Bill Kleyman is an award-winning data center, cloud, and digital infrastructure leader with a 20-year career at the forefront of technology. Ranked globally by Onalytica as one of the leading executives in cloud computing and data security, Bill is focused on advising organizations, training young talent, and educating global audiences about AI, machine learning, sustainable data center design, cybersecurity, and more.
Today, Bill is the CEO of Apolo, an AI platform and infrastructure company. He is also the Chair of the Education Committee at Infrastructure Masons and the AFCOM Data Center World Program Chair.
Uniquely comfortable in technical and business leadership roles, Bill worked with sustainable hyperscale data center environments while driving brand awareness as EVP of Digital Solutions for Switch. Bill has also served as Director of Technology Solutions for EPAM Systems, CTO for MTM Technologies, and Director of Technology for World Wide Fittings.
Every year, Bill speaks at several leading technology conferences. Thousands of his articles, blogs, whitepapers, and chapters appear in publications such as Data Center Frontier, Data Center Knowledge, ITPro Today, InformationWeek, and the Amazon Best Selling book “Greener Data.”
As the 2021 iMasons Education Champion Award winner, Bill is passionate about digital infrastructure sustainability, democratizing powerful technologies, evolving the IT industry, and training the next generation of empathic technologists focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion. In short, he works daily to build a more sustainable and inclusive future.