Our Leadership

Board of Directors
Executive Leadership
Cloud One Digital Management
Liquid Web Management
Servers.com Management

Chip Schorr

Senior Managing Director at One Equity Partners

Chip Schorr

Senior Managing director at One Equity Partners

Mr. Schorr is a Senior Managing director at One Equity Partners and a member of the Investment Committee and Valuation Committee. Mr. Schorr’s prior and current investments, directorships and Chairman of the Board positions include Travelport, Fairchild Semiconductor, Intersil, Ameritas, Alliance Data Systems, AMI Semiconductor, Alorica, iFlex, Intelenet Global Services, nTelos, Crayon, Orbitz, STATS ChipPAC, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, Genband, Freescale Semiconductor, KEMET, Worldspan, SMIC, Allegro, MagnaChip, Valor Communications, Orion Innovation, Rizing, ePak, CDI, Spartronics, Infobip, and Mythics Emergent Group.

Prior to OEP, Mr. Schorr was Chairman and Managing Partner of Augusta Columbia, and before that a Senior Managing Director and Member of the Private Equity Investment Committee of Blackstone, having previously been Managing Partner of Citigroup Venture Capital Equity Partners. Mr. Schorr serves on the Board of Trustees of The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Board of Directors of Jazz at Lincoln Center and Snowmass Chapel. He received a MBA from the Harvard Business School with honors, and graduated magna cum laude from The School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University.

Mr. Schorr’s first novel, The After, was published in 2018 and his second novel, The Price, in 2021. Mr. Schorr has multiple cryptocurrency patents pending.

Carlo Padovano

Managing Director at One Equity Partners

Carlo Padovano

Managing Director at One Equity Partners

Carlo Padovano is a Managing Director at One Equity Partners. Mr. Padovano focuses primarily on investments in the technology, technology services, and tech-enabled business services industries. Mr. Padovano is a member of the Board of Directors of Mythics Emergent Group, Orion Innovation, CDI, and Cless, and has previously been a member of the Board of Directors of Rizing, Allied, Wow! Nutrition, Portal, and Unicoba.

Prior to joining OEP, Mr. Padovano worked at GP Investments, where he was a member of the Board of Directors of Magnesita Refratários and Brazil Hospitality Group. Previously, Mr. Padovano worked in the Investment Banking division of JPMorgan in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group. Mr. Padovano received his B.Sc. in engineering and management systems from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Columbia University.

Otavio Birman

Vice President at One Equity Partners

Otavio Birman

Vice President at One Equity Partners

Otavio Birman is a Vice President at One Equity Partners. Since 2016, Mr. Birman worked on investments in the technology, business services and industrial sectors. Mr. Birman is a member of the Board of Directors of Orion Innovation, Mythics Emergent Group and Cless Cosmetics, and has previously served on the Boards of CDI, Rizing, Unicoba, and Portal.

Prior to joining OEP, Mr. Birman worked at HSI, a real estate private equity firm focused on emerging markets, where he was involved in investments in the retail, logistics, residential, and hospitality sectors. Previously, Mr. Birman worked at UBS, covering the oil & gas industry. Mr. Birman received his B.Sc. in Business Administration from Fundação Getulio Vargas in Brazil.

Jim Gieger

Chief Executive Officer

Jim Gieger

Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Geiger is Chief Executive Officer of CloudOne Digital.

For over 35 years, Mr. Geiger has been starting, growing and managing high-growth companies in emerging technologies that focus on serving entrepreneurial SMBs. Since joining Liquid Web in 2015 and before sale to OEP, Jim and his leadership team grew the company globally to $161M, a 3x growth factor.

Prior to Liquid Web, Mr. Geiger founded and developed Cbeyond into a $485M publicly traded, leading provider of VoIP and cloud solutions to small and medium businesses nationwide, holding roles of Founder, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer. Other roles include Intermedia Communications, Chief Marketing Officer; Fibernet, Founding Principal and Chief Executive Officer; Frontier Communication, Various Positions Held; Price Waterhouse, Various Positions Held.

Mr. Geiger served as Chairman of the Board for Reach Local; Executive Advisory Board of the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University; Board of Trustees, Marist School; Board of Directors, Points of Light Foundation; TMT Advisory Board of Madison Dearborn Partners; Board of Councilors of the Carter Center in Atlanta; Business Advisory Group for Georgia Senatorial Candidate Michelle Nunn’s campaign.

