Here is an overview of the corporate management team for Quality Group of Companies and Quality Technology Services, the colocation and managed services division.

Chad Williams
CEO, Chairman
Quality Group of Companies

With over 20 years of experience as CEO of Quality Group of Companies (QGC), Chad has diversified Quality into a multi-faceted organization with mission-critical real estate development as the primary business. Chad took a leadership position from his father, James L. Williams in 1988 and refocused Quality from the automobile industry towards real estate. Since taking the leadership, Quality has expanded to include a multi-state property portfolio built around the development of special-use mission-critical facilities.

QGC is now a nationally based, special use full-service developer. QGC has built a multi-state property portfolio around the development of special-use turnkey facilities. One of its signature projects is the Western Archeological and Conservations Center (WACC) in Tucson, Arizona. This was a build-to-suit lease for the National Park Service. It's one of the country's only archival storage facilities constructed with all of the most recent national archival storage standards implemented by NARA. The WACC facility houses over four million artifacts for the National Park Service and this transaction was the first government lease that Moody's had extended an AAA investment grade rating. The QGC Facilities Management Group fully operates and maintains the WACC facility.

In 2003, QGC began the acquisition of Tier 2 and higher data/colocation centers with the strategy to build a national presence for providing this type of highly secured, highly redundant facilities. The 2005 purchase of e^deltacom continues to grow the national footprint of space at the same time launching a managed service company to provide services to all eleven of its national data centers. QGC currently employs more than 300 people nationally and owns/operates/manages in excess of 2 million square feet of special use facilities located strategically throughout the United States. 

 

Mark Waddington
President
Quality Technology Services

Mark has more than 20 years of leadership experience building and managing technology operations. He began his career at Electronic Data Systems (EDS), a world-class provider of technology services and quickly moved into leadership roles.

An accomplished corporate strategist, he has a history of building and growing successful organizations, including the technology division of a 15 Billion Dollar financial institution, First National Bank of Omaha; a technology services company, First National Technology Solutions; and a nationally based technology managed services company, Quality Technology Services.

As President of First National Technology Solutions, Mark restructured and grew a technology services company into profitability in the first year and increased revenue 400% in the first four years. This company quickly became known as a leading data center provider for the Midwest.

Currently, Mark is the President of Quality Technology Services and quickly transforming the new company into a leading managed service and data center provider with data centers across the country and a world-class facility in Atlanta, Georgia. Under Mark's leadership, Quality Technology Services has outperformed projections and become recognized as a leading national provider.

Mark received his business degree from Wayne State College in 1986 and was named Outstanding Business Alumni in 2003. He has been a technology-board advisor for many educational institutions and a board member for a homeless shelter for the last four years.

Shirley Goza
General Counsel
Quality Group of Companies

Shirley Goza joined Quality Group of Companies in 2004 as Director of the Quality Mock Trial facility. In 2006, she expanded her role to General Counsel and Director of Quality Litigation Services. Shirley has over 20 years of experience as a practicing attorney and law professor. Prior to joining Quality, she was a partner with the law firm Shook, Hardy & Bacon where she garnered national attention by winning a high profile whistleblower case that was highlighted in the National Law Journal's report on major verdicts.

Shirley received her law degree, with honors, in 1982. In addition to a robust litigation practice, she taught Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation, Advanced Litigation Drafting and Legal Research and Writing at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Law. She also taught Torts II as a visiting professor at the University of Kansas School of Law. Shirley has been published on a number of topics and has received a number of awards, including, Who's Who of American Women. Shirley is also involved in a variety of charitable activities, including, the University of Kansas National Merit Scholarship Fundraiser, University of Kansas Law School Alumni Association Board of Directors, Chairperson, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Auction, and the Women's Employment Network.

Jay Ketterling
CFO
Quality Group of Companies

Jay has worked in the accounting profession since 1983. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from MidAmerica Nazarene University in 1980 and his Masters of Business Administration from Kansas University in 1983. After working in controller and chief financial officer positions in private companies until 1992, he then worked for nine years in a public accounting firm performing financial audits, tax preparation and other accounting related consulting services.

Ketterling joined Quality Group of Companies in 2001 and is currently responsible for overseeing the accounting and financial systems of the company. His duties also include financial reporting and serving as liaison with Quality's outside CPA firms for corporate tax and audit preparation services.

Ketterling is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and has served as treasurer for various nonprofit organizations, as well as several state and federal political campaigns.

Mark Charlton

Director of Development

Quality Group of Companies

With more than 15 years of experience in the AEC industry, Mark Charlton understands the intricacies and issues associated with every phase of a project from initial design concept to final punch. Mark’s extensive experience in a wide variety of project types, including government facilities and corporate office buildings makes him a key asset to the Development side as well as the rest of the project team. Mark has served as architectural Project Manager for numerous projects and has the skills and knowledge to appropriately manage a project, provide effective communication to the client as well as other team members and serve as a problem solver when issues and concerns arise.   He also has the ability to handle multiple projects and tasks simultaneously while remaining organized, informed and in-touch with project representatives, subconsultants and vendors.

