Washington, DC – August 23, 2024 – IDCA has announced that Mark Gusakov has joined the organization as Chief Certification Officer. Mark has experience as a Director at Uptime Institute, VP of Business Development at Data Inventions, and in management positions with Rittal and Kaman Fluid Power. He also serves as an Advisory Board Member and the Chairman of the Governance Committee with Nomad Futurist.

“After being heavily vested in a wide variety of applications serving the digital infrastructure industry for over two decades, my latest experiences have brought me to the conclusion that the future belongs to the vision IDCA is depicting and supporting for our industry", stated Mark Gusakov on the occasion of his joining.

"Collaborative compliance standards are critical to a modern, holistic, and effective set of open standards that address AI, application, and Cloud needs, to bring transparency and enable simplified decision-making for end-users,” he continued. "The IDCA approach is game-changing and necessary. There is nothing else like it. IDCA is the Digital Infrastructure benchmark of excellence we have been waiting for."

“We believe that Mark is a great addition to the IDCA family helping our clients and partners around globe to navigate across the wide spectrum of IDCA services for their digital infrastructure reliability, sustainability and relevance, as well as economic viability,” said IDCA Chairman and CEO Mehdi Paryavi. “Our holistic approach in defining certifications and dynamic standards meshes perfectly with Mark's passion in bringing an uplifting set of methodologies to raise the bar of excellence for our industry.”

IDCA’s establishment of up-to-date, comprehensive, and unbiased standards defines key technical frameworks for information, data management, and delivery. IDCA standards are inclusive of data center, cloud, application, and IT standards. IDCA's professional certifications comprise the world’s leading professional training and certification for specialized technicians, operators, designers, architects, engineers, technologists, auditors, consultants, vendors, business executives, and project managers. Within its program, IDCA certifies and validates the capabilities and claims of five distinct but interrelated pillars of digital infrastructure effectiveness, reliability, and sustainability.