Corporate News

Pete brings in-depth experience as an operationally-focused international Group CFO and Regional Managing Director to EkkoSense, and his proven international leadership and financial management expertise will be instrumental in driving the company’s next key growth phase. His appointment follows EkkoSense’s recent addition of Adrian Barker from Vertiv as Key Account Director, and also of data centre expert Mark Acton to the company’s board as a non-executive director.

I’m not sure whether branded polo shirts qualify as Riviera Style, but it was certainly more work than play as EkkoSense attended this year’s Datacloud Global Congress & Awards in Monaco last week.

Mark brings over 25 years’ senior global data centre operations and consulting experience, both in senior executive and non-exec roles. He spent the last seven years as Head of Data Centre Technical Consulting with CBRE Global Workplace Solutions, where he was responsible for ensuring that the company’s DCS service offering set the data centre sector’s highest possible benchmarks.

EkkoSense has announced that it has become a supporter of the Infrastructure Masons (iM) Scholarship Fund, set up to help bridge the talent gap in the digital infrastructure sector. The iM Scholorship fund supports educational programs, funds scholarships and seeks to help to define the digital infrastructure job ladder to support the evolving needs of industry sector businesses.

EkkoSense has appointed data centre sector business development leader Adrian Barker as its Key Account Director. Adrian joins EkkoSense from global critical infrastructure solutions firm Vertiv, where as Senior Director for Business Development he was responsible for executing the company’s solutions strategy and driving growth across the entire Vertiv portfolio. Before that he spent seven years with RF Code, building the team that delivered the company’s first $1m+ account in the EMEA region before serving as RF Code’s General Manager for EMEA.

First demonstrations of EkkoSoft Critical V5 – the only DCIM-class SaaS solution to embed best practice thermal expertise and guaranteed cooling energy savings and the world’s first software-only data centre performance optimisation capability

EkkoSense has launched a major partner recruitment drive to help accelerate its expansion plans – both in the UK and internationally.

I’m looking forward to attending next week’s Kickstart Europe Conference in Amsterdam. It’s Europe’s largest data centre industry event, and also a great way to meet up with colleagues, clients and potential customers and get a sense of how our market will evolve through 2019 and beyond.