Mark has designed, managed and constructed more than 1.25 million square feet of class A, mission-critical office space for the GSA, FBI, USMS, USDC, US Attorney, DEA, ATF and SSA. His involvement with these projects has resulted in a more thorough understanding of the GSA’s requirements, an established working relationship with various federal government offices and detailed knowledge of federal requirements in regards to security, blast, site planning/capacity studies and Program of Requirements (POR) and Solicitation for Offers (SFOs).

Prior to joining Quality Group of Companies, Mark served as the architectural project manager for a national architectural firm where he was a key member in successfully being short-listed and awarded more than a dozen national GSA design competition projects. Projects included FBI Birmingham, DEA/ATF Birmingham, Great Falls Montana Courthouse, Austin Social Security and FBI Jacksonville.

John Jenkins
Vice President, Facilities Management
Quality Group of Companies

Since 2003, John has been responsible for all aspects of facility management for Quality Group of Companies. Those responsibilities include, but are not exclusive to: plant budgets, supervision of plant personnel, repairs and maintenance, energy management, new construction, remodeling and commissioning. He oversees in-house custodial operations, landscaping, contract services, review of operational procedures, and systematic inspections. He provides direction and shares his expertise in facility management with all members of the Quality team.

John has 32 years experience in facility management, 21 spent in a College/University setting where he managed all facets of operation and maintenance for multi-campus facilities. He was responsible for interior design, visual standards guide, consultant procedures/design guideline, fleet, public safety and campus master plan/space utilization. He served as University liaison with architects, engineers and contractors engaged in construction, and renovation. Projects included: resident halls, a science building, utility tunnel, annual rehabilitation projects from $400K - $2.0 million, campus loop electrical distribution system, and a campus chilled water loop using absorption chillers at a new central campus chiller plant. He also developed a conceptual design for co-generation plant to offset energy usage for science building.

Brian Johnston

Chief Operations Officer

Quality Technology Services

As Chief Operations Officer, Brian provides technology leadership for IT infrastructure, product development and data center operations. He oversees operational functions throughout the company and designs and implements programs that strengthen the company's processes and increases efficiency. Brian is responsible for service delivery, technical operations, OSC operations, customer support, carrier management and Program Management.

With more than 16 years of experience, Brian has worked in various sales and engineering positions for several of the nations top technology company's. Brian's experience working with large organizations and systems around the world, affords him an intimate understanding of the importance of performance and capacity through analytics, monitoring and reporting, making him invaluable to the QualityTech organization.

Brian holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from Bellevue University. 

Shelagh Montgomery

Executive Vice President of Sales

Quality Technology Services

Shelagh was promoted to Executive Vice President of Sales in 2008, prior to this promotion; she served as the general manager for QualityTech East. As a former Globix employee, Shelagh transitioned to QualityTech in 2006, when Quality purchased Globix Hosting LLC (Globix). Over the past 2 years, she has successfully lead QualityTech's east coast sales to continued growth and helped lead a successful migration of almost 100 colocation and managed service customers.

Ms. Montgomery brings more than 10 years of technology sales and management experience to QualityTech. Prior to joining Globix in 2004, Ms. Montgomery was the New York sales manager for Digex Inc, a subsidiary of MCI Telecommunications. She also managed the New York sales team for PSINet, Inc.

Shelagh holds a master's degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. 
 

Dan Kurtz

Executive Vice President - Marketing

Quality Technology Services

As Executive Vice President of Marketing, Dan is responsible for developing and implementing strategic marketing initiatives company wide. His strong sales and leadership skills have proven to be instrumental in establishing QualityTech as a world-class managed services and IT infrastructure company. Prior to joining QualityTech in 2005, Dan served as National Sales Manager for First National Technology Solutions, where he was instrumental in creating their Mainframe Outsourcing practice bringing the company over $20 Million in contracted new business over 3 years. Dan brings more than 17 years of experience in sales and the development of engineering solutions including designing technical architecture for mainframe and open systems storage; capacity planning and performance management.

Dan holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from Bellevue University.

Christina Lamb

Director of Business Development

Quality Group of Companies

Christina brings more than 10 years experience marketing for the AEC industry. As Director of Business Development for Quality Group of Companies, she brings an intimate knowledge of the strategies and tools necessary to successfully pursue a variety of project types on a national basis. Christina’s knowledge and ability to dissect Requests for Proposals and Solicitations for Offers and target in on specific information required has been crucial to successful marketing efforts. Key to her success has been her ability to lead the marketing effort, provide client administration and manage the coordination and organization of information. Her ability to manage the marketing effort and serve as the primary point of contact for the project team allows the rest of the team members to concentrate on their area of expertise.

Prior to joining Quality Group of Companies, Christina served as the Director of Marketing for a national architectural firm and was a key team member in the firm being awarded several high-profile projects across the country. While serving in this role, the firm experienced a significant increase in revenue as she was responsible for leading the firm to a 100% Phase I success rate on more than a dozen national GSA Design-Build Competition submittals. Christina’s distinct advantage comes from her ability to find and emphasize the team’s strengths and tailor a response highlighting the qualifications of all team members.