EkkoSense appoints Venessa Moffat to drive EMEA Channel growth

Proven data centre business development leader to accelerate EkkoSense’s EMEA channel expansion

EkkoSense appoints Venessa Moffat as EMEA Channel Partner Manager. Venessa will be 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 in 2024.

“EkkoSense represents a great proposition for the EMEA data centre channel sector. It provides partners with multiple ways to unlock additional value for their customers – whether that’s reducing energy consumption, optimising cooling capacity, or simply removing thermal and power risk,” said Venessa Moffat. 

“I have tracked EkkoSense since its formation ten years ago. The company’s EkkoSoft Critical software just keeps on getting better. Working with EkkoSense not only helps data centre operations teams to secure quantifiable carbon savings, but the latest 8.0 release also includes an embedded ESG reporting capability. Channel partners can use this to help customers easily deliver the ESG and sustainability reports that are now required across Europe,” she added.

Commenting on the appointment, EkkoSense’s Global Sales and Marketing Director, Matthew Farnell said: “we are targeting major growth from our channel operations for the coming year. Venessa Moffat, with her proven data centre channel expertise, is ideally placed to help us deliver on our goal. Over the next 12 months we look forward to further building out our EMEA partner network. Venessa will be instrumental in ensuring that our partners have everything they need to support this.”

Venessa Moffat brings almost 20 years’ in-depth data centre market expertise to EkkoSense, having worked in project services, product management, marketing and business growth roles for a range of organisations. These include including QiO Technologies, Uptime Institute, CenturyLink, Interxion and Sungard Availability Services. Venessa is an Advisory Board Member for the not-for-profit Data Centre Alliance (DCA), and also has an MBA in Business Administration.

EkkoSense’s EkkoSoft Critical AI-powered optimisation software delivers quantifiable reductions in cooling energy usage. With its light-touch, software-based approach and non-invasive nature, EkkoSense also helps data centre teams to secure immediate benefits with results achieved in just weeks, and project ROI timescales of under 12 months in many regions