Strahan McCarten

Senior Vice President, Strategy & Business Operations at eStruxture Data Centers

Speaker

Strahan is responsible for eStruxture’s commercial and business operations, and adds over 20 years of leadership experience in IT services & mission-critical data centers to the team at eStruxture.

Prior to joining eStruxture, Strahan was the Senior Vice President of Product & Strategy at Q9, a pan-Canadian data center provider that was recently fully acquired by Bell Canada. Before Q9, Strahan was the Vice President of Marketing & Product Development for Scalar Decisions. Strahan has also held senior leadership positions in the Hosting & Cloud Computing practice of Bell Canada, as well as management consulting and hands-on IT services delivery roles.

A respected cloud & IT infrastructure expert, Strahan is a frequency speaker and contributor at vendor and analyst conferences, including the Pacific Telecom Conference, Data Center Dynamics, infraSTRUCTURE and other notable industry events and publications. Strahan is also a former member of the Board of Directors for the Toronto Public Library, North America’s largest Public Library system.

Strahan received his MBA from the Rotman School at the University of Toronto in 2005 and currently resides in Toronto, with his wife Heather and their three children.