Lance Weaver
Vice President, Product Strategy & Emerging Services
Equinix
Speaker/Panelist 2018
Lance Weaver is VP, Product Strategy & Emerging Services at Equinix, the leading global interconnection and data center company. His organization is responsible for anticipating industry trends, creating platform strategy and inventing new products which accelerate company growth and deliver lasting customer value.
Prior to joining Equinix, Mr. Weaver was the CTO for Cloud at GE Digital where he was responsible for the cloud architecture of GE’s Industrial Internet of Things Platform (PredixTM) and the GE-wide enterprise IT global strategy leveraging public, private and hybrid clouds. He also held several additional roles for divisions of GE including CTO for Appliances & Lighting, a $9B division of GE where he led a 400 member global team delivering core infrastructure services, application middleware, and predictive analytics; Executive Director of Application Infrastructure; IT Operations Leader; and Chief Information Security Officer.
Prior to joining GE, Mr. Weaver was a consulting engineer for ten years designing, selling and implementing infrastructure solutions for a broad range of customers. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Truman State University.