Finance Monthly CFO Awards 2019 Winners Edition

www.finance-monthly.com 59 Finance Monthly CFO Awards 2019 CONTACT Anubhav Raj Aligned Energy Tel: 1-800-232-4173 Corporate Headquarters: 2800 Summit Avenue, Plano, Texas 75074 CFO at Aligned Energy ANUBHAV RAJ ABOUT ANUBHAV RAJ Anubhav Raj has more than a decade of demonstrated financial leadership, serving as an expert in investment banking, IPOs and financial and operational strategy. As Chief Financial Officer for Aligned Energy, Raj is responsible for the company’s financial and operational strategy. He manages the development and monitoring of control systems that preserve company assets, reduce risk and report accurate financial results. Prior to Aligned Energy, Raj was the Senior Vice President at TIER REIT overseeing Capital Markets and Finance for the organization. He was also the Treasurer for CyrusOne overseeing Investor Relations, FP&A, Procurement, M&A and Capital Markets for the organization. While at CyrusOne, Raj helped manage the company’s IPO and numerous other transactions, successfully raising more than $3.5B in capital. Prior to CyrusOne Raj worked as a management consultant within Deloitte’s Strategy and Operations practice, working with clients across the Consumer and Industrial Products, Manufacturing and Healthcare and Life Sciences industries. His primary focus was on corporate growth strategy, M&A and finance transformation, helping foster profitable expansion for clients through an executable strategy. Raj graduated magna cum laude from Duke University with a Bachelor of Science in Economics with Distinction and holds a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School. FIRM PROFILE Aligned Energy is a data center infrastructure company that offers colocation and build-to- scale solutions to cloud, enterprise, and service provider clientele. Aligned Energy’s approach to infrastructure deployment allows it to deliver data centers like a utility – accessible and consumable as needed. This model helps the company reduce the energy, water and space needed to operate physical data center environments. With facilities in Arizona, Texas, and now Utah, Aligned Energy’s data center solutions, combined with its patent cooling technology, offer businesses a competitive advantage by improving reliability and increasing flexibility while reducing their bottom line. AREAS OF EXPERTISE Aligned Energy’s mission is to make critical infrastructure smart enough to continuously improve both its economic performance and environmental impact, delivering a noticeable business advantage, while helping secure the health of the environment. Aligned Energy’s data center facilities offer dynamic infrastructure to support high, mixed, and variable power densities utilizing patented and award-winning data center cooling technology to remove heat, rather than simply pushing cold air into a data hall. Factory-built eSYNC absorption units capture and remove heat at its source, resulting in a hyper scalable and ultra- efficient environment that dynamically allows workload densities to scale in place, as opposed to spreading out or requiring a massive investment to augment floors for increasing heat loads. To date, Aligned Energy has lowered the cost of operation, increased stability and reliability expectations, and set a standard for lower, smarter energy consumption that traditional data center facilities struggle to follow. As customers have grown in its facilities and demonstrated power usage effectiveness (PUEs) as low as 1.07 day over day – they prove to the industry that the numbers and methodologies practiced at Aligned Energy return real value. Aligned Energy is constantly striving to optimize its data center platform to improve sustainability efforts based on customer demand for greater water usage effectiveness and efficiencies. Providing clients with a platform that allows for their preferred deployment design as opposed to traditional methods of having their IT group design into a static environment enables Aligned Energy to onboard a wider variety of customers. Demonstrable, actionable speed, flexibility, sustainability and financial creativity are the differentiators at Aligned Energy, that clients receive from a company delivering in a way not seen from traditional platforms. Finance Monthly CFO Awards 2019 USA