Operators who know how to build the underlying system.

Yasser Elgebaly is Chairman and Acting CEO of Sovren Technologies. A cloud architect and infrastructure expert with more than 12 years of experience building resilient, scalable systems, he has launched eight startups across multiple industries. At Sovren he sets the company strategy and oversees the integration of ten products into a single sovereign ecosystem.

Anne Peterson serves as SVP Operations at Sovren Technologies. She oversees company-wide business operations with a focus on executing initiatives efficiently and enabling cross-functional collaboration at scale. Her work keeps the leadership bench, the product teams, and the infrastructure groups moving against the same roadmap.

Kyle McCarthy serves as SVP of User Experience at Sovren Technologies. A UX designer with deep expertise in crafting intuitive, user-focused interfaces, he leads experience strategy across every Sovren product surface. His work translates a sprawling multi-product ecosystem into experiences that feel cohesive, accessible, and engaging across devices.

Alex McCarthy serves as SVP of Product at Sovren Technologies. A product executive with a strong background in launching and scaling mobile and web applications across global markets, he leads product strategy across Parler, Play, Pay, Shop, Studio, and the broader Sovren stack. His work prioritizes shipping product surfaces that compound across the ecosystem.

James P. Stapleton serves as Chief Financial Officer at Sovren Technologies. Previously CFO at Mount Tam Biotechnologies and Ozone International, he has been a board member and audit committee chair at Summer Energy Holdings since 2012. He holds an MBA from UC Irvine and a BA in Economics from the University of Washington, and brings two decades of public and private company finance leadership to Sovren.

Nick Wilkens serves as Chief Technology Officer at Sovren Technologies. He is the founder of MNX Solutions, a public cloud services firm specializing in managed infrastructure, cybersecurity, and Triton-based platforms. At Sovren he oversees the technical direction of the full stack, from sovereign cloud and the blockchain network to the application layer that runs on top of it.

Jon Willis works alongside Sovren's CEO on corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, marketing, and business development. With more than 27 years of experience spanning family office, technology, media, and commercial real estate, he specializes in scaling businesses and executing strategic initiatives. He has helped guide growth across Parler, Play, Pay, Shop, Edgecast CDN, Triton Cloud, Blu, Studio, and The Core.

Elise Pierotti serves as Senior Vice President of Business Development at Sovren Technologies. With more than ten years of marketing and growth experience, she develops and implements the company's overall business development strategy. Her work focuses on partnerships, vertical expansion, and pipeline that compounds across the Sovren product portfolio.

Greg W. Anderson serves as SVP Product & Innovation at Sovren Technologies, focused on aligning revenue, strategy, and growth across Parler, Play, Pay, Shop, Studio, and the broader Sovren stack. He is also the founder and Interim CEO of Jedari, the white-labeled community platform that gives creators full ownership of their brand, audience, content, and monetization. His work centers on building sovereign ecosystems that put creators and communities in control.

Blaire Thomas has spent her career building brands and platforms that translate complicated ideas into movements people understand. A former Google sales leader, she works at the intersection of brand strategy, conversion-driven web design, emotional psychology, and AI, designing and shipping full products end-to-end for musicians, founders, and other high-profile clients. Her own creator brand has earned millions of views on Instagram. At Sovren Technologies she serves as Creative Director.

Leslie Westphal is a Marketing Strategist at Sovren Technologies and a builder of brands, relationships, and momentum. Drawing on extensive experience in marketing strategy, communications, SEO, business development, and project leadership, she helps the company tell its story, align teams, and execute with confidence. She balances big-picture strategy with hands-on execution across product and corporate marketing.

McKay Ferre is a UI and UX designer at Sovren Technologies with ten years of experience designing digital products, brand systems, and marketing assets. His work spans social media applications, blockchain and data-driven products, marketing websites, branding, and campaign materials. He specializes in thoughtful, user-centered experiences that combine strong visual design, clear usability, and practical business impact.

Daniel Yeung is Senior Manager of Data Center Operations at Sovren Technologies, with more than 15 years of experience across the tech and data center industries. A proven leader across server and networking hardware, facilities, and security, he keeps Sovren's points of presence running efficiently at scale.

Valdez Wilkerson is a results-driven IT leader at Sovren Technologies with more than a decade of experience delivering strategic technology solutions. As Managed Services Manager he helps the organization modernize infrastructure, optimize operations, and improve service delivery. He is known for translating complex technical challenges into practical solutions and leading high-performing teams that enhance performance, security, and scalability.

Cameron Dills has supported TechOps at Sovren Technologies for more than ten years, focused on supply chain and sourcing operations. His work keeps hardware, vendors, and procurement moving against the demands of a multi-product infrastructure company.

Brittany Cope is Operations Manager at Sovren Technologies. Originally from Chicago, she graduated from Northern Illinois University with a Business Management degree and began her career in a manager trainee program with a major paint retailer. She later helped open ten locations for a multimillion-dollar restaurant franchise and most recently managed a private members club for the Dallas Cowboys. She brings that operations bench to Sovren's growth.

Jadyn Kissner is an Account Manager at Sovren Technologies, with experience supporting customers, resolving issues, and providing exceptional service across a variety of platforms. She handles customer inquiries, troubleshoots account concerns, and builds positive customer relationships with professionalism, empathy, and clear communication.

Frank Contreras serves as Vice President of Software Engineering at Sovren Technologies. An engineering leader with more than 25 years of experience across software development, operations, and customer support disciplines, he oversees engineering execution across the platform. His work translates strategic direction into shipped code at scale.

Marcus Hildum serves as Vice President of Software Engineering at Sovren Technologies. A technologist with more than a decade of experience across hosting, CDN, and information security, he leads engineering teams responsible for production reliability and platform evolution. His focus sits at the intersection of performance, security, and scale.

