Executive Management
George Macricostas, Chairman, CEO, President, and Founder
Mr. Macricostas founded RagingWire in 2000 and served as the company's first CEO. In 2005, Mr. Macricostas was named Executive Vice Chairman and in 2011 was named Chairman of the Board of Directors. As one of the early proponents of the data center colocation industry he is a successful entrepreneur, and with two patents to his credit he is a technology innovator.
During his tenure, Mr. Macricostas led RagingWire to sustained profitability in the third year of operation during a very challenging and competitive business cycle following the end of the “dot-com bubble." He has grown the company to become an industry leader culminating in the investment of $350 million by NTT Communications in RagingWire in January 2014.
Previously, Mr. Macricostas was a Senior Vice President at Photronics, Inc., (NASDAQ:PLAB), a leading global supplier of photomasks to the semiconductor industry. He was responsible for all aspects of the company's IT infrastructure. Mr. Macricostas remains an active contributor to Photronics as a member of its Board of Directors.
Mr. Macricostas is a member of the Board of Directors of the Jane Goodall Institute, and was a finalist in the 2007 and 2009 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year program.
Mark Morrow, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Mark Morrow has more than 20 years of financial and operational experience in the semiconductor industry, and more than four years of independent consulting for leading technology companies. As Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, he presently leads the financial activities of the company, and is instrumental in implementing RagingWire’s long term strategic goals, including planning and securing growth capital to fund the company’s rapid expansion.
Immediately before joining RagingWire, Mr. Morrow served as a consultant for several leading technology companies. Prior to that, he served in a career that spanned over 20 years in a number of capacities at Photronics, Inc, (PLAB), a worldwide leader of photomask manufacturing and technology. Most recently he served as Vice President of Operations, North America, where he was responsible for producing approximately $140 million in annual revenue and managed an organization of over 1,000 people. Mr. Morrow was instrumental in successfully completing Photronic’s Initial Public Offering in March of 1987. At that time Mr. Morrow served as Controller, and later as Vice President of Finance. Further, he completed numerous stock and bond offerings subsequent to the IPO.
Mr. Morrow graduated Summa Cum Laude from Post College, Waterbury, Connecticut, and received a Masters in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance, achieving high honors from the University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Douglas S. Adams, Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer
Douglas Adams has 25+ years of sales and marketing experience within the high technology and consumer packaged goods industries. As a founding executive of RagingWire and Chief Revenue Officer, he has responsibility for client relationships, business development, market intelligence, corporate communications, and the RagingWire brand, providing leadership and strategic directions to ensure client satisfaction and drive RagingWire's growth.
Previously, Mr. Adams was vice president of sales and marketing, and general manager, for NEC Technologies, Inc. with executive responsibility for sales, marketing, technical support, and customer service for NEC's magnetic and optical data storage products. Mr. Adams started his career with Mars, Inc., in sales and business development roles, ultimately rising to senior management through successes in category management, applying technology to the sales environment, and developing communications and project management best practices.
Mr. Adams has a bachelor's degree in Business Administration-Marketing from the University of Southern California.
Jason Weckworth, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Jason Weckworth maintains executive responsibility for critical facilities design and development, infrastructure engineering, critical facilities operations, construction, quality assurance, client services, infrastructure service delivery, and physical security. Jason brings over 25 years of data center operations and construction expertise to the data center industry. Previous to joining RagingWire, he was Owner and CEO of Weckworth Construction Company which focused on the design and construction of highly reliable data center infrastructure by self-performing all electrical work for operational best practices.
Mr. Weckworth holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the California State University, Sacramento.
William Dougherty, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
William Dougherty is responsible for RagingWire Data Centers' Operations Control Center, IT architecture, service delivery and software development staff. Mr. Dougherty brings nearly 20 years of experience in information technology and data center operations, including high reliability computing, e-commerce operations, information security, and network operations center management to the RagingWire team.
Prior to joining RagingWire, William was the Director of Site Operations for StubHub, an eBay company, the world's largest online ticket marketplace. Previous to StubHub, William was Vice President of Operations at FusionStorm and held various IT operations and security roles at Copart, a global automobile e-commerce company.
Mr. Dougherty holds a Master of Science in Information Technology from Capella University, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Pepperdine University.
