{"id":656438,"date":"2013-05-07T08:49:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T12:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/?p=97159"},"modified":"2013-05-07T08:49:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T12:49:09","slug":"telx-ceo-eric-shepcaro-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656438","title":{"rendered":"Telx CEO Eric Shepcaro Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_97164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 460px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97164\" alt=\"Eric Shepcaro, the CEO of Telx Group\" src=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/telx-shepcaro-2.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Shepcaro, the CEO of Telx Group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Eric Shepcaro, the Chief Executive Officer of <strong>Telx<\/strong>, passed away Saturday after an illness. Shepcaro<span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0led the company through a period of tremendous growth, during which it became a national provider of interconnection and colocation services, with operations in major Internet gateways in markets around the U.S.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0He<\/span>\u00a0was a familiar speaker at industry events in the telecom and data center sectors.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Shepcaro joined Telx as CEO shortly after the company was acquired by GI Partners in late 2006, and<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0continued as CEO after Telx was acquired by ABRY Partners and Berkshire Partners in 2011.\u00a0Prior to joining Telx, Shepcaro worked for AT&amp;T, where he served as senior vice president of Business Development and Emerging Services and chaired AT&amp;T&#8217;s Emerging Technology Customer Board. He has also held executive positions at Netelligence Technologies, Digital Island and Sprint.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shepcaro had recently taken time off from his duties, during which the day-to-day management of Telx was overseen by an executive team led by President and CFO Chris Downie and board member John Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>Eric was always generous with his time and eager to discuss Telx and the data center industry. He will be missed.<span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Shepcaro, the CEO of Telx Group. Eric Shepcaro, the Chief Executive Officer of Telx, passed away Saturday after an illness. Shepcaro\u00a0led the company through a period of tremendous growth, during which it became a national provider of interconnection and colocation services, with operations in major Internet gateways in markets around the U.S.\u00a0He\u00a0was a familiar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}