Dennis Harrison is a senior software engineer and systems architect at Sovren Technologies with deep experience building enterprise-scale platforms and backend services for mission-critical environments. He works across Go, PostgreSQL, distributed systems, API design, transaction management, and performance optimization. His certifications span CEH, CCIE, MCSA, and RHCE, and he focuses on turning ambiguous technical problems into maintainable, reliable systems.

Sergio Ruiz is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Sovren Technologies with more than 36 years of experience building high-performance edge and distributed systems. For the last 15 years he has worked on the core data plane of the Edgecast CDN, through its evolution from Verizon to Yahoo to Edgio and now Sovren. His focus spans high-performance reverse proxy and caching systems across HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2, TLS, QUIC, and HTTP/3.

Marko Jennings has been in the industry for 35 years, with deep roots in Unix and Linux systems, networking, security, and enterprise infrastructure. He has held roles from hands-on engineering to Chief Engineer and Service Delivery Manager at organizations including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cognizant, and EDS. At Sovren he oversees the Triton Datacenter product engineering team and internal infrastructure operations.

Carlos Neira is a software engineer at Sovren Technologies with more than 20 years of experience. He spent 14 years at Experian working across mainframe and distributed platforms in C, C++, Java, Node.js, Clojure, Go, Common Lisp, and Python. Today he works on the Triton DataCenter platform, developing cloud infrastructure in Rust and Node.js. His interests include operating systems, virtualization, SmartOS, illumos, and building systems that hold up over time.

Brett Humphreys is a Senior Software Engineer and Frontend Lead at Sovren Technologies, specializing in intuitive, high-performance user interfaces for social media applications. A retired U.S. Army Major with more than 20 years of combined military and civilian experience, he brings a disciplined, mission-focused approach to frontend architecture. He leads design and implementation of key platform features in Vue.js, Flutter, React, and React Native.

Dan McDonald has been in the industry for more than 30 years and is the lead engineer for SmartOS at Sovren Technologies. He is a member of the illumos core team and serves as its point of contact for security and code of conduct. He has been working on SmartOS and Triton since 2017 and on illumos since 2011. Before that he was the IPsec lead and a TCP/IP contributor for Solaris at Sun Microsystems.

Travis Paul is a software engineer at Sovren Technologies with more than 15 years of experience building cloud infrastructure, identity systems, and security-focused production platforms. He currently works on Triton DataCenter, drawing on prior experience in Triton and SmartOS development, cloud operations, SRE leadership, and secure government identity systems. His background spans infrastructure automation, hypervisor tooling, web platforms, and production security work.

Ron Pruitt is a senior software engineer at Sovren Technologies with more than a decade of experience. His journey has taken him from QA to backend to full-stack development, and that range shapes how he builds: reliability behind the scenes, clarity for the people using it. He likes building software that makes complicated problems easier to understand, and he focuses on products that make a positive difference in the people who use them.

Mykola Mykhailenko is a software engineer at Sovren Technologies with about five years of experience, focused mainly on frontend. He builds mobile apps with React Native and web apps with React, Vue, and Angular, and contributes on the API side in Ruby, PHP, and Go. He designs clean code structures that help his team move fast and proposes solutions whenever he sees room to improve.

Jonathan Perkin is an Infrastructure Engineer at Sovren Technologies, working from London on the core operating system, cloud orchestration, and customer application software. His work supports the engineering teams shipping Triton DataCenter and the platforms that run on top of it.

Nathan Calvas is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Sovren Technologies with more than 15 years of experience across Linux, Windows, networking, security, and large-scale infrastructure. He leads the team responsible for the stability, performance, and optimization of production systems, with a particular focus on infrastructure-as-code tooling and automation that turns reactive firefighting into proactive, well-documented solutions. Previously he was Director of Cloud Operations at an MSP, overseeing all operations.

Brian Capoccia is a Senior Systems Engineer on the Cloud Operations team at Sovren Technologies, with more than 20 years leading infrastructure teams across virtualization, VDI, application delivery, storage systems, and Windows core services. He focuses on the platforms that keep the cloud running: Ansible-driven configuration management, ArgoCD-managed Kubernetes monitoring built on VictoriaMetrics and Grafana, and Terraform-defined cloud infrastructure across datacenters.

Ashot Malkhassian is a U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran and Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Sovren Technologies, with extensive experience in infrastructure engineering, systems architecture, cybersecurity, and enterprise operations. His expertise spans cloud and virtualization platforms, networking, security, business continuity, and operational scalability. His leadership approach is grounded in accountability, disciplined execution, and a focus on long-term sustainability.

Prateek Chanddra is a Senior Network Engineer at Sovren Technologies with experience in network infrastructure, security, cloud networking, and automation. He designs and operates enterprise and data center infrastructure, working across network architecture, cloud integration, monitoring, and infrastructure automation. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and focuses on networking, cloud technologies, and distributed systems.

Raymond W. Mintz is an Engineering Manager at Sovren Technologies, with 15 years deep in backend systems. He designs and builds software from first architecture through full implementation, mostly in Python, Go, and Bash on Linux. He came to engineering after two tours as a U.S. Army sergeant and combat engineer in Kosovo and Iraq, and that shapes how he works: calm under pressure, mission-first, focused on shipping things that hold up in the real world.

Fakhrul Babar is an Infrastructure Engineer at Sovren Technologies, delivering executive-level remote support that keeps technology experiences seamless and reliable for end users and leadership teams. His expertise spans endpoint management, patch management, MDR and EDR monitoring, and the deployment, configuration, and support of Windows, macOS, Linux, and Kubernetes environments. His focus is secure, scalable, high-performing infrastructure with proactive operational hygiene.