Meet our advisors.

Chris Cavazzini

Managing Director, Clover Communications Management

Chris brings two decades in the telecommunications and IT industry across sales and management. As Managing Director of Clover Communications Management, he leads a firm serving enterprise businesses globally with best-of-breed products, managed services, and security solutions for multi-location enterprises — and is frequently cited by journalists as an industry expert.

• Connectivity / Networking
• Managed IT Services
• Cybersecurity
• Sales & GTM

Darren Light

Technology Advisor

North Palm Beach, Florida

Darren is a seasoned technology advisor with 30+ years of experience across IT consulting, cybersecurity, telecommunications, and business continuity. Through Coastal Technologies, he helps organizations modernize their connectivity and protect their operations, with specialized expertise in 5G and fixed-wireless solutions.

• Cybersecurity
• Connectivity / Networking
• Managed IT Services

Jim Smith

Technology Advisor

NY Metro

Jim has an extensive background in sales and sales management working with both early-stage and established companies in cybersecurity, data, HR technology and telecom. Jim now works with Mission Security, a cybersecurity advisory, Blujin, an HR technology solutions provider, and Galway Technologies (which he founded), which aligns solution providers with forward-thinking enterprises.

• Cybersecurity
• Sales & GTM
• Data & Analytics
• Connectivity / Networking

Jim Toscano

Technology Advisor

Ridgewood, New Jersey

Jim brings more than 25 years of experience building and leading teams across a broad range of aligned technology solution areas, including Core, Enterprise, and Data Center Networking. This expertise, coupled with more recent experience helping customers solve critical infrastructure challenges associated with optimizing cybersecurity and cloud services platforms, provides an essential underpinning for delivering our world-class advisory services. Jim brings his passion for customer advocacy, exceeding outcome expectations, and delivering compelling business value to every engagement. Colleagues and clients describe him as an outstanding leader and mentor who pairs strategic insight with services-led solutions delivery guidance for the teams and clients he works with.

• Sales & GTM
• Cybersecurity
• Connectivity / Networking
• Leadership / Strategy
• Data Center & Cloud

Joeval Martins

Technology Advisor

Brazil

Joeval is an enterprise sales and go-to-market leader with 20+ years turning market potential into revenue across Latin America. He specializes in Data, AI, Analytics, and Cloud platforms — architecting the full commercial engine of direct enterprise sales, channel ecosystems, and C-level relationships across 10+ LATAM markets. Based in Brazil; fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and English.

• Sales & GTM
• Data & Analytics
• AI & Automation
• Cloud & Infrastructure

Kathy Sobus

Technology Advisor — Customer Experience

Wilmington, Delaware

Kathy is a customer-experience strategist and founder of Sobus Consulting, with a career spanning AT&T, Lucent, and Avaya and multiple patents in contact-center optimization. She helps organizations solve the alignment problems behind CX — connecting strategy, contact-center operations, and AI to lift both customer satisfaction and business results.

• Customer Experience
• Contact Center / CCaaS
• AI & Automation
• Sales & GTM

Kevin Sides

Technology Advisor

Frisco, Texas

Kevin is a management and sales leader with deep experience building and leading high-performing teams, currently at General Datatech (GDT). His recent focus spans data-center infrastructure and AI deployment, backed by formal training in consultative and strategic selling (Challenger, Miller-Heiman).

• Sales & GTM
• Data Center
• Cloud & Infrastructure
• Leadership / Strategy

Lou Casari

Technology Advisor

Lou is a strategic advisor and fractional President/COO for high-growth FinTechs, family offices, and financial-services firms. He drives scalable growth through growth-capital strategy, M&A, digital and AI transformation, and operational excellence — bringing deep financial-services roots, large-scale B2B pipeline experience, and an owner's mindset to every engagement.

• Finance / CFO
• Leadership / Strategy
• Sales & GTM
• Operations

Peter Namauleg

Technology Advisor

San Francisco Bay Area

Peter is a Bay Area technology advisor with over two decades of cybersecurity sales leadership at some of the industry's most respected security firms — including Check Point, Optiv, Accuvant, and NCC Group. He helps businesses cut through technology complexity to reduce waste, scale faster, and strengthen their security posture across cloud, data, and automation — pairing deep security expertise with a solution-selling approach.

• Cybersecurity
• Sales & GTM
• Cloud & Infrastructure
• Leadership / Strategy

Terry Van Roekel

Technology Advisor

Denver Metropolitan Area

Terry is a seasoned sales leader with 20+ years of experience, currently at Open Controls, focused on next-generation data-center infrastructure — modular design, high-density computing, AI deployment, and liquid cooling. He helps clients navigate the fast-moving infrastructure and energy technologies shaping AI-era compute.

• Sales & GTM
• Data Center
• Cloud & Infrastructure

• Data Center Development
• Infrastructure Strategy
• Design & Construction
• Project Finance
• Power & Site Strategy
• Risk Mitigation
• Investment Readiness
• Legal & Regulatory
• Sustainable Technology