Meet our executive team

As Chief Executive Officer of Flexential, Chris Downie is responsible for setting the company’s strategic direction and leading its external-facing priorities—including customer and partner relationships, investor engagement, and long-term growth planning. He works closely with the leadership team to ensure continued alignment across brand, financial strategy, and platform development. 

Chris joined Flexential in 2016 and has guided the company through a period of significant expansion and transformation, positioning Flexential as a trusted provider of secure, scalable hybrid IT infrastructure across North America. Under his leadership, the company has deepened its presence in key markets, grown its national data center and network footprint, and strengthened its reputation with enterprise customers and industry partners. 

Before joining Flexential, Chris served as Chief Executive Officer of Telx Holdings, a leading interconnection and data center provider based in New York. He brings more than 30 years of executive leadership experience in finance, operations, and infrastructure services, with earlier roles at Bear Stearns, Daniels & Associates, BroadStreet Communications, and Motient Corporation. 

Chris holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Dartmouth College and a master’s degree in international business from New York University. 

As President and Chief Operating Officer for Flexential, Ryan leads the company's internal day-to-day operations across all company functions, ensures the growth of the technology platform, and drives strategic execution. 

Since joining Flexential in 2020, Ryan has played a key role in scaling the company’s national platform of 40+ data centers and a 100Gbps private network backbone. His leadership has helped advance the FlexAnywhere® Platform—a unified infrastructure solution supporting colocation, interconnection, cloud, and managed services—to meet growing enterprise demand for secure, high-density deployments. 

With more than 25 years of experience in global infrastructure operations, Ryan has held leadership roles at UUNET, SAVVIS, XO Communications, Digital Realty, and Equinix. Before Flexential, he served as SVP of Global Solutions Enablement at Equinix, where he worked across network, platform, and sales functions to support customer and business growth worldwide. 

Ryan holds a bachelor’s degree in international business from the University of Phoenix.

Veena leads Flexential’s People and Culture team to support the overall business plan and strategic direction of the company. She has 20 years of experience in all aspects of Human Resources, including talent management, learning and development, total rewards and change management. Veena joined the company in 2020.

Before Flexential, Veena was a principal and managing director at Blake Street Group, offering talent and organizational consulting services to corporate clients, private equity and venture capital firms. In the past, she led HR at Optiv, CoreSite and worked with several other companies in various HR capacities.

Veena holds a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and a master’s degree from Cornell. She also completed the Advanced Human Resources Executive Program from the University of Michigan.

Patrick leads sales, sales operations, marketing, solutions engineering, channel and commercial management for Flexential and is responsible for the company’s focus and revenue growth investments. A 20-year-plus veteran of the technology industry, Patrick has a long record of success across a variety of fields, including sales, marketing, strategy and product development. He joined the company in 2017.

Before joining Flexential, Patrick was U.S. President for OnX Enterprise Solutions, where he helped transition the legacy VAR to a services-led model. Patrick was also Vice President of Sales for North America at Unisys, where he led sales teams in crafting IT solutions for large enterprises and public sector clients. He also held several positions at Sungard Availability Services, including Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and sales leadership roles at AT&T.

Patrick received his bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Saint Joseph's University.

Megan leads Flexential’s legal practices as General Counsel (GC), managing day-to-day legal strategy to ensure maximum efficiency. She spearheads the creation and management of the legal team that helps drive adoption for our FlexAnywhere™ platform and deliver on meeting customer needs for business agility.  

Megan has 14 years of legal experience in the technology industry, previously serving as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at ServiceSource, acquired by Concentrix. Before ServiceSource, Megan worked as General Counsel at Peak 10 + ViaWest, prior to the combined company’s rebranding as Flexential. Her early career also included roles such as Assistant General Counsel at LendingTree, and time spent in private practice. 

Megan holds a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University Bloomington and a law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law.

Garth is responsible for all aspects of financial and operational reporting as well as developing funding strategies to help drive the profitability and growth of the company. He has over 25 years of experience in leadership and financing of telecommunications and digital infrastructure companies.

Before Flexential, Garth was Chief Financial Officer at ExteNet Systems, a leading national provider of wireless infrastructure and services deploying indoor and outdoor small cell networks. Previously, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Kroll, a global cyber security, risk management, and information services company and was Vice President, Assistant Controller, International at American Tower Corporation, a publicly traded REIT. He started his career in investment banking with Morgan Stanley, where he raised debt and equity capital for telecom and internet infrastructure companies and developed and executed securitization financing structures to fund digital infrastructure companies.

Garth holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Auckland University (New Zealand) and a law degree from Melbourne University (Australia).

Brian leads the field sales teams at Flexential, taking time to understand and solve customers’ problems with tailored solutions across colocation, cloud, data protection, managed and professional services. He joined the company in 2020 with more than 20 years of experience in the IT infrastructure services and telecommunications industries with a track record of successfully running high performing sales organizations. 

Most recently, Brian led the top performing team within CenturyLink as Vice President of Sales and General Manager for new logo acquisition and overall sales growth. Prior to that role, he held leadership positions in sales, marketing, and operations at Level3, Time Warner and AT&T.

Brian earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and his master’s in Business Administration from the University of Southern California. 

Sherri leads Flexential’s Marketing team and drives growth for Flexential’s Hybrid IT portfolio, including the development and guidance of go-to-market strategies, customer and partner relations, branding and campaign management and lead generation. Before Flexential, Sherri led the global marketing team at Digital Realty and oversaw a significant global expansion, strengthening its market presence and accelerating demand generation.

Sherri brings over 25 years of B2B marketing experience to Flexential, having worked across both enterprise and startup businesses. Prior to her time as the Senior Vice President of Global Marketing for Digital Realty, Sherri spent time in leadership positions at Cisco and HP. At Cisco, she oversaw the global marketing portfolio for its services and service provider businesses before being appointed as its Global Partner Marketing leader.

Sherri holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Florida and an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Tricia leads Flexential’s external financial reporting team, responsible for managing the reporting of financial results to external parties, including our investors, shareholders and lending institutions. She joined the company in 2010.

Previously, Tricia held financial leadership roles at Continental Tire North America, Arthur Andersen and Deloitte. 

Ory is also a longtime volunteer and advocate for Susan G. Komen, having held various leadership positions on the local and national levels. She served six years of board service to Komen Charlotte. In 2012, she was elected to the national Susan G. Komen Board of Directors as Affiliate Representative to the board and served in the capacity of Audit Committee Chair for three years. 

Tricia is a Certified Public Accountant and received a master’s degree in Accountancy from the College of Charleston.