Melinda has over 30 years of experience in finance and has been a professional non-executive director since 2010 in a broad range of industries. Melinda is currently a Non-Executive Director of online furniture and homewares retailer Temple & Webster, where she is the Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee, and WAM Leaders Limited, a listed investment company managed by Wilson Asset Management that predominantly invests in large-cap Australian companies.

Melinda has held previous non-executive director roles at Best & Less Group Holdings Ltd, Newmark Property REIT, Mercer Investments (Australia), MLC, Sandon Capital Investments and Kennards Self Storage. Prior to her non-executive career, Melinda held investment banking roles with Grant Samuel, Merrill Lynch, and Goldman Sachs and was a solicitor in the corporate division of Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer.

Melinda holds a Bachelor of Economics and Laws from the University of Sydney and is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Since joining Megaport, Michael has led the Company’s transformation from a global leader in Network-as-a-Service into a distributed AI and digital infrastructure platform. Under his leadership, Megaport has accelerated its growth through strategic investments, product innovation, global expansion, and the acquisition of Latitude.sh, broadening the Company’s platform from networking into compute and storage while positioning it to meet the growing need for on-demand AI infrastructure. Michael is now overseeing the creation of the world’s first globally-distributed AI Inference Cloud, combining automated network, compute, storage, and an on-demand GPU Pool to deliver AI infrastructure at scale through Megaport’s footprint of more than 1,100 data centres across 31 countries.

Michael joined Megaport from Cisco, where he led the pure SaaS Network Visibility Business, ThousandEyes, as Chief Revenue Officer. In that time, he scaled the team from 150 to nearly 400, expanding into many new countries, and grew annual recurring revenue by 2.4 times, making it the largest Cloud, SaaS, and internet visibility platform in the world.

Previously, Michael spearheaded multiple Cisco acquisitions as Worldwide Head of Sales residing in California, USA.

Michael is known for his passionate and transformative sales and global go-to-market leadership, focusing on culture, people and execution. He previously led the Northern Region of Australia for Cisco, and prior to that, led Cisco Sales for Australia’s largest Financial Services customers. He brings over 20 years of industry experience and expertise to Megaport.

Michael holds a degree in Aerospace Engineering from Queensland University of Technology and was CEO Magazine Sales Executive of the Year 2019.

Jay Adelson has over 30 years of experience in technology and internet businesses globally. Jay co-founded Equinix (NASDAQ: EQIX) in 1998, and was responsible for the original and sustaining business model that grew it into one of the largest data centre companies in the world.

Jay also was instrumental in the establishment and operation of the original Palo Alto Internet Exchange for Digital Equipment Corporation in 1996.

In 2005, he founded the first internet television network, Revision3, which was acquired by Discovery Communications in 2012.

As CEO of Digg, Jay launched and grew the internet media company to tens of millions of users, and billions of impressions a month. Jay has also founded and served as CEO for other successful companies across the technology and internet infrastructure spaces.

Michael Klayko has over 40 years of experience in the data storage, computer, technology and telecommunications industries. During his tenure as CEO of Brocade, he grew company revenue to over US$2.2 billion. Additionally, he has held leadership and executive positions at leading technology companies including Rhapsody Networks, McDATA Corporation, EMC Corporation, Hewlett Packard, and IBM.

Michael brings a comprehensive understanding of the technology and network solutions industry coupled with extensive experience as a director of other publicly listed technology companies. He is an Operating Executive at Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment firm. Currently Michael serves as the Chairman of Star Compliance and Baxter Planning and is a board member of Process Unity and CE Broker.

Glo Gordon has more than 20 years of global leadership experience across business operations, strategy, sales and revenue growth in the technology sector, having held senior executive roles with leading technology companies including MATRIXX Software, Cisco, Oracle, SAP, and Xerox.

In 2020, Glo was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Board Director of MATRIXX Software, a Silicon Valley-based leader in 5G digital commerce solutions, serving until its acquisition by Amdocs in December 2025.

Before joining MATRIXX, Glo served as Chief Revenue Officer of Jasper, a Silicon Valley Internet of Things (IoT) platform company, where she led Sales, Marketing and Customer Success. Jasper was acquired by Cisco in 2016 for US$1.4 billion. Following the acquisition, Glo joined Cisco as Vice President and General Manager, IoT Sales and Marketing, with global responsibility for the growth, profitability and strategic direction of Cisco’s IoT business.

Earlier in her career, Glo spent 10 years with Oracle, most recently as Group Vice President, Worldwide BSS/OSS Applications Sales, where she led global sales for Oracle’s Communications Business Unit and contributed to double-digit growth in recurring revenue across telecommunications and enterprise customers.

Mohit Lad brings extensive experience in networking, cloud infrastructure and digital innovation. He is the co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of ThousandEyes, the world’s leading cloud, SaaS and internet visibility platform, which was acquired by Cisco in 2020.

Following the acquisition, Mohit joined Cisco as Senior Vice President of Network Assurance, where he was responsible for scaling ThousandEyes’ capabilities globally, integrating multiple acquisitions, and growing the business fivefold. He is widely recognised for his deep technical expertise, entrepreneurial leadership and contribution to the networking industry, including serving on the Program Committee of the North American Network Operators’ Group (NANOG), one of the world’s leading forums for internet infrastructure and network operators.

Mohit holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has also served on the Board of Directors of Groove, Inc., reflecting his ongoing passion for innovation, technology leadership and solving complex business challenges.

Jon Gidney has more than 30 years of experience in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets advisory across a broad range of industry sectors. Throughout his career, he has been a trusted adviser to Australian and international boards and CEOs on strategy, governance, capital management and transformational transactions.

Jon is currently a Non-Executive Director of Dexus Funds Management Limited and Cettire Limited, Non-Executive Chair of FNZ (APAC) Group of Companies, and a Member of the Australian Takeovers Panel.

Prior to his current roles, Jon held a number of senior leadership positions in investment banking, including Vice-Chairman, Banking Capital Markets & Advisory at Citi, and Senior Adviser and Vice Chairman at Greenhill.

Earlier in his career, he spent more than a decade at JPMorgan, including as Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, Australia, where he advised on many of Australia’s largest and most complex transactions across the financial services, real estate, consumer and natural resources sectors.

Jon holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance from FINSIA. He is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (FCA), and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).

Celia Pheasant is an experienced company secretary and technology lawyer with a strong background in corporate governance across 21 jurisdictions. In her current role as Special Counsel & Company Secretary at Megaport, she manages the corporate governance requirements for the company’s global network of subsidiaries.

Celia began her career in telecommunications law at Freehills and has since held several senior in-house legal positions, most recently at SUBCO, a leading Australian digital infrastructure company.

Celia holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts (Jurisprudence) from the University of Adelaide, as well as a Master of Law and Management from the University of New South Wales.