Mike Coleman

An accomplished, forward-thinking, data center executive, Michael Coleman has over 20 years of expertise leading high-impacting data center operations across industry leaders such as Google, Yahoo!, and other Wholesale providers. Michael joined ImpactData in April 2021 as the Company’s CTO. In his role as ImpactData’s Chief Technology Officer, Michael guides the direction for development, implementation and management of the company’s overall technology strategies. Prior to this role, Michael served as Head of Global Data Center Operations at Google, where he directed day-to-day operations across all of the company’s state-of-the-art data center campuses, as well as edge sites and Points of Presence (PoPs). During his tenure at Google, Michael effectively realigned a 15-year organizational structure to prepare for expediential growth over a two-year span. Before Google, Michael was the Vice President, Global Data Center Construction and Operations at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for managing and supervising data center engineering and delivery teams in the execution of global data center strategies, including the development and construction of cutting-edge data centers. Michael’s earlier career encompassed serving as Operations Manager, Data Center Division at CEI, Group President – NW Region at SASCO, and Group / Critical Infrastructure Project Executive at Cochran, Inc.