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The Engineer Who Keeps AI on a Short Leash
Anton Bubna-Litic spent years turning mathematical models into working systems. At NetBox Labs, he is applying the same practical instinct to AI agents - testing the fashionable future until it becomes useful infrastructure.
John Doyle Bet the Company on the Part of Your Phone You Never See
A Green Beret turned coder turned reluctant lawyer chose the hardest possible way to make a phone private: rebuild the cellular network beneath it.
Eric Chen Put a Computer in the Ceiling - Then Waited for the Edge to Catch Up
After two decades inside networking companies, Eric Chen founded Relay2 around a practical provocation: the Wi-Fi access point already hangs where data is born, so why should every useful computation make a round trip to the cloud?
Mo Katibeh’s Quiet Operating System for the Loud Business of Connection
He has built networks, products and marketing engines at telecom scale. His quieter advantage is an executive habit anyone can borrow: listen closely, think alone, then translate technology into a problem someone actually needs solved.
David Marks
David Marks is the founder, President, and CEO of TEECOM, a California-based technology design and engineering firm he built from a one-man operation into a 200+ person global consultancy over nearly three decades. Starting at the Moscone Convention Center expansion in San Francisco, he has since shaped the technology infrastructure of hospitals, Fortune 500 offices, universities, and civic institutions across the U.S., EMEA, and APAC. A licensed Professional Engineer with credentials in communications distribution, design technology, and LEED, Marks is known for his belief that buildings should work as hard as the people inside them - and that the best technology is the kind you never notice.
Steve Smith
Steve Smith is the Chief Executive Officer of Zayo Group, one of the world's largest independent fiber network and infrastructure companies. A West Point engineering graduate and former eight-year U.S. Army officer, Smith built his reputation scaling Equinix from a $2 billion company to a $34 billion global data center giant over 11 years as CEO. Appointed to lead Zayo in October 2020 after the company went private under EQT and Digital Colony, he is now steering the company through a massive AI-driven infrastructure buildout - securing over $1 billion in AI-related deals in 2024 alone, with a pipeline exceeding $3 billion. Under his leadership, Zayo operates 240,000+ route miles globally and 34 million fiber miles, serving customers across healthcare, finance, media, and enterprise sectors.