ERGs offer employers a competitive edge by serving as a tool for attracting, recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and cultivating leaders. ERGs can also aid employees in developing skills and knowledge critical to an employer's business, which can enhance the company's products and services. More broadly, ERGs are a proactive method of promoting diversity and an inclusive work environment while positively contributing to a company's internal and public reputations.
Join Angela Hood as she welcomes Bryan Darby and Rasheed Mustakeem from QTS Data Centers, a Blackstone (BX) portfolio company, as they discuss how QTS has fostered DE&I through ERG and Affinity Group initiatives.
About The Speakers:
Rasheed Mustakeem is the Director of Implementation Services for QTS Data Centers—a Blackstone (BX) portfolio company—responsible for the project management of all customer data center deployments as well as internal IT infrastructure deployments. He also serves as President of Community in Action (CIA) at QTS, the employee resource group (ERG) devoted to fostering diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at all levels of the company. Before joining QTS in 2014, Rasheed spent 15 years working in renewable energy as a business unit leader. He got his start in Management Consulting as an analyst performing oil and gas M&A due diligence.
Bryan Darby is the Vice President of Strategic Technology Initiatives at QTS Realty Trust based in Overland Park, Kansas. As a transformational executive, he has more than 25 years of proven success developing and propelling near- and long-term business impacting and expense optimizing transformational strategies to ensure the continued growth of the business.