Peter D. Aquino
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Peter D. Aquino is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Internap Corporation (INAP). He is a veteran of the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) industries, with a track record of successfully guiding major expansion efforts, turnarounds and strategic partnerships and transactions at both public and private companies.
Prior to assuming his role at INAP, Mr. Aquino served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and later as Executive Chairman, of Primus Telecommunications Group, Inc. from 2010 until 2013. Under his leadership, PTGi grew into an integrated telecommunications company serving consumer and business customers with voice, data, high-capacity fiber and data center services globally. Prior to this, he was the President and Chief Executive Officer of RCN Corporation from 2004 until 2010, where he built the company into an all-digital HDTV cable multiple system operator and created an advanced fiber-based commercial network through organic and acquisition strategies.
He is also the founder of Broad Valley Capital, LLC, where he provided consulting services and capital to improve companies’ business operations, productivity and asset value. He began his career at Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) in 1983. Mr. Aquino currently serves on the board of directors of Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALSK) and recently served on the board of directors of Lumos Networks (Nasdaq: LMOS) and FairPoint Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: FRP), prior to both being sold in 2017.
Mr. Aquino holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Montclair State University and an MBA from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Michael T. Sicoli
President & CFO
Michael T. Sicoli leads INAP’s finance and accounting, corporate development, investor relations, information technology and real estate functions.
Prior to joining INAP, Mr. Sicoli served as Chief Financial Officer of GTT Communications Inc., a publicly-traded provider of cloud networking services to multinational clients. From 2013 to 2015, he served as principal of MTS Advisors, LLC, a consulting and advisory services firm he founded. From 2010 to 2013, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Sidera Networks, a fiber optic service provider that was merged with Lightower Fiber Networks in 2013. From 2005-2010, Mr. Sicoli served as Chief Financial Officer of RCN Corporation, where he reported to Peter Aquino, INAP’s current Chief Executive Officer. Previously, Mr. Sicoli held various positions at Nextel Communications, Deloitte Consulting and Accenture. Additionally, Mr. Sicoli recently served as a director of Lumos Networks, a fiber-based bandwidth infrastructure and service provider in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Mr. Sicoli holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from The College of William and Mary and an MBA from The University of Virginia, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.
Andrew Day
Chief Operating Officer
Andrew Day leads INAP's global operations, including sales, marketing and operations for Colo, Cloud and Network product lines. He brings to INAP over 25 years of management experience in telecommunications, technology innovation, sales and marketing leadership.
Prior to joining INAP, Mr. Day held several senior leadership positions in sales and general management for technology companies. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President, Consumer Channels at Rogers Communications, where he led all consumer product sales across all sales channels.
Previously, Mr. Day was CEO Primus Telecommunications Group Inc. and Primus Canada, where he was responsible for the company’s direction and results. Before joining Primus, he held various roles of increasing responsibility in general management, sales, product management, and finance at AT&T, Gillette and Xerox.
Mr. Day holds an Honours B. Comm. from McMaster University, is a Chartered Public Accountant (CPA) and is also a Chartered Director (C. Dir.).
Richard P. Diegnan
EVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Richard Diegnan leads INAP’s legal, regulatory and compliance functions. Mr. Diegnan has over 20 years of experience as an attorney representing a diverse group of clients including both private and public companies.
Prior to joining INAP, Mr. Diegnan was a partner at Diegnan & Brophy, LLC where his practice was concentrated in corporate counseling, mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, real estate and commercial dispute resolution. He served as General Counsel and Chief Financial Officer to Travel Tripper LLC, a hotel web technology company and served as General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer to Broad Valley Micro Fiber Networks Inc., a fiber and wireless infrastructure services provider.
Mr. Diegnan was also a corporate attorney at McCarter & English, LLP and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in New York City.
Mr. Diegnan holds a J.D. from the Seton Hall University School of Law, an M.B.A from Fairleigh Dickenson University and a B.S. from Providence College. Mr. Diegnan is licensed to practice law in New York and New Jersey.
John D. Filipowicz
Chief Administrative Officer | Chief Governance, Risk & Compliance Officer
John Filipowicz leads INAP’s Human Resources function. Mr. Filipowicz has over 20 years of human resources, legal and operations experience in the telecom industry.
Prior to joining INAP, Mr. Filipowicz was the Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Primus Telecommunications Group, Incorporated. Also he served as the President of Residential Markets, Chief Administrative Officer and Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel to RCN Corporation.
Mr. Filipowicz holds a J.D. from Western Michigan University and a B.A. from St. Lawrence University.
TJ Waldorf
Chief Marketing Officer, Head of Inside Sales & Customer Success
TJ Waldorf leads INAP’s global marketing, customer success and inside sales organizations as Chief Marketing Officer. Prior to this role, he served as Vice President of Global Marketing at INAP and Vice President of Inside Sales and Marketing at SingleHop, which was acquired by INAP in 2018.
