Dan Davis
CEO, Arcadian Infracom
Speaker Profile
DANIEL DAVIS has 25 years of global operations, strategy, finance, regulatory and legal leadership experience in telecom infrastructure, data center, cloud, medical device and biotechnology companies. Prior to retiring from CenturyLink in 2017 and founding Arcadian Infracom, Dan provided corporate strategy and finance advice to technology companies as well as private investors in the infrastructure space.
At CenturyLink served in various legal, operational and corporate executive roles for nearly 15 years, most recently as its Vice President of Corporate Strategy. While at CenturyLink Mr. Davis was a core member of the M&A teams that acquired $30b of network, data center and software companies. Mr. Davis joined CenturyLink in 2003 after CenturyLink’s acquisition of LightCore, a long-haul fiber company where Dan was a founding executive.
Mr. Davis earned his B.A. degree in Political Science from The University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana (with significant coursework in mechanical engineering), his J.D. from St. Louis University and his Executive MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.
