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.

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.

Steven Smith

SVP, Sales & Marketing

Steven Smith is CoreSite's Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. He is responsible for the success of CoreSite's customer engagement, market expansion, and overall revenue growth. Steve joined CoreSite in 2014 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 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.

Dominic Tobin

SVP, Field Operations and Network Engineering

Dominic Tobin is CoreSite's Senior Vice President of Field Operations and Network Engineering. He is responsible for CoreSite's operations activities, including CoreSite's Any2Exchange® for Internet peering.

Prior to joining CoreSite, Dominic spent 15 combined years at First Level Technology and AT&T, where he held roles of increasing responsibility, including Field Operations Director and District Manager.

Dominic obtained his B.S. degree in Telecommunications Management, magna cum laude, from Golden Gate University. He also received a Network Management Certificate from U.C. Santa Cruz Extension and was a First Class Electronics Technician in the U.S. Coast Guard.

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.

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.