CPG Appoints Adam Board to Newly Created Position of National Safety Director


Former JE Dunn executive brings 10 years of experience leading safety programs in both data center and critical infrastructure environments

ASHBURN, VA. – Dec. 16, 2020 – CPG — North America’s only complete data center service provider, offering design, construction and analytics-driven operations — today announced the appointment of Adam Board to the newly created position of national safety director. Board will lead, develop, coordinate and implement occupational safety procedures to ensure effective safety operations in the organization. In addition, he will assist in pre-planning, safety observations, incident investigation and management while utilizing industry leading indicators to drive continuous safety improvements across end-to-end customer lifecycles.

“As the data center industry’s premier end-to-end technology partner, our customers put their trust in CPG to protect the integrity of their business-critical data while also ensuring the physical safety of their people,” said Tom Mertz, CEO, CPG. “Adam brings the right mix of safety experience in mission-critical environments to elevate our safety programming and meet the high demands of our customers, some of the world’s most prominent data holders.”

Board brings more than a decade of safety experience in mission critical industries to CPG. Previously, Board led the mission critical safety and health program at JE Dunn Construction, managing $1 billion of data center construction that included ground-up data center builds as well as operational data center oversight. Board also managed and developed talent in the safety department, leading project sites to achieve a zero-incident culture.

“CPG’s end-to-end portfolio offers a unique opportunity to take my passion, expertise and experience for mission-critical safety and apply it far beyond facility construction,” said Adam Board, national safety director, CPG. “As we continue to help our customers navigate a new normal of data demand with accelerated builds, white space fit outs and data center optimizations, it’s more important than ever that safety is at the core of our operations – I look forward to ensuring that this is so.”

For more information about CPG, visit https://www.cpgbeyondthecloud.com/.

About CPG

Headquartered in Ashburn, Va. and backed by Columbia Capital, CPG is North America’s only complete data center service provider, offering design, construction and analytics-driven operations for conventional, hyperscale and edge data centers, at the speed, cost and integrity that operating at the edge now requires. Since 2000, Fortune 500s, enterprise cloud providers and colocation customers have entrusted CPG to design, build, commission, service, monitor and maintain over 2000MW of complex environments, while protecting and enabling their business-critical data.