Meet the COLOTRAQ Team

Dany Bouchedid

Chief Executive Officer

Dany Bouchedid is a relationship-driven entrepreneur, leader and visionary with a proven track record of success in building, growing and managing multi-million dollar enterprises. In 1999, he founded and is currently CEO of COLOTRAQ, a full-service sourcing and consulting firm that helps companies and institutions source data center colocation, managed hosting, cloud computing, network infrastructure and other related telecom services in 140 countries. Dany has been published and quoted in various industry publications and has been a speaker at several industry conferences. He has served on several boards for both non-profits and corporations.

Previously, he was a relationship manager in Chase Manhattan Bank’s Technology Services Division where he was responsible for cash management, US dollar clearing, and FX trading back-office solutions to multinational corporations. From 1992 to 1996, he developed automated systems used for monitoring investment portfolios as a member of Merrill Lynch’s Corporate Services Group.

Dany is the founder and president of The Bouchedid Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization whose mission is to identify and evaluate thousands of charities and non-profit service organizations and rank them using our proprietary algorithm to determine which causes to fund directly. The foundation considers a multitude of variables including the focus of the charity, the urgency and direness of their cause, and the level of disenfranchisement and vulnerability of the group they service. The ultimate goal is to fund the most immediate and worthwhile causes that are affecting the most underprivileged and neglected groups.

As Adjunct Professor in Montclair State University’s School of Business, he has taught Strategic Management, Patterns of Entrepreneurship and Ecommerce. He holds an MBA in Finance and International Business from New York University’s Stern School of Business, and he has an active real estate license in the state of New Jersey.

Lou Peccoralo

Chief Operating Officer

Lou manages the day-to-day activities of the business. He is responsible for the development, design, operation, and improvement of the systems that create and deliver the firm’s products and services and for ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective.

A 25-year telecom industry veteran with broad managerial experience in marketing, sales and operations, Lou has served as Vice President of Operations for Cypress Communications, Director, Field Operations for WorldCom, National Director of Product Management for Shared Technologies Fairchild, and Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for JWP Telecom.

Lou is a sought after presenter at prominent industry forums. Most recently he delivered a talk entitled, “The Case for Data Center Services Is Strong in a Weak Economy”, at the Spring Channel Partners Conference and Expo.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Lauren Cleffi

Vice President-Global Sourcing

Lauren joins COLOTRAQ with over 20 years of client relationship management and customer service experience having worked for luxury brand giants such as LVMH and Tiffany & Co.  As our newest addition to the Channel Management team, she will be focused on our Elite Partner Program which provides the highest level of service and support to COLOTRAQ’s top agent partners.

She transitioned into the tech world with her most recent position as Customer Service Manager at MECA Electronics, a global RF Microwave component manufacturer.  In her role there, she maintained relationships with the engineering departments of large enterprises such as Lockheed Martin, L-3 Communications and Verizon Wireless.   She is also a Certified Telecommunications Professional.