Team
One platform company and the three firms that build every lane.
Leadership
Wayne Douglas
Chief Executive Officer, Hypergate
Two decades delivering complex, high-stakes industrial facilities. Ten years as Head of Technology at FLSmidth, leading a 300-person organization across R&D and engineering, taking large-scale plants from concept to operation faster and more reliably.
Chris Schuler
President, Hypergate and Century Builders
Founder of Fargo-based Century Builders. Assembles trade teams to deliver mission-critical construction on time and on budget, with the local workforce and field discipline North Dakota buildouts demand.
Matt Coffel
Founder & Chief Commercial and Innovation Officer, Mission Critical Group
28 years in Electrical system equipment integrations, Mission critical experience in 4 countries and leading edge design of modular and skidded installations including all aspects of power chain supply in the mission critical space.
Lee Froemke
Mechanical Leader, SVL
20 years experience in Mechanical equipment system integrations, including system layout and design, equipment selection and design. Integrations through large scale industrial and mission critical. Specializing in mission critical mechanical layout, design and scalable systems. Including prior years in large scale industrial power plant construction and industrial project scheduling and estimation. Currently leading a team of Mission critical engineers at SVL.
Ravi Mallipedhi
Vice President, Procurement and Supply Chain, Hypergate
36 years in global procurement for a company with 50 locations and delivered projects in 125 countries.
Stephen Harrington
Chief Legal Officer, Hypergate
More than 25 years advising global engineering and industrial companies on complex EPC projects, major transactions, and enterprise risk. Former Group General Counsel of FLSmidth. Practical, business-focused approach to contract strategy and risk.
Field Team
Century Mission Critical's field organization consists of industry-leading experts in liquid-cooled AI and high-performance compute builds.
- Mike Connolly Director of Mission Critical Otto Fuchs 60K pull-down forging press (3rd largest in the world) · AWS PDX 90 four-building campus · Microsoft DSM 14–17 four-building campus · Google Oklahoma · APLD FAR01-02
- Kent Orfield Civil Superintendent Microsoft DSM 4–17 · QTS campus · Google campus · APLD FAR01-02
- Chris Christensen General Superintendent AWS PDX 90 campus, four buildings · APLD FAR01-02
- Jake Knight CSA Superintendent Meta campus · Microsoft DSM 11–14, Ginger East, Osmium, and Alluvion campuses · QTS Cedar Rapids campus · AWS Fairless Hills campus
- Juan Diaz Electrical Superintendent Microsoft DSM 11–17 · QTS campus · Vantage Data Centers
- Freddy Ayala I&E Inspector and Electrical Superintendent Microsoft DSM · ONEOK NGL Elk Creek · Energy Transfer · RNG facilities · Marathon oil and gas plant
- Donavan Vrem Safety Manager Microsoft DSM 11–17 · Vantage Data Centers · APLD FAR01-02
Individual project credits, not corporate contracts.
Delivery Firms
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Century Mission Critical
General contractor. Site, civil, structure, and white space.
centurybuildersnd.com ↗
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Mission Critical Group
Factory-built modular power. Generation and the electrical backbone.
missioncriticalgroup.com ↗
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SVL Data Center Cooling
Space cooling and the chiller plant. 50+ years of HVAC delivery.
dcc.svl.com ↗