Meet our executive team

As Chief Executive Officer of Flexential, Ryan Mallory 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.

Ryan joined Flexential in 2020 as Chief Operating Officer, was promoted to President and COO in 2025, and was appointed Chief Executive Officer later that year. Since joining Flexential, 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.

Sam Rudek serves as Chief Operating Officer at Flexential, where he leads the company's development, engineering, product strategy, infrastructure management, and service delivery functions. In this role, he is responsible for ensuring operational excellence across Flexential's national data center footprint while advancing the company's growth strategy and delivery of secure, scalable, high-performance infrastructure solutions.

With more than 20 years of experience in data center operations, engineering, construction, and mission-critical infrastructure, Rudek has built and scaled some of the industry's most complex operational environments. Before joining Flexential, he served as Chief Operating Officer for CBRE's Data Center Solutions business, where he oversaw operations across a 3,000-person engineering and operations organization spanning 350 data centers and a $1.2 billion capital asset upgrade and modernization program. He led HSE, technical, and reliability optimization across the portfolio and partnered with global leaders and OEMs to enhance CBRE's Global Operational Excellence Academy. He also helped drive key changes to operational processes, introducing process enhancements, human factors training, and AI analysis that reduced human-caused downtime by 30%.

Prior to CBRE, Rudek held senior leadership roles at World Wide Technology, BGIS/Schneider Electric, and IES Communications, where he guided the company’s data center division to profitability within 14 months. Throughout his career, he has led large-scale infrastructure deployments, capacity expansion initiatives, and operational transformation programs for enterprise, hyperscale, and colocation environments. His experience spans greenfield and brownfield data center development, global operations management, digital transformation, and workforce development.

Recognized for building high-performing teams and driving reliability at scale, Rudek combines deep technical expertise with a hands-on leadership style focused on customer outcomes, operational rigor, and continuous improvement. He is an active member of AFCOM, ASHRAE, the Uptime Institute, and Infrastructure Masons (iMasons).

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).

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.

As Chief Information Officer at Flexential, Greg leads the company’s technology strategy, infrastructure operations, and global security initiatives. He is responsible for ensuring that Flexential’s platforms remain secure, scalable, and adaptable to evolving enterprise requirements, while enabling the growth of the company’s unified infrastructure solutions. 

With more than 25 years of experience in IT infrastructure and cybersecurity, Greg has guided large-scale digital transformation initiatives and built resilient, high-performing technology organizations. Before joining Flexential, he spent more than a decade at Equinix in progressive leadership roles, including Interim Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Global IT Infrastructure, where he drove the adoption of a “Cloud Smart” strategy, advanced global networks and applications, and enabled seamless transitions to remote operations. Earlier in his career, Greg held leadership roles at VeriSign and Oracle, supporting business systems, process design, and enterprise applications. 

Greg is also a co-inventor of four patents related to network and application monitoring and performance improvement—evidence of his long-standing focus on innovation, performance, and reliability in mission-critical environments.

As Chief People Officer at Flexential, Marilyn leads the company’s people and culture strategy, overseeing talent programs, strategic business support, organizational development, and people operations that support scalable growth and effective leadership.

Marilyn brings deep experience leading global people organizations through periods of rapid growth and transformation. Prior to joining Flexential, she held senior leadership roles at TELUS Digital, where she guided HR teams through significant global expansion, scaling the organization from approximately 5,000 to more than 80,000 employees. Her background includes global technology deployments, integrating mergers and acquisitions, organic growth, and public company readiness.

Earlier in her career, Marilyn held senior human resources leadership roles at Rogers Cable and Rogers Wireless, including Vice President of Human Resources at Rogers Wireless. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Master of Business Administration from the University of British Columbia and has completed executive development programs at Harvard, Stanford, the Rotman School of Business, and INSEAD.

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.

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. 

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.