William Panian serves as Vice President of Development and Construction at Aphorio Carter, bringing more than three decades of experience leading large-scale operations, capital programs, and high-reliability environments for global enterprises to the company.
Prior to Aphorio Carter, Mr. Panian served as the IBX Operations Director at Equinix, where he was responsible for the end-to-end operations of five major data centers in the Atlanta metro area (AT1–AT5), leading a team of over 50 professionals across facilities, engineering, and site operations. Mr. Panian oversaw all facets of operational performance including capacity management, infrastructure
expansion, budgeting, talent development, and cross-functional alignment with sales to maximize site revenue. Under his leadership, the Atlanta portfolio has delivered significant operational results, including a 22% increase in site revenue, deployment of over 3MW of new customer load, a 15% reduction in PUE, and the successful execution of more than $20 million in infrastructure and capacity expansion projects.
Prior to Equinix, Mr. Panian spent 19 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he held multiple leadership roles, most recently as Director of Data Center Support Services for North America. In this role, he led several mission-critical towers of service including Data Centers, Major Incident Management (MIM) and Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity. He managed a blended global team of PwC staff and third-party providers, supporting operations across the Americas and key global regions.
At PwC, he reduced annual facilities operating budgets by approximately $2 million (10%), achieving seven consecutive years of budget reductions while extending the life of infrastructure well beyond standard lifecycles through disciplined preventive
maintenance and operational excellence. As leader of PwC’s Major Incident Management function, Mr. Panian transformed incident communcations, governance, and escalation models—cutting initial notification times by 50%, improving executive level visibility, accelerating service restoration, and
strengthening root-cause analysis. He also played a key role in establishing a Global MIM operating model aligned to PwC’s One IT vision and advancing a regionally aligned disaster recovery posture across the Americas.
Mr. Panian holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University. His professional credentials include Certified Energy
Manager (CEM) and LEED AP (BD+C).