DG Matrix, the global leader in solid-state transformer solutions, today announced the appointment of Anthony Wanger, a digital infrastructure entrepreneur, executive and investor, as its first Executive Chairman. Wanger will work alongside CEO Haroon Inam and the company’s board, engineering, solutions and commercial teams as DG Matrix builds the power fabric for the Intelligence Age, the software- and AI-driven control layer that manages every watt flowing from the utility service through on-site generation, storage and power conversion and protection into the GPU.
Wanger’s career is distinguished by the early identification of structural shifts in technology infrastructure and the building of platforms to capitalize on them. For more than two decades, he has developed global digital infrastructure businesses, generating billions of dollars in value for institutional investors. He is the Founder and CEO of Regnaw Capital, LLC, a family office investing in digital infrastructure and growth-stage technology markets.
He has established a consistent record of market leadership at each major inflection point in digital infrastructure. In 1999, well in advance of enterprise colocation emerging as a mainstream asset class, he developed a vacant Phoenix industrial property into a carrier-grade colocation and telecommunications platform that was acquired by Digital Realty Trust for $180 million in 2006. In 2007, he co-founded IO Data Centers, where, as founder and president, he directed the company’s expansion across North America, Europe and Asia, pioneering high-efficiency, high-density data center design that anticipated the power density and thermal management requirements now defining modern AI infrastructure.
Wanger identified the shift toward modular infrastructure early, co-founding BASELAYER as one of the first companies to commercialize prefabricated, modular data center technology, which was acquired by IE Corp. in 2021. From 2021 to 2024, he served as an Industry Advisor and Co-Investor with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (“KKR”), contributing to several significant digital infrastructure transactions, including the multi-billion-dollar take-private of CyrusOne. Having identified liquid cooling as an emerging constraint at the intersection of AI scaling and data center power density, he was instrumental in KKR’s 2023 acquisition of CoolIT Systems, where, as Executive Board Member and Special Advisor, he helped reposition and scale the business into the hyperscale market. That process culminated in CoolIT’s pending acquisition by Ecolab, Inc.
“Anthony has been years ahead of the market at every turn, from carrier-grade colocation to hyperscale, modular data centers and liquid cooling, and he has the rare ability to see where digital infrastructure is going and build the platforms that get it there,” said Haroon Inam, CEO of DG Matrix. “He understands, better than almost anyone, why 800 VDC and intelligent power conversion now sit at the center of every AI buildout, and why speed to power is speed to inference. Having Anthony as our Executive Chairman will sharpen how we build, deliver and service our solid-state transformer solutions, and accelerate our path to becoming the power fabric of the Intelligence industry.”
Wanger joins as the data center industry confronts a fundamental transition in how power is delivered to compute. NVIDIA’s product roadmap and rising chip energy density are driving the transition to 800 VDC architectures, which are required to support next-generation systems such as Vera Rubin. DG Matrix’s AI-enabled Interport™ platform is built for this transition: collapsing multi-stage power conversion into a single, software-defined stage, absorbing GPU pulse loads, and actively controlling every watt flowing between the grid, on-site generation, storage, UPS and compute loads. DG Matrix operates the largest solid-state transformer engineering team of any company in the world, giving the platform a multi-year lead on SST hardware, firmware and AI-driven control software.
“Innovation always comes from outside the industry, and what DG Matrix has built is a change of kind, not degree. It changes how power is routed to microprocessors,” said Anthony Wanger. “I was searching for the next great opportunity defined by scale and shortage, and DG Matrix is where power direction and routing are going.”
The Executive Chairman appointment was assisted by Salamone Partners, a sector-specialist executive consulting firm focused on the leadership shaping the energy transition and next-generation infrastructure. The firm partners with venture-backed innovators, infrastructure investors and public companies to recruit executives and board leaders for companies at critical stages of growth and commercialization.
About DG Matrix
DG Matrix has commercialized the world’s first multi-port solid-state transformer to solve the most urgent challenges in deploying power infrastructure for AI datacenters and electrification. Its AI-enabled Interport™ platform acts as the intelligent power fabric of the data center, enabling faster deployment, lower energy costs, and software-controlled integration of all energy sources and loads — at scale, anywhere in the world. Learn more at https://www.dgmatrix.com/.
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