LAKEMONT· Chicago

Commercial and operational leadership for the data center market.

The team with the experience you need to help your business grow.

Built for Growth. Proven in Execution.

Lakemont is the innovative team you'd assemble if you could hand-pick the leaders who've already built the go-to-market engines, stabilized complex operations, and eliminated execution risk—without adding permanent corporate overhead.

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Our Services

For vendors and service providers

Commercial

Building the revenue organization for companies that sell into data centers.

For owners and operators

Operational

Running the delivery organization, and the contracts that hold it together.

  • A senior commercial leader, part-time, for a defined term. We build your go-to-market approach, hire and lead the sales team, work live deals, and share ownership of the revenue number with your leadership team.

  • Market sizing and segment selection across hyperscale, colocation, enterprise, AI factory and neo cloud operators. Ideal customer profile, positioning, pricing, territory plans, and channel strategy with resellers, system integrators and OEM partners. Then we execute: first outreach, first meetings, first deals.

  • We turn the expertise already inside your teams into offers customers can buy. That covers portfolio gap analysis, offer design, scopes, pricing and launch, plus the delivery playbooks to scale them.

  • Bid/no-bid decisions, pursuit strategy and win themes, technical and commercial responses, and pricing and proformas built with your finance team, for new logos, renewals and recompetes.

  • Account plans, relationship maps and share-of-wallet strategies for your largest clients, plus renewal and recompete playbooks that protect the base before the RFP is issued.

  • We diagnose pipeline health, win/loss patterns, forecast accuracy and team capability, then deliver a prioritized plan. Where foundations are missing, we build them: stage definitions, qualification, CRM, dashboards, playbooks, value messaging, ROI tools and sales training.

  • Messaging, positioning and collateral that carry through every pursuit. Conference strategy built around pipeline, not just visibility: event selection, speaking and panels, pre-event targeting, on-site meetings, hosted events, follow-up and sponsorship negotiation.

  • A senior operations executive on a defined monthly rhythm. We own the operating cadence, govern vendors, hold escalation authority, steward the capital plan, and report at executive and board level.

  • A structured process for choosing an operations and maintenance provider: scope definition, RFP development, a bid evaluation framework, and support through negotiation, informed by years on the provider side of the table.

  • An audit of the current agreement against market scope and service levels, identifying what is measurable, what is enforceable, and what should be restructured at renewal or transition.

  • An ongoing framework for holding providers to the contract: scorecards, review cadence, escalation paths and corrective-action tracking, so performance is measured against what was agreed.

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