The Servato Team
The Servato team brings significant executive-level leadership from the telecommunications, network power, and information technology sectors. The team also has decades of experience starting, developing and operating new businesses, from venture-backed startups to innovative projects inside Fortune 500 enterprises.
The team embodies entrepreneurial spirit and thinking and is driven to develop solutions that streamline and improve our customers’ operations.

Chris Mangum
Chief Executive Officer

Eric Hedlund
Chief Sales Officer

Dorion Carr
Chief Technology Officer

Roy Clingman
Chief Business Development Officer

Chris Mangum
President & CEO
Chris Mangum is responsible for setting corporate strategic direction and managing operations of Servato. Chris a seasoned leader and entrepreneur with extensive experience in strategy, business development, M&A, innovation and entrepreneurship across a broad range of business models. From 2007 to 2012, Chris led corporate strategy and business development for CenturyLink where he was part of a leadership team that grew the rural telecom’s market capitalization from $2.5 billion to over $25 billion. While at CenturyLink, he led the development of the company’s growth strategy, championed the firm’s move into the data hosting / cloud space with the $3.2 billion acquisition of Savvis, and incubated highly profitable new revenue streams that represented the future of the business. Prior to CenturyLink, Chris led an entrepreneurial advisory firm that he co-founded in Atlanta called Venture X Group. At VXG, he helped to launch over 100 entrepreneurial businesses representing investments of over $150 million. Successes include SecureWorks (sold to Dell in 2011 for $650 million), MFG.com (Jeff Bezos portfolio company) and AirBand (nation’s largest B2B wireless broadband provider). Prior to VXG, Chris led a strategic development team for BellSouth, partnering with such early mobile data pioneers as General Magic, Palm, Compaq and QuickSilver. Prior to BellSouth, Chris was a military intelligence officer in the US Army. Mangum earned his BA in Psychology from Rhodes College (emphasis in economic behavior and organizational design), and his JD/MBA from Emory University.

Eric Hedlund
Chief Sales Officer

Dorion Carr
Chief Technology Officer
