Director Advisor

Sam Talari

Chief Executive Officer

John Verghese

John is a seasoned telecommunication expert with over 24 years of experience in building and operating local and wide area networks. He is well rounded in all the functional areas of the telecom industry from planning, engineering and operations to sales and customer support. John began his career working for Florida Power Corporation soon after receiving his MSEE from Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida. When Progress Telecom was spun off from Florida Power, he was one of the first employees to move with the new company and run the planning group for the subsidiary. He has managed several significant projects while at Florida Power Corporation and was a key contributor to building the fiber optic network from Tallahassee to Tampa, facilitating the launch of Progress Telecom. Over the eight years at Progress Telecom, John was the chief architect for building the broadband network that extended from Miami to New York, covering multiple cities along the route.

Vice President Engineering

Terry Gardner

Terry Gardner – VP of Professional Services Terry Gardner brings over 30 years of utility engineering experience to Infrax Systems through his career spanning two leading utilities in the Southeast United States. He has extensive knowledge of broadband telecommunications networks, IP and Ethernet networking, NERC SIP requirements for substation and Critical Infrastructure communications, and Smart Grid Networks. Over his career, he has worked closely with industry associations, regulatory bodies and manufacturers to develop Fiber Optic communications and construction standards, relay and EMS communications over Optical based networks and has introduced many new technologies to the industry. Lately he has been instrumental in the introduction of Carrier Ethernet technologies with Ethernet Ring Protection into the utility telecommunications industry.

Senior Technology Officer

Kevin Defant

Kevin has a degree in Physics from the University of Alabama. He has 7 years of engineering experience and He has worked with the leading building automation technologies and brings that experience to the company. Kevin started his career working for Pro-Tech Monitoring doing testing for GPS tracking technology used for the DOC. He moved on, to own his own engineering consulting firm called Fidelity Engineering Corp. Kevin has worked in numerous engineering disciplines from software to chemical engineering. He has experience with an array of sensor technologies and has designed and built sensors and control systems. Kevin is the perfect person to help bring trusted building automations techniques and technologies to the grow industry. Using his unique skillsets Kevin can do systems integration to help HempTech Corp integrate their smart grow systems into existing grow environments.