Mr. Geiger holds a B.S. Accounting, Pre-Law Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY.

Raj Patil

Chief Executive Officer & President, Orion Innovation

Raj Patil

Chief Executive Officer & President, Orion Innovation

Raj is responsible for managing Orion’s growth as a leading provider of information technology and outsourcing services. With over 22 years of experience, Raj is a seasoned executive who has successfully led the growth and development of both significantly larger IT services companies, as well as start-up ventures. Prior to joining Orion, Raj was the President and COO of LiquidHub, an IT consulting and Services Company where he led the Business Units and Global Operations. In previous roles, he was a Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of aSpark, an IT Services Company focused on enterprise solutions in the emerging digital interactive market. He has also spent over seven years with MphasiS, an HP company, playing several key roles in its growth to over a billion dollars in revenues.

Raj received an MBA from the University of Chicago – Booth School of Business, MS in Computer Science from Villanova University, Pennsylvania and a BS in Computer Science from Mysore University, India.

Doug Rousso

Operating Partner, One Equity Partners

Doug Rousso

Operating Partner

Doug Rousso joined OEP in 2023 and is an Operating Partner specializing in the technology sector and is based in Los Angeles. Mr. Rousso is currently a member of the Board of Directors of MediaKind, Locality and CloudOne.

Prior to joining OEP, Mr. Rousso was the Chief Technology Officer for MGM Studios responsible for creating the industry’s first cloud native digital end-to-end supply chain. Mr. Rousso led the technology diligence for the studio during the Amazon acquisition and the subsequent integration program. Mr. Rousso has developed industry leading supply chain products for production, distribution, and consumer facing D2C and OTT video delivery solutions. Known for creating tremendous enterprise value through technology development; Mr. Rousso serves as a guest lecturer, public speaker and technology advisor. Prior to MGM, Mr. Rousso was the enterprise CTO for the CBS Corporation and its operating entities (CBS Broadcast Network, CBS Interactive, CBS Studios, CBS Radio, Showtime, and Simon & Schuster). Mr. Rousso was the CTO for Computer Associates (CA) Global Information Services and the Corporate VP and Chief Architect for Warner Bros.

Mr. Rousso graduated from the University of Southern California with a BS in Finance and Business Economics and an MBA in Information Systems Management.

Jim Gieger

Chief Executive Officer

Jim Gieger

Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Geiger is Chief Executive Officer of CloudOne Digital.

Mr. Geiger holds a B.S. Accounting, Pre-Law Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY.

Carrie Wheeler

President, Liquid Web Family of Brands

Carrie Wheeler

President of Liquid Web

Ms. Wheeler is the President of the Liquid Web Family of Brands which include Liquid Web, Nexcess, StellarWP and Modern Tribe.

Ms. Wheeler brings more than 30 years experience in high tech across consulting (Accenture), Telecommunications (MCI, AT&T, Cbeyond), and Cloud Hosting (Liquid Web, Nexcess).

Throughout her career, Ms. Wheeler has held executive positions across a variety of organizational functions Sales, Marketing, Information Technology & Strategy, Customer Operations, and Strategic Program and Capital Management. Ms. Wheeler specializes in transformational change, mergers and acquisitions assessment, planning and integration, and driving customer satisfaction initiatives while scaling organizations.

Ms. Wheeler holds a Masters in Business Administration from Southern Methodist University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing & Finance from Trinity University.

Ms. Wheeler currently serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors, Michigan Data Center Alliance. Recently recognized as “10 Most Inspiring Women” 2022 by Outlook Magazine. Previously, Ms. Wheeler was 2013 Georgia CIO of the Year, Enterprise Business; 2012 Atlanta Technology Professional of the Year, Finalist and 2011 Women in Technology’s Woman of the Year in Technology. Wheeler served as Board Chair, Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Education Collaborative 2010-2015; Member of Georgia CIO Leadership Association, 2011 – 2014.

Nick Dvas

President, Servers.com

Nick Dvas

President, Servers.com

Mr. Dvas is the President of Servers.com.

Mr. Dvas brings 15 years of experience in the tech industry, with the last decade spent at Servers.com. As an early employee of Servers.com, he held progressive roles in Product, as Chief Operating Officer and as CEO before their acquisition by CloudOne Digital. Before the sale to CloudOne Digital, Nick and his leadership team grew Servers.com into a leading global provider of bare metal cloud hosting and cloud servers with nearly $100 million in revenue.

