Jay Adelson

Jay Adelson is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Center Electric. He also is an Advisor of Buoy Labs. Adelson is also a Co-Founder and Chairman of Opsmatic. He is a Board Member and Advisor of Netography. He is a pioneer in network interconnection and has been directly involved in two of the most important phases in the evolution of interconnectivity: Internet and mobile. With Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX), he founded the largest datacenter company on earth, where the networks that comprise more than 90% of the world's Internet traffic come to exchange data traffic. At SimpleGeo, he led a team that developed some of the first tools for developers to integrate location based services into enterprise and consumer software and mobile apps. As we are now in the midst of the next generation of interconnection that promises to connect billions of new devices, sensors and appliances, he is uniquely positioned to provide the learning from the two previous generations of interconnectivity to advance this next phase. In addition to his deep understanding of the interconnectivity infrastructure and ecosystem, he also has a strong consumer background. He built and led Digg at the peak of its popularity when it was featured on the cover of Business Week magazine as the vanguard of social and participatory media. He also founded Revision3, an Internet TV property that was acquired by the Discovery Channel. He has also been featured on the cover of Time Magazine as one of the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World. He also serves as a Board Member and Advisor of Calliope Waterworks. Previously, he served as Advisor at Grit Ventures.