Ben Edmond is the CEO and Founder of Connectbase, where he is responsible for
leading the company’s strategy, culture and operations. Prior to founding Connectbase,
Ben served as the chief revenue officer at Global Capacity, where he was responsible
for all aspects of the company’s customer go-to-market strategy and execution. Ben has
25 years of experience in the fiber, telecom and networking industries, encompassing
broad expertise in the areas of executive leadership, strategy, product, customer
experience, sales, marketing and operations.

Tony Farinacci recently retired from JPMorgan Chase after 22 years of service in executive leadership roles including CTO – Global Network Services, End-User Services, CISO – Global Technology Infrastructure, and Distinguished Architect – Cybersecurity Architecture.  His first 13 years were providing global oversight of JPMorgan Chase’s Voice & Data Network, and Perimeter Security with the last 9 years in Cybersecurity focused on Infrastructure and Cloud Security, Threat Modeling, Risk Assessment, Policy as Code, and Zero Trust.

Previous to JPMorgan Chase, Tony spent 9 years at KeyCorp in various executive leadership roles including oversight of Voice & Data Networks, Enterprise Architecture, Distributed Computing, and the Enterprise Command Center.

Tony started his career at General Electric where he spent 7 years in various technical leadership roles including Senior Architect & Systems Programmer (Mainframe, UNIX, VAX, LAN), Telecommunications and Networking.

Tony earned his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree at Cleveland State University.  He currently resides in Boca Raton, Florida with his wife.