Meet Deft
Deft is a trusted provider of colocation, cloud, and disaster recovery services with a 24-year history of award-winning support.
Our Mission
We were never able to find the IT support team we wanted, so we built it ourselves.
Any technology. Any compliance requirement. Any legacy situation. Any anything. We’ve got it. Deft makes your IT vision a reality.
Social Responsibility
At Deft, it’s not just about cables and code. It’s about the lives we touch and the impact we leave.
Our Social Responsibility Committee is a place for us to come together as a team, roll up our sleeves, and nurture the communities we serve. It’s a testament to our commitment to leaving a positive footprint that resonates far beyond the realms of business.
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Management Team
Meet the folks leading our company toward success.
Jordan Lowe
CEO
Jordan Lowe co-founded Deft in 1999 and today is responsible for company strategy.
He loves scuba diving and drinking adventurous new blends of whiskey — but not at the same time.
Daniel Brosk
COO
Daniel enjoys cooking, discovering new restaurants, skiing, and tinkering with home theaters.
Eric Dynowski
CSO
Eric Dynowski has been developing software, designing global infrastructures, and managing large technology installs for over 25 years.
His background in complex infrastructure design and integration has reduced customer budgets by millions.
Martin Lagler
CFO
He enjoys hiking, nature, traveling, and actively engaging in his local community.
Aaron Biggs
VP of Revenue
He enjoys home improvement projects, sports of all kinds, and traveling with his family.
Keith Dale
VP of Delivery
In his remaining time, he is a technophile, SciFi & Fantasy fan, and happy spouse.
Bethany Saxton
VP of People Operations
In her spare time, she enjoys live music, fostering kittens, and spending time with her family.
Dre Cadeddu
Director of Software Dev.
He was a former scientist and can usually be observed surrounded by kids. He likes manual work, sun, and pizza.
Sara Coullard
Director of Marketing
In her free time, she enjoys cooking, reading, finding new restaurants, and spending time with her spouse and two dogs.
Eric Dominguez
Director of Channel
He’s a practicing technologist who fuses engineering savvy with business acuity.
Chris Giandonato
Director of Data Center Ops
Jon Procunier
Director of Sales
He’s an avid outdoorsman and loves all Chicago sports (except baseball).
Kristy Boyer
Assoc. Director,
Cloud Services
In their free time, they enjoy knitting, exploring Chicago’s food scene, and supporting local fringe theater.
Joselito Tagarao
Assoc. Director,
Engineering Operations
Happy Customers
Here’s what customers have to say about Deft.
“With AWS, we give them $300,000 a month and they don’t care about us. They don’t answer our calls. But we call Deft and they’re on the phone with us immediately. They help companies like ours make the hardware work.”
“As the first district to deploy a disaster recovery plan, we were setting the pace for the rest of the state. We could not have done it without Deft.”
“We have yet to find another infrastructure provider with as high a level of professionalism as Deft.”
“Thanks for the quick turnaround on the cables. Gotta say, it’s pretty sweet having an on-site store.”
“Scale is never an issue for Deft. We’re using Deft’s GPUs to test AI/ML algorithms that catch objectionable content without human moderators. If it works, we’ll be able to moderate at scale.”
“The Deft option was qualitatively better and also happened to be less expensive than what we would have built ourselves.”
“They help us strike the right balance between the things we’re good at (writing the code and configuring VMs) and the things we just can’t competently manage, like diesel backup generators, redundant networks, or real-time replication to a failover data center.”
“This is managed infrastructure designed with security in mind.”
“I’ve bumped into bandwidth concerns at every other data center I’ve been in except Deft. They have more bandwidth on their multi-carrier backbone than I could ever ask for.”
“The Deft team took our needs to heart as though they were part of our company. They proactively created a rack diagram and performed our entire installation without a hiccup. They also saved us a lot of time by providing the required network and power cabling for us. We’ve been pleasantly surprised by how quickly and efficiently Deft staff addresses our requests and concerns.”
“Whenever we have issues with a server or network service, Deft is always the first to respond with a correct answer. I’ve been extremely impressed.”
“We’re experts in healthcare payment and billing processes. We’re not experts in architecting, deploying, managing, scaling, and supporting mission-critical IT infrastructure. This is where we turn to Deft. They're intimately familiar with our challenges and opportunities.”
“With Deft’s expertise, responsiveness, and flexibility, we were able to complete the server migration on time and on budget.”
“With the volume of data we manage, a migration was not going to be a trivial effort. Deft made a compelling case to move our primary hosting to take advantage of their network, expertise, and support, rather than purchasing a point-to-point product from a traditional carrier and paying for cross-connects on each side. This was a critical component that set the stage for the larger migration.”
Press
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