QTS Realty Trust announced that it has named Brent Bensten as Chief Technology Officer and Jon Greaves as EVP of Quality Special Operations with leadership of federal service delivery and strategy Brent Bensten, QTS' current EVP of Architecture and Development, will assume the role of Chief Technology Officer, effective February 1, 2021, and now report to the Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Bensten joined the Company in 2015 and has more than 20 years of experience in technology and data center operations leadership roles. During his tenure at QTS, Mr. Bensten has overseen the core initiative of digitizing QTS' internal and external systems and processes. Mr. Bensten has also led the development and implementation of QTS' innovative Service Delivery Platform (SDP), the industry's first software-defined orchestration platform. SDP remains one of the Company's strategic differentiators in the marketplace by empowering customers to interact with their data and QTS services with real-time visibility, access and dynamic control of critical metrics and solutions from a single platform. As part of this transition and in response to the accelerating momentum QTS has experienced in the federal vertical, the Company is announcing the appointment of Jon Greaves as EVP of Quality Special Operations, effective February 1, 2021. In this newly created role, Mr. Greaves will have primary oversight responsibility for QTS' federal service delivery and strategy and will continue to report to the Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Greaves will also support Mr. Bensten on the Company's broader technology and service delivery functions including direct customer and partner engagement. Mr. Greaves joined QTS in 2015 following a 20+ year career in technology services leadership roles across information security and data center operations. He has served as QTS' Chief Technology Officer since 2016 and has over 15 years experience supporting federal operations and systems and has played a key role in establishing QTS' federal operational maturity.