Title : Chief Executive Officer

Location : Atlanta Industry : Information Technology & Services

Jeff Uphues has been the CEO at DC BLOX since 2017 . He is responsible for setting and leading the company ’ s strategy in building and operating a fabric of edge connected , cloud enabled data centres and driving the growth and profitability of best-in-class infrastructure for digital services . “ My background has primarily been in the communications sector , both from a cloud , data centre and communications perspective ,” says Uphues . “ I ’ ve got around 30 years ’ experience of increasing responsibility across various areas of the communications sector from fiber to network services to cloud-based hosting services to data centres . It feels like I ’ ve come full circle .”

Uphues previously served as Executive Vice President for Liquid Web , a global managed hosting and data centre operator that serves over 30,000 customers in over 150 countries . Having been in the communications industry for almost 30 years , he is a tireless tech-savvy executive and business strategist , having held several C-suite leadership positions in sales , marketing and operations for Cbeyond , Bandwidth , ACSI Network Technologies and MCI . He serves as an active board member at several technology firms and has also co-chaired the SE New Venture Competition for Harvard Business School to select the regions ’ best start-up ventures . Uphues graduated from the Harvard Business School , Rice University ’ s Jones School of Business Executive Education program in Finance and Accounting and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Arlington .

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Having initially joined DC BLOX in 2016 as an Advisory Board Member , Uphues stepped into his current role as CEO in March 2017 and he affirms that together with employees and investors “ we ’ ve built a really great company ” during his tenure . datacentremagazine . com