Archives: Speakers

Keith Sullivan

Keith Sullivan is the Director of Strategic Innovation, Hyperscale. With over 28 years of experience, Keith is an accomplished business leader in the fiber optics industry with a specialty in data centers. He started his career in 1995 in a factory in England producing specialty fiber assemblies for high-speed devices in the telecom industry. Since… Read more »

Samuel Chukwukereuba

Samuel is a data centre professional with over 14 years of experience in data centre and Submarine Cable Landing Stations build, expansion and operations. He has worked for numerous global data centres including Equinix (MainOne) Kasi Data Centres, Imose Technology and currently with Digital Realty as their Data Centre Manager in charge of project implementation,… Read more »

Venessa Moffat

As EMEA Partner Manager for EkkoSense, Venessa is responsible for building out the EkkoSense EMEA channel operations, primarily targeting key Nordic, DACH, French and Southern Europe markets as the company forecasts continued strong growth. Venessa brings almost 20 years’ in-depth data centre market expertise to EkkoSense, having worked in project services, product management, marketing and… Read more »

Mike Meyer

Mike Meyer is Managing Director of Portman Partners and supports firms in the digital infrastructure space to find the best leadership talent. He has more than 27 years of experience across digital infrastructure, datacenter, IT, and telecoms businesses and as a seasoned director, founder, and entrepreneur, Mike has an established track record of evaluating and… Read more »

Mahmoud Bennani

Mahmoud is a Senior Associate at the newly launched Africa50 Infrastructure Acceleration Fund. He joined from Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), where he spent 5 years based both in Paris and Abidjan. He has 8+ years of global experience and 5+ years of experience in Africa. Mahmoud has experience across multiple sectors including Digital Infrastructure, Logistics,… Read more »

Guy Zibi

Guy Zibi is Managing Partner with Xalam Analytics, a boutique research and advisory firm focused on connectivity, cloud and digital infrastructure in emerging markets. Xalam provides the data and insights that support infrastructure, commercial and capital deployment in digital infrastructure across Africa, the Middle East, emerging Asia and Latin America. The firm’s investment reports on… Read more »

Mark Acton

As both a Chartered Engineer and Chartered IT Professional with over 25 years of experience in the data centre sector Mark has been a specialist in the field of data centre operations and technical management for more than 2 decades. During this time he has focussed on the delivery of business critical services from highly… Read more »