John Giaquinta

John Giaquinta has more than 30 years of telecommunications experience as a senior executive in operations and sales organizations, supporting several Fortune 500 companies. A data center expert, John brings a unique, and very vital, perspective to the UPSTACK advisory team.

John began his career at Sprint in the early 1980s. Later, he was Vice President of Sales Metropolitan Fiber Systems, Vice President of Operations and Network Deployment at BroadStream Communications, Executive staff member of Operations at WingCast (a joint venture between Qualcomm and Ford Motor Company), and then Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the largest San Diego data center. Noting the disadvantages of high space costs and rising electrical power costs for colocation clients in California, John decided to provide a cost-effective alternative.

In 2009, he started DataCenterAndColocation.com, one of the largest U.S. data center and colocation consultancies. DataCenterAndColocation.com’s goal was to better serve businesses with multi-vendor data center requirements across locations in multiple states or countries.