Advisory Board

Andrew Rigoli, Vice President, Corporate Finance & Development, Equinix

Andrew Rigoli currently serves as Director of Finance at Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ symbol: EQIX) Andy has been involved in defining the company’s growth strategy and in financing numerous commercial real estate acquisitions primarily in the technology sector. His responsibilities at Equinix include financing, underwriting and supervision of the company’s real estate acquisitions, consolidations and repositioning of outdated data centers. Portfolio oversight includes proactive management of capital expenditures for projects and space in excess of 1.3M sq. ft. in Silicon Valley, Northern Virginia and Chicago. Leadership responsibilities include approximately $200M of debt placement (on $400M in projects) from various funding sources, long term debt placement from REITs, facilitating sale-leaseback transactions, etc. Prior to joining Equinix, Andy was an associate in the Mergers & Acquisitions group of Salomon Smith Barney’s Investment Banking Division in New York and Palo Alto where he played key roles in numerous financings and strategic projects for clients including buy-side and sale-side transactions for public and private companies, debt, equity and convertible debt capital raises.

Peter Offringa, VP, Engineering, Zoosk

Peter Offringa is Vice President of Engineering Zoosk.  Prior to joining Zoosk, Mr. Offringa was Vice President for the Tech and News business unit within CBS Interactive, responsible for software engineering, web development, site operations and quality assurance for the highly trafficked sites of CBSNews.com, CNET.com, Download.com, News.com, Shopper.com and CNET Reviews. Collectively, these sites deliver national news, technology product reviews, shopping services and software downloads to over 4 million people a day. As part of his role, Peter addressed the architecture, feature delivery and maintainability of the sites, as well as developing technologies to support content management, search, community features, data ingestion, video delivery, personalization, syndication and SEO. Prior to his work at CBSi, Peter was the CTO of Vehix.com, a leading automotive web site. As CTO, Peter led software development, product management, quality assurance and network operations. Before joining Vehix, Peter was VP of Engineering at OneMediaPlace and held leadership roles at several other internet start-ups in the areas of online auctions and consulting services. Peter also served four years as an officer in the U.S. Army. He graduated from Princeton University with a BSE in computer science.

Ade Patton, Hedge Fund Analyst, Citadel Investment Group

Ade Patton is a hedge fund analyst at Citadel Investment Group. Prior to Citadel, Mr. Patton was Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Analyst at Magnetar Capital LLC, an Evanston, IL based multi-billion dollar hedge fund. Prior to joining Magnetar, Ade developed his cross-functional expertise in finance and technology via positions at the Carlyle Group, in their Media and Telecommunications Buyout Group, at Lehman Brothers, in Leveraged Finance, and at Bain and Company as a Strategy Consultant. He holds a JD/MBA from Harvard Law and Harvard Business Schools and received a BA in American Government from the University of Virginia.

Stanley Chan, Senior Director, Business Development, Proofpoint Inc.

Stanley Chan currently performs strategic business development at Proofpoint, a venture-backed cloud-based email, messaging, and content security services company. Mr. Chan held senior strategy, business development, and engineering roles at VeriSign, Kindsight, Simply continuous, Equinix, and Sun Microsystems.