASG-Team
Proven Leadership with a Rigor for Execution
Jarrett Appleby - Managing Parter/CEO
In his 30 years in the data center and network telecommunications industries, Mr. Appleby has enjoyed a very accomplished career achieving aggressive financial objectives for shareholders and investors alike . Most recently, Jarrett served as the Chief Operating Officer of Digital Realty Trust (DLR), one of the world’s largest data center operators and a leading REIT. Prior to DLR, Jarrett had several leadership roles with Coresite Realty Corporation (COO), Equinix (CMO) and with Reliance Communications (Flag Telecom), where he was the CMO and head of strategy. Jarrett’s roles also included executive leadership positions at MCI Communications, Qwest Communications and at AT&T.
Currently, Jarrett is Advisor to the Blackstone Group, where he evaluates investments in global infrastructure in the data center platform and fiber space and in the emerging edge services ecosystem. As founder and CEO of ASG, Jarrett brings a unique depth of industry expertise for his clients, drawn from 30 years of telecommunications and data center leadership. With The ASG-Team, clients can expect advisory with an industry-leading cut on the direction that the digital infrastructure and intelligent edge development segments are taking, along with recommended countermeasures. Jarrett’s C-level clients will benefit from his role as an independent Board Member at Unitas Global and at Sungard Availability services, as well as his advisory role in several other leading-edge enterprises.
Mr. Appleby received a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Economics and MBA from Lehigh University.
Dan Golding - Chief Technology Officer and ASG Partner
Machine Cognition Advisors, LLC
Dan Golding is one the world's leading experts at data center and network engineering, business development, and operations. He has a 30 year career focused on building Internet, Cloud, and AI/ML infrastructure for enterprises, colocation providers, hyperscale clouds, and the emerging AI ecosystem. Dan recently left a long career at Google where he was the only Google Engineering Director to be a part of both the Google Global Networking and Google Data Centers Advanced Technology Innovation teams. He's been a technical lead on the design, engineering and build teams responsible for over $25b of datacenters - thousands of megawatts. He's also a leader in data center leasing, having negotiated, sold, performed due diligence, or signed over $600m of wholesale data center lease deals.
Prior to joining ASG, Dan was the Director of Global Network Delivery Engineering at Google. Before Google, he was the VP of Operations and Engineering at Iron Mountain Data Centers, and before that RagingWire Data Centers, now NTT Data Centers. Dan was the sector's leading industry analyst and investment banker at Gartner for Technical Professionals, Tier 1 Research (451 Group) and DH Capital. Dan was one of the earliest engineering leaders at groundbreaking Internet service providers like AOL, Mindspring, and Earthlink. Dan is the former Chairman of NANOG and former vice-Chairman and co-founder of Open-IX. He is frequently credited as the co-founder of Northern Virginia's Data Center Alley in Ashburn.
Dan's three most significant innovations have been the popularization of the now dominant Donut model of Internet interconnection which supplanted the former Tier-n model of interconnect; the most historically advantageous Ashburn, VA data center land deal, NTT's 100 acre campus in the middle of Ashburn for $20m in 2012 - land with an objective value of $500m; and the development of engineering continuous improvement techniques to vastly accelerate deployments in hyperscale data centers by factors of 5x or more.
Dan has a Bachelor of Engineering Degree from Auburn University, and a Master of Science Degree in Telecommunications Engineering from George Mason University. He is a graduate of the US Navy's Nuclear Power School.
Paul Hopkins - Chief Revenue Officer and ASG Partner
OLH Ventures, LLC
Our Chief Revenue Officer, Paul Hopkins, has over two decades of experience building & leading world-class sales teams in the digital infrastructure industry. Hopkins spent the last 12 years in sales leadership roles in the burgeoning hyperscale data center industry with several leading international firms including Digital Realty (DFT), COLT and CloudHQ. During that time, he was responsible for executing several billion $ in lease value with global tech powers including, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Apple.
Paul graduated from St. Mary’s College and has MBAs from UC Berkeley and Columbia University. He is on the board of the Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo.
Hopkins resides with his wife, two girls, dog, and leopard gecko in Palo Alto, CA.
Scott Jones - Director, Market and Business Development
Scott brings a decade of experience in professional advocacy, helping to navigate complex market landscapes and manage strategic partnerships to drive growth. As Director of Market and Business Development, Scott is responsible for growing ASG Team’s market portfolio to ensure our clients capitalize on their digital infrastructure investments. Additionally, he works with our CEO to continue building our industry leading go-to-market strategy.
Scott graduated from James Madison University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and lives in Loudoun County, VA with his wife and two children.
Roman Pacewicz - ASG Partner
Pace Strategy Group, LLC
Roman Pacewicz has over 30 years of experience in telecom and data center industries. He is the former Chief Product Officer at AT&T where he was responsible for a portfolio of over 300 products across mobility, IoT, data networking, and computing. These products generated over $36B of annual revenue from more than 3 million business customers across the globe. In 2018, he was instrumental in the divestiture of AT&T’s colocation business to Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (Evoque DCS). Over his career he held various senior executive positions including Senior Vice President of Marketing & Advertising, Senior Vice President of Global Strategy and Senior Vice President of Product Management.
Since his retirement from AT&T on January 1st, 2021, Roman has helped innovative companies execute on opportunities in the networking, computing, and security markets. For the past year, he has focused on developing energy efficient data centers optimized for HPC and AI workloads. Roman is currently engaged in over 1.5 GW of data center capacity across the United States. He is a board member of Lokker and Cybraics, and an advisor to AT&T, Drivenets, SpinLaunch, and Monogato.
Mr. Pacewicz holds a degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Rutgers and a MBA from Wharton School Of Business, University of Pennsylvania.
Robert Bath - ASG Partner
Found Digital, LLC
Robert Bath is currently the Director of FoundDigital DS Limited and FoundDigital LLC (collectively FoundDigital), comprising global investment and advisory practices specialising in Energy, Cloud and Internet infrastructures. FoundDigital currently leads over 15 GW of power and energy infrastructure solutions across its international base with an additional 5GW of solutioning within the domestic US (20 GW total). In the allied disciplines, the combined businesses have supported over 24,000 km of fiber optic infrastructure build-out and over 1.8 GW (IT) of data centre build strategy across the globe.
Mr. Bath formerly served as Vice President, Global Solutions at Digital Realty from 2011 to July 2016 together with having previously led teams across Engineering, Energy and Networks for the business. Prior to Digital Realty, he was heavily involved, as a consultant, in the strategic and evolutionary planning of Global Data Centre Operator, Mobile Network Operator and Tier I Internet Service Provider platforms. Mr. Bath received his degree in Electrical Power Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand and is a Chartered Engineer with the United Kingdom Engineering Council.