Ashley Davis, non-executive director at Infinity
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK data center operator Infinity announced on Monday it has named Ashley Davis its new non-executive director.
This is the latest in a handful of appointments for Infinity in the last month, which includes Nigel Stevens as chief marketing officer, Ian McKenzie its new chairman, and John Belton as its delivery director.
According to the press release, Davis is a business evangelist, university lecturer and recognized global specialist in the design, build and operability of data centers.
He will use this knowledge and experience to provide insight and momentum to the company’s entry into additional vertical markets.
Davis has a considerable amount of global operations experience as a result of past executive assignments at JPMorgan Chase, CS Technology, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley where he was working with CIO and CEO communities.
In addition to this, he serves on advisory boards including co-chairperson of the Open Data Centre Alliance regulatory and environmental working group, chairman of four years for the Broadgroup awards panel, IET Sector ICT development panel, member of the UK Intellect Data Centre Council and advisory board member to Power Assure.
He als so serves on industry working groups for organizations such as the IET, Intellect’s Data Centre Council, ODCA and Power Assure and has achieved awards for data center operators such as the 2009 Uptime Institute Top 100 Green Companies.
“Ashley is passionate about the data center industry and he’s one of those exceptional individuals whose deep knowledge and extensive hands-on experience is matched by a rare blend of strategic, commercial and communication skills,” said Martin Lynch, CEO at Infinity. “In his appointment, we have complemented our already formidable senior management team and brought client-side representation to our board. “Ashley brings extremely valuable insights from some of the world’s most demanding global financial services organisations. This will be instrumental in our future agility as an organization as well as the ever growing demands on service, skills and transparency.”
During his career, Davis has been responsible for the technology and infrastructure design of 4 million square feet of corporate HQ buildings, 1 million square feet of tier III/IV data centers and the managed global strategy and architecture for a 1.5 million square foot data center portfolio.
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