Mark Thiele

Provide Strategic Leadership advice and expand the reach of Nomad Futurist into future generations of data center employees.

Serve on the Board of Directors for IDCA, contributing to strategic initiatives focused on the development of national and regional digital infrastructure hubs. Advise on adoption of advanced data center technologies and best practices, including design standards, operational efficiency, and scalability to support evolving enterprise and AI-driven workloads. Support partnership and ecosystem development, working with industry stakeholders to strengthen digital infrastructure capabilities and accelerate market maturity across target regions. Collaborate with fellow board members to align standards, certifications, and market positioning with emerging global requirements and competitive dynamics.

• Serve on the Board of Directors for TensorWave, advising on company strategy, capital formation, and organizational scaling to support rapid growth in AI infrastructure markets. Provide guidance on scaling high-performance compute platforms, including GPU infrastructure strategy, capacity planning, and go-to-market alignment for AI workloads. Advise the CEO and executive team on strategic decision-making, including funding strategy, market positioning, and prioritization of growth initiatives. Partner with leadership to drive operational maturity, innovation, and execution discipline across product, infrastructure, and business functions.

Co-founded Edgevana with the objective of building foundational infrastructure for the next generation of the internet, focused on globally distributed compute and edge enablement. Scaled the organization to ~50 employees across the U.S. and international markets, establishing a distributed operating model aligned with global infrastructure deployment. Developed and executed a global platform strategy, securing partnerships with data center operators and network service providers worldwide to enable a federated, distributed compute ecosystem. Drove revenue growth to double-digit millions, achieving product-market fit across enterprise and emerging AI and edge use cases. Achieved profitability within three years, demonstrating disciplined execution, capital efficiency, and a sustainable growth model.

The Edgevana Podcast will illuminate subjects in the IT infrastructure space. Never in IT history has infrastructure been more abstracted yet more critical to so much of what a business does. Whether edge computing, digital transformation or increased agility and security are the goals having choice is essential to enterprise success. Access to modern infrastructure (Data centers, global networks, IT gear, cloud, edge computing, etc) are more and more these days, exemplified by the notion of "Best Fit". There is no single right answer and we hope to shine light on the alternatives.

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