Acacia Group founder and chief executive, in 2003. Headquartered in Chicago, Acacia began as a consulting firm specializing in Enterprise Document Management Systems (EDMS) and Document Imaging solutions. Today Acacia is an infrastructure based company that offers Data center Colocation/Hosting services, Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity and Hosting products and services. Acacia’s business and delivery model is the convergence of the intellectual property and capabilities developed by Mr. Adams, into the Acacia 360 Platform. The Acacia 360 Platform is the convergence of IT Infrastructure, intellectual property, superior technical expertise, processes and business alliances. This seven point platform creates a complete portfolio synergistic “Business Resilience” solutions and services that leverage Acacia’s core competencies, alliances and partners to deliver best in class solutions to solve the growth, regulatory compliance, risk mitigation needs of our clients. Co-founder and Managing Principal of DuSable Communications Internal LLC, Mr. Adams has over 30 years combined experience in the information technology industry as IBM Systems Center Manager,MCI Client Executive Data Center Outsourcing, EDS Vice President of Sales eSoutions, President, VectorOne Strategic Data Center Solutions. As sales and operations executive with several of the technology industries leading companies including Microsoft, has a proven record in building and leading successful sales and professional services organizations. Drove $400 million in sales of IT Outsourcing, Disaster Recovery, Insurance and Healthcare technologies for EDS. Mr. Adams attended the Ohio State University majoring in engineering. Mr. Adams joined IBM Corporation in 1973 and to Chicago from Dallas in 1997 as Vice President of Sales for EDS. After leaving EDS in 2001 Mr. Adams founded a Chicago based business development consulting firm that became Acacia Group in 2003.Specialties: Data Center Infrastructure, Colocation and Cloud ComputingData Center Aquisition and DevelopmentVoice and Data Telecommunications Services