An Extension of Your Team

Grant van Rooyen is the CEO and founder of Tract Capital Management (TCM). He chairs the Executive, Management and Investment Committees and sits on the Valuation and Allocation Committees. He is also the Executive Chairman of TCM portfolio companies Tract and Fleet Data Centers. Grant is a 28 year veteran digital infrastructure operator and investor with a demonstrated track record of founding and scaling businesses to generate top decile returns.

Prior to Tract Capital, Grant acquired Teraco (South Africa) alongside a PE syndicate for ~$850M and later sold 51% of that business to Digital Realty for ~$3.5B. He also acquired 49% of MedOne (Israel) alongside a PE partner in a $450M transaction.

Grant founded Cologix in 2010 and built that business alongside 8 other members of the TCM team. Cologix was recapped twice, in 2017 at ~$1.4B and in 2022 at ~$4B. Grant also founded Communications Realty Investments which was sold as part of the Cologix transactions and was valued at ~$100M at the time of sale. Grant also founded the van Rooyen Group in 2010 to deploy his capital across a broad range of industries and geographies.

Grant began his digital infrastructure career at Level 3 Communications where he led various businesses over a span of 12 years as President of Content Markets. While at Level 3, he was intimately involved in the global core business initiatives that created the foundation for today’s worldwide digital environment, including the global fiber buildout, deployment of the global submarine cable network, development of the data center portfolio and establishment of the IP backbone which grew to become the worlds largest by traffic. He was also deeply involved in the consolidation Level 3 led, completing 32 acquisitions during his tenure.

He is President of the van Rooyen Family Foundation which does charitable work globally. Born in South Africa and raised in South Africa and Australia, he has lived and worked around the world. Grant has a degree in economics and finance. 

Chris Vonderhaar is President of Fleet and Senior Managing Director, Tract Capital. Prior to Fleet, Chris was VP, Demand and Supply Management for Google Cloud. He was responsible for Google’s Technical Infrastructure and Cloud capacity planning and fulfillment, including server supply chain and procurement, server operations in the data center, and supply chain operating system development. From 2010-2023, Chris was VP, AWS Global Data Centers. He was responsible for data center forecasting, planning, design, engineering, construction, operations, and community engagement, as well as procuring and managing all of AWS’ real estate, colocation, and utility assets (energy, water, renewables). Chris was also with Level 3 Communications (now Lumen) for 10 years during the build-out of its global internet backbone and metro networks, and as an operations leader serving transport, colocation, internet access, and content distribution network customers.

Mislav Crnogorac is Vice President of Data Center Engineering at Fleet Data Centers, leading all of Fleet’s design and engineering efforts including Fleet’s proprietary data design.

Prior to joining Fleet, Mislav spent 5 years at Amazon Web Services where he was responsible for the Innovations Program Portfolio, a $7B line of business encompassing over 80 programs for Amazon Data Center Engineering. Prior to AWS, Mislav spent 3 years at Vertiv where he was Vice President of Engineering, responsible for all engineering services during design, manufacturing, construction, and commissioning on 80+ data center projects, overseeing an annual engineering services budget of $30M.  Earlier in his career, Mislav spent 8 years at Emerson Network Power where he was Director of Engineering, focusing on data centers and cable landing stations.  

Wayne Dietrich is Executive Vice President, Enterprise for Fleet. Wayne brings more than two decades of experience building and scaling infrastructure-centric and technology-enabled businesses. He has held senior executive roles such as COO and CRO, with accountability for enterprise strategy, commercial execution, partnerships, operations, rapid growth phases, market expansion, and complex capital structures while collaborating with private equity sponsors, boards, and management teams. Wayne holds a Bachelor of Science in Radiation Physics from Bloomsburg University and a Master of Science in Telecommunications for the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Anthony Lombardo is Executive Vice President of Development at Fleet Data Centers and a Principal on Tract Capital’s Investments & Strategy team. He leads data center and energy project development, taking projects from raw land through site control, construction, financing, stabilization, and exit, with responsibility for the asset-level decisions that shape project value and investment outcomes. His work spans site selection, master planning, entitlements and permitting, community engagement, power, utilities, fiber, pre-construction, and debt financing. Previously, Anthony served as Fleet Data Centers’ first in-house attorney and began his legal career in private practice, most recently as an associate in the real estate group at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

Shalini Sharma is General Counsel of Fleet Data Centers. She has deep expertise and experience in digital transformation, data privacy and cyber security, and data center development and management. She is an expert in global transactional strategies, corporate governance and compliance and is also an accomplished strategic leader with more than 25 years of experience advising both public and private companies through high growth and expansion. Most recently, she played a critical role as Chief Legal Officer of Ping Identity (formerly NYSE: PING), a leading digital identity solutions platform, in a take private transaction and guiding the company through dynamic growth and transformation. She joined Ping from Vantage Data Centers, a world-class provider of data center campuses for hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprise. As the company’s first General Counsel, Shalini developed and oversaw legal, corporate governance, risk and compliance functions in support of the company’s strategic opportunities during a period of expansive international growth. Prior to joining Vantage, she spent more than fifteen years at Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader with more than $6B in revenues, where she was the Chief Privacy Officer of the company. During her time at Broadridge, she played a key role in establishing the legal department for Broadridge as a stand-alone public company after its spin-off from Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NYSE: ADP) and led significant strategic M&A transactions. Shalini was previously in private practice as a corporate transactional attorney in the New York office of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP where she worked on cross-border and domestic M&A, financings and securities transactions. Shalini is a founding member of the General Counsel Mentorship Program in Colorado, a member and former board member of the Association of Corporate Counsel Colorado, a member of the Senior Women’s Corporate Counsel group of Colorado and takes a special interest in mentorship and sponsorship. She is also a women’s health advocate and advisor. Shalini received a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law, earned a Master of Arts in social sciences and a Bachelor of Arts in Latin American studies, both from the University of Chicago and is also the recipient of a Fulbright award.

Karen Simao is the Executive Vice President of Commercial Management at Fleet Data Centers. She leverages her expertise from past roles as an attorney and her tenure at Digital Realty in hyperscale development and leasing to drive strategic growth. With a strong background in commercial real estate, contract negotiation, and corporate strategy, she adeptly aligns legal and business objectives to achieve organizational success.

Eric Wilcox is the Executive Vice President of Data Center Design, Construction, and Operations. Eric has been in the data center and IT industry for 29 years with an engineering focus on data center infrastructure and enterprise IT power and cooling. He has worked at EMC, Dell, Vertiv, and most recently led the Data Center Engineering global organization for AWS for the past 6+ years. His expertise spans all data center disciplines, including civil, structural, electrical, mechanical, cooling, controls, fire systems, acoustics, and both embedded and in-rack power. Eric has focused primarily on engineering execution but has also engaged directly with customers, collaborating on technical solutions.

Roy Zeighami is the Executive Vice President of Customer Engineering. He and his team drive technical engagements with customers across the full lifecycle: from deal pursuit to cementing requirements/change management to technical escalations. Roy has a broad spectrum of development experience in hardware, data centers and software at both hyperscale server providers (Oracle/OCI and Microsoft) and traditional hardware development companies (Hewlett Packard and Cisco).