Leadership

Paul Szurek

President & CEO

Paul E. Szurek has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since September 2016 and as a CoreSite director since September 2010. Prior to joining CoreSite as President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Szurek served as Chief Financial Officer of Biltmore Farms, LLC, a developer and operator of mixed-use master planned communities, from 2003 to September 2016. Mr. Szurek has previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Security Capital Group Incorporated, a publicly traded real estate investment, development and operating company with extensive REIT engagement, as a director of the Charlotte, North Carolina branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and as a director of two publicly traded real estate companies, Regency Centers and Security Capital U.S Realty. Mr. Szurek received a J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in Government, magna cum laude, from the University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Szurek currently serves as a director of Four Corners Property Trust, a REIT focused on restaurant real estate.

Jeff Finnin

CFO

Jeff Finnin is CoreSite's Chief Financial Officer. Jeff brings more than 25 years of experience to CoreSite and is responsible for the company's accounting and financial activities.

Prior to joining CoreSite in 2011, Jeff spent five years with Prologis, where as Managing Director and Chief Accounting Officer, he was responsible for overall corporate policies on accounting and finance. Additionally, Jeff was directly involved with Prologis acquisitions, dispositions and capital market transactions. Jeff has also served as a Partner with KPMG and Arthur Andersen, where he was Industry Lead Partner for the Financial Services and Real Estate practices in Denver. In these roles, he gained extensive experience with SEC regulations, acquisitions, stock mergers, roll-up transactions, divestitures, public offerings and spin-offs.

Jeff received his B.S. in Business Administration from Colorado State University.

Steven Smith

CRO

Steven Smith is CoreSite's Chief Revenue Officer. He is accountable for driving the integration and alignment between all revenue-related functions within the customer revenue journey, to include market definition, demand creation, solution definition, and ultimately customer adoption of CoreSite offerings. Functional areas of responsibility include marketing, sales, sales engineering, sales operations/enablement and business development. Steve joined CoreSite in 2014, and most recently served as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and brings over 15 years of direct and indirect sales and sales operations experience from both the software and communications industry. Prior to joining CoreSite, Steve held leadership positions with SAP covering large enterprise, mid-market, and channel sales. He also held increasing roles of responsibility while at Avaya including leading enterprise channels sales for the US. His experience while at QCS as a founder and ultimately leading sales for hosting and enterprise application support, combined with prior experience in direct and indirect sales leadership roles with a global network provider, also contribute to his well-rounded knowledge of the industry. Steve received a BA in Business Marketing and Economics from the University of New Mexico.

Juan Font

SVP, General Management

Juan Font is CoreSite’s Senior Vice President, General Management. He is responsible for driving major improvements across the general management function, improving the development and operations strategy of our growing data center portfolio, and helping to improve revenue growth and the return on invested capital of our data centers. Juan joined CoreSite in 2010 and brings more than 15 years of experience in direct sales and business operations and finance in the data center and telecommunications industries.  Prior to joining CoreSite, Juan held direct sales contributor roles with Equinix, covering strategic verticals. He also held roles of increasing responsibility with Teleglobe in financial management and business operations across European markets and increased his understanding of capital-intensive industries at The World Bank Group, where he oversaw investments in the power sector. Juan received a M.B.A. from The Kogod School of Business at The American University and a B.A. in Business Economics and Finance from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid.

Anthony Hatzenbuehler

SVP, Data Center Operations

 

Anthony Hatzenbuehler is CoreSite’s Senior Vice President of Data Center Operations.  He is responsible for CoreSite’s on site data center operations activities, client services, and the Operations Support Center (OSC).  
 
He joined CoreSite in 2009 and brings 10 years of data center industry experience and more than 20 years of experience working with “mission critical” infrastructure.  Prior to joining CoreSite, Anthony held roles of increasing responsibility at Switch and Data and spent 9 years in the U.S. Navy where he was trained in power production and electricity, as well as nuclear power.
 
Anthony received a B.S. in Business Management, summa cum laude, from Liberty University.

Maile Kaiser

SVP, Sales

Maile Kaiser is CoreSite’s Senior Vice President of Sales. She is responsible for overseeing revenue growth, managing daily operations for CoreSite’s national sales organization and contributing to strategic planning.  Maile joined CoreSite in 2012 and prior to this role was the Vice President of Sales for the Southwest and Central Regions as well as Strategic Content Accounts. Maile brings over 20 years of direct sales and management experience in the datacenter, network communications, software and managed services industries driving growth and innovation for large enterprises. Prior to joining CoreSite, Maile was responsible for wholesale and large enterprise sales at IO Datacenters (now Iron Mountain) and ran the Southwest region for Abovenet Communications (now Zayo). Maile started her career with Oracle Corporation. Maile received a BA in English Literature from the University of California, at Berkeley.

Derek McCandless

SVP, Legal, General Counsel and Secretary

Derek McCandless is Senior Vice President of Legal and General Counsel for CoreSite. He is responsible for the company's legal activities.

Prior to joining CoreSite in 2011, Derek served as Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of Apartment Investment and Management Company ("Aimco") (NYSE: AIV), which he joined in 2003. Before his tenure with Aimco, Derek was in private practice with the law firms of Holme Roberts & Owen LLP and Cooley LLP. He is admitted to practice law in California and Colorado.

Derek received his J.D. from The University of Chicago Law School and his B.S., cum laude, from Brigham Young University.

Brian Warren

SVP, Engineering & Product

Brian Warren is CoreSite's Senior Vice President of Engineering and Product. Brian joined CoreSite in 2011 and brings 15 plus years of product management, strategy and marketing experience in the communications industry. Prior to joining CoreSite, Brian held leadership positions with Level 3 Communications’ covering Internet and peering, offer management and corporate strategy. Brian’s experience includes roles of increasing responsibility at both incumbent and competitive communications companies as well as strategy consulting across the industry. Brian started his career as a United States Air Force officer working with NORAD on National Missile Defense programs. Brian received a M.B.A. from Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern and B.S. in Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy.

Geoff Danheiser

VP, Human Resources

Geoff Danheiser is CoreSite’s Vice President of Human Resources.  He brings over 20 years of experience in human resources and his primary responsibility is to drive the company’s people strategy by overseeing culture and engagement, recruiting, talent management, total rewards, and learning & development. 
 
Prior to joining CoreSite in 2013, Geoff served as the Global Employee Engagement & Retention Leader for Orica, a $5.1B AUD, Australian based leader of explosives for the mining industry.  Additionally, Geoff served as the Vice President of Operations for Tower One Construction where he was responsible for overseeing the strategic direction, operations, HR, marketing, and IT for the company.  He has also held various HR positions with increasing levels of responsibility with Avis Budget Group.
 
Geoff received a M.B.A. from the University of Colorado Denver as well as a B.S. in Business Administration and a B.A. in Spanish from the University of North Texas.

Aleks Krusko

VP, IT and Digitization

Aleks Krusko is the Vice President of Information Technology and Digitization at CoreSite. She is responsible for the execution of CoreSite’s digital strategies through technology, automation and business transformation. She leads the IT Solutions Delivery and IT Operations teams, including: software development, system support, information security and business intelligence.

Aleks joined CoreSite in 2008. Before her current role, Aleks spearheaded the delivery of system and process efficiencies, change management and architected cross-functional solutions across the organization. Prior to joining CoreSite, Aleks held various roles of increasing responsibility in the Real Estate industry.

She earned a B.S. in Chemistry, with honors, from Regis University.