Jack Backes
EVP, Provident Data CentersJack Backes is a EVP at Provident Data Centers, where he leads strategic partnerships, industry outreach, and power solutions. His career spans real estate, data center infrastructure, and software engineering, including leading data center optimization efforts at LinkedIn and serving as founding engineer of Tensorlake’s LLM orchestration platform, Indexify. Jack began his career at Provident and later founded DXZ Media, an app and web development firm connecting real estate and tech. Now, after 12 years away, he returns to Provident with deep cross-industry expertise, supported by academic work at the University of Pennsylvania and ongoing studies at SMU in Datacenter Systems Engineering.