Josh Hoops
Co-Founder & CEO
Josh spent 27 years in the United States Navy, a career that culminated as Executive Officer during the construction and commissioning of a nuclear submarine — where a missed detail is measured in lives, not schedule slips. He came up as a submarine officer and nuclear engineer, running some of the most demanding systems ever built, in the one environment that offers no second chance and no way out. "Protect what cannot fail" isn't a tagline for Josh; it's the operating principle he lived under and on the ocean for nearly three decades. He carried it onto the data center floor without changing a word.
Transitioning into mission critical infrastructure, Josh led and scaled professional services divisions serving hyperscalers, cololocation providers, and enterprise owners worldwide — building one global delivery organization 5x to more than 130+ people in two and a half years, and overseeing the commissioning of 1,500+ megawatts of critical capacity. An MBA and PMP, he pairs that commercial and program discipline with a transformational leadership style grounded in vulnerability-based trust, disciplined execution, and the courage to stop a project when something isn't right. That courage — and that standard — is the DNA of Anchor's culture.
Jennifer Lauria Clark
Co-Founder & COO
Jennifer built her career in environments where "what cannot fail" is measured in human consequences. She came up through pharmaceutical operations — where contamination isn't inconvenient, it's dangerous — bringing an industrial engineer's discipline to validation and process rigor. Over more than thirteen years at a leading mission critical professional services firm, she built and scaled the accounts and delivery teams behind some of the industry's most complex commissioning programs. Across 23+ years, one standard has never moved: the medication reaches the patient. The hospital system stays online. People stay connected when it matters most. Every time.
Jennifer has led commissioning, QA/QC, and operational readiness programs for data centers and mission critical facilities at global scale. She brings a rare combination of process discipline, technical depth, and the human leadership that keeps teams performing when the pressure is highest — at the end of the line, when the last 10% demands 90% of the effort. She built AMC's operating engine to make that standard repeatable, not accidental.
The Drive Behind the Team
Our Motivation
The Foundation
We Didn't Learn Standards. We Lived Them.
Between us, we've operated in nuclear submarines, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and mission critical infrastructure at a global scale. The disciplines are different. The stakes are identical. We built Anchor Mission Critical on what those careers taught us: that culture, process, and the courage to hold the line are the only things that reliably protect what cannot fail.
The Experience
Mission Critical Operations at Scale
Between us, we've served hyperscalers, colos, and enterprise owners across the globe — building teams, managing complex stakeholder environments, and delivering commissioning programs where schedule pressure and competing priorities are the constant. We've seen exactly where continuity breaks down between design, construction, commissioning, and operations. We built Anchor Mission Critical to close that gap.
The Realization
Eight Firms. One Clear Gap.
Between us, we've worked inside eight professional services firms across six different industries in over 30 countries. We saw the same problems repeat — B-teams on critical projects, operators handed systems without training, design intent lost in translation, and leadership that managed by consensus when decisiveness was the only currency that mattered.
Work With Us
Ready to work with people
who own it?
Whether you're a data center owner evaluating commissioning partners, a hyperscaler who's tired of B-team delivery, or a mission critical professional ready to join a firm built differently — let's talk.