Ryan Holmes

Chief Revenue Officer

Raxio

Biography

A commercially-driven Chief Revenue Officer with over 25 years of progressive leadership across data centre infrastructure, telecommunications, and IT technology. Currently CRO at Raxio Data Centres, a pan-African carrier-neutral Tier III+ colocation platform, where Ryan leads end-to-end commercial strategy, spanning sales, marketing, product, and GTM execution across multiple African markets.

Ryan brings a rare combination of strategic and operational depth: from architecting hyperscale go-to-market programmes and negotiating large-scale lease transactions, to building carrier-dense ecosystems and shaping data localisation policy dialogue. His career spans Raxio, Africa Data Centres, Huawei Technologies, and senior commercial roles within the business continuity and managed services sector. He holds a Master’s degree in Data Centre Leadership & Management from Anglia Ruskin University and a BCom in Business Management from UNISA.