Mr. Waldorf's previous experience encompasses a broad spectrum of marketing, sales, operations and business management positions, including management roles at Phoenix NAP and Secured Servers. There, he led initiatives to increase global market share across several data centers with a broad IaaS portfolio of dedicated and virtual servers, colocation, private and hybrid cloud.
Mr. Waldorf earned his Bachelors of Business of Science in Business Marketing and MBA from the University of Phoenix.
Jennifer Curry
Senior Vice President, Global Cloud Services
Jennifer Curry leads INAP’s global cloud services group. She is responsible for the architecture, infrastructure engineering and technical support of the company’s cloud and hosting solutions, including bare metal, private cloud, managed hosting, third-party managed cloud and business continuity.
A tech thought leader committed to INAP’s mission of empowering IT transformations, Ms. Curry has 18 years of experience in the industry, with eight years leading teams in the hosting and cloud space. She most recently served as INAP’s vice president of hosting and managed services.
Prior to INAP, Ms. Curry held several senior positions in the data center and telecommunications industries. She served as vice president of cloud at Zayo Group, vice president of systems engineering, implementations and IT at Latisys, and senior manager of software at Level 3 communications.
Ms. Curry holds a Bachelor’s of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame.
Mike Higgins
Senior Vice President, Data Center Services
Mike Higgins is responsible for driving INAP’s top-line growth through asset management of the company’s data center portfolio. Mr. Higgins leads INAP’s data center services unit, colocation product and sales support, data center capacity planning and design engineering. He also oversees the data center operations teams responsible for 24/7/365 uptime across INAP’s flagship data centers. He is a seasoned executive with extensive business development, financial analysis, product management and leadership experience in the data center and telecommunications industries.
Mr. Higgins most recently served as INAP’s senior vice president of sales for the East region, Inside Sales, and the Channel. Additionally, he led the solution engineering team responsible for creating technical customer environments that best utilized INAP’s portfolio of assets. Lastly, he was responsible for INAP’s data center migration strategy, which leveraged INAP’s existing flagship data centers and improved EBITDA margins.
Previously, he held the position of senior vice president of business development, where he drove technical customer solutions and customer retention strategies. In addition, Mr. Higgins also served as INAP’s senior vice president of data center services and was responsible for colocation product management and data center design and engineering. In this role, he led the data center expansion strategy which doubled the size of INAP’s data center footprint across the nation. He joined INAP in January 2004 as vice president of financial planning and analysis.
Prior to INAP, Mr. Higgins held numerous leadership roles in business operations, business development and finance over an 18-year career span at Verizon, last serving as vice president of business operations.
Mr. Higgins holds a B.S. in Accounting from Villanova University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Bridgeport.
Joe DuFresne
Senior Vice President, Finance, Corporate Development & Treasury
Joe DuFresne leads the strategic and financial analyses and execution of inorganic activities including merger and acquisitions, joint-ventures, strategic partnerships, divestitures and other business combinations across INAP’s global footprint. Mr. DuFresne is an experienced corporate finance practitioner with more than 25 years of operating company and investment banking experience.
Prior to INAP, Mr. DuFresne was the CEO and CFO at Broad Valley Micro Fiber Networks, a fiber and wireless infrastructure provider serving the Mid-Atlantic. Mr. DuFresne also spent more than a decade in investment banking where he focused on the telecommunications sector with a focus on infrastructure businesses, including metro fiber and data center-related businesses. Over the course of his banking career, Mr. DuFresne executed a broad array of debt and equity financings and buy and sell-side M&A transactions in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Mr. DuFresne was a member of the media and telecom investment banking groups at UBS and Oppenheimer & Co. and began his banking career in the telecom group at Deutsche Bank Securities.
Mr. DuFresne started his career at UOP, a process technology licensor for the petrochemical and oil and gas industries. While at this company, he lived and worked outside the U.S., including time in Europe, Russia, Asia, South America and Africa in various roles from technical service to project sales.
Mr. DuFresne holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from Montana State University.
Roberto Montesi
Vice President of International Sales
Roberto Montesi leads INAP International, and is responsible for sales, facilities, support, provisioning and operations. He also oversees web and VPS hosting provider Funio, an INAP company.
Mr. Montesi brings 15 years of management and leadership experience in telecommunications, information technology, solution selling and customer support. Previously, Montesi held numerous sales and support positions at INAP and iWeb, an INAP company, including general manager of iWeb and senior director of sales. Prior to INAP and iWeb, Mr. Montesi led support teams at telecommunications companies Look Communications and Videotron, and oversaw call center builds for Optimal Service Group and Ingenico.
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