Prior to Servers.com, Mr Dvas was Chief Marketing Officer at Clodo.ru, a Researcher with AlpineRelay, Inc. and an Editor at Ruformator.

Mr. Dvas holds a Masters in Sciences, Physics, Mechanical Engineering from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University.

Mr. Dvas holds a patent for Device and Method of Gyro Sensor Calibration – issued September 29, 2015.

Buzz Burton

Chief Financial Officer

Buzz Burton

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Burton is VP, Finance and Accounting and Acting CFO for CloudOne Digital.

Mr. Burton is a proven finance executive with more than 30 years experience transforming finance organizations into proactive business partners who deliver superior results. His experience in finance and accounting roles include enterprise and mid-market companies including NCR (Software), Earthlink (Internet Services), FiServe (Financial Services Technology) and, most recently, INAP (Data Center and Cloud Computing Services).

Mr Burton brings a wealth of experience including strategic long-range planning, budgeting/forecasting, financial reporting/analyses, mergers & acquisitions (including integration), process improvement, project management, accounting, pricing, change management, treasury, and system integrations.

Mr Burton holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Gonzaga University and an MBA from Indiana University – Kelley School of Business.

Konstantin Bezruchenko

Chief Infrastructure and Procurement Officer

BK

Chief Infrastructure and Procurement Officer

Mr. Bezruchenko is the Chief Infrastructure and Procurement Officer of CloudOne Digital and leads global infrastructure, networking and procurement.

Mr. Bezruchenko is a 20 years technology veteran. As founder and CTO of Servers.com, Bezruchenko helped grow the company into a leading global provider of bare metal cloud hosting and cloud servers with nearly $100M in revenue.

Prior to Servers.com, Concurrently, Mr. Bezruchenko was the CTO of Webzilla, an enterprise hosting and colocation company.
Mr. Bezruchenko is a member of the EMEA Customer Advisory Board.

Kathi McMullan

Chief People Officer

Kathi McMullan

Chief People Officer

Ms. McMullan is Chief People Officer for CloudOne Digital.

Ms. McMullan is a senior HR leader with a proven track record of helping organizations achieve their strategic goals through their people and culture. For more than 25 years, she has helped organizations attract and engage talent, build culture and workforce skills, and accelerate employee adoption of change.

Ms. McMullan’s experience includes key leadership roles within organizations – including communication technology companies, MCI and Verizon – as well as external advisory roles. As Managing Director of VCG Consultants’ Human Resources Consulting Practice, she developed and executed talent strategies for businesses across various industries – tech, energy, healthcare, fintech and manufacturing, to name a few.

Ms. McMullan has also lived and worked abroad. Her experience includes a London-based international assignment, during which she led Management & Organization Development for MCI Communications’ Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.

Ms. McMullan holds a Master of Science in Learning & Organizational Change from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Liberal Arts, Organizational Management from Oglethorpe University.

She is committed to developing the next generation of business leaders. She has served as a Member of the Advisory Council for the Georgia Department of Education Workforce Readiness Program – designed to provide students with heavy exposure to business, industry and all aspects of workplace readiness and employability skills. She also served on the Board of Directors for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Georgia State Council, where she had responsibility for the professional development of chapter leaders across the state.

Ms. McMullan’s experience includes key leadership roles within organizations – including Verizon – as well as external advisory roles. As Managing Director of VCG Consultants’ Human Resources Consulting Practice, she developed and executed talent strategies for businesses across various industries – tech, energy, healthcare, fintech and manufacturing, to name a few.

Ms. McMullan has also lived and worked abroad. Her experience includes a London-based international assignment, during which she led the Management & Organizational Development function for MCI Communications’ Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.

Ms. McMullan holds a Master of Science in Learning & Organizational Change from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Liberal Arts, Organizational Management from Oglethorpe University.
She is committed to developing the next generation of business leaders. She has served as a Member of the Advisory Council for the Georgia Department of Education Workforce Readiness Program – designed to provide students with heavy exposure to business, industry and all aspects of workplace readiness and employability skills. She also served on the Board of Directors for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Georgia State Council, where she had responsibility for the professional development of chapter leaders across the state.