Chris Opat
President, BuildNow
Leading BuildNow with over 25 years in cloud and mission-critical operations, developing job-ready data center talent through hands-on training and certification.
With over 25 years of experience in cloud and mission-critical operations, Chris Opat leads Build Now with a focus on operational excellence, accountability, and customer-first execution. His career includes leadership roles at organizations such as Backblaze, StackPath, Cloudreach, and Bear Stearns, where he built and scaled high-performing teams supporting complex, always-on environments.
Chris brings a disciplined, operations-driven mindset to Build Now, Overwatch's training program that gets candidates certified and job-ready before they ever step on a job site. Under his leadership, Build Now is creating a reliable pipeline of qualified talent for the evolving demands of modern data centers.
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