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26.2.2024 14:01:32 CET | Business Wire | Press release

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Vantage Data Centers Names Two New Regional Presidents to Support Market Growth Amidst Booming Cloud and AI Demand

Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data center campuses, today announced the appointments of Dana Adams and David Howson who will serve as regional presidents of North America and EMEA, respectively. The company also announced that Antoine Boniface, who has served as president of EMEA for the past four years, will take on a new role as chief commercial officer for the region. These appointments come as the company enters 2024 positioned for another year of significant growth and expansion across the globe.

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Dana Adams has joined Vantage Data Centers as President, North America. (Photo: Business Wire)

Adams joins Vantage’s executive leadership team as president of North America, bringing nearly 18 years of experience in the data center sector to the company. Based in Denver, she will oversee the region’s growth, including market development, sales, construction and operations, reporting to Jeff Tench, executive vice president, North America and APAC. Adams was previously the chief operating officer for AirTrunk, a hyperscale data center provider serving the Asia-Pacific region. Earlier in her career, she held leadership roles at Iron Mountain and Digital Realty.

Howson joins Vantage as president of EMEA to spearhead the company’s growth, overseeing market development, sales, construction and operations across the region. A seasoned veteran with more than 30 years of international internet infrastructure experience, Howson recently served as chief operating officer at Congruex, a national end-to-end provider of digital network services. Previously, he served as CEO of Six Degrees Group and in several executive roles at Zayo Group LLC and Level 3 Communications. Howson is based in London and reports to Sureel Choksi, president and CEO.

Additionally, Boniface, who previously served as president of EMEA, has been named the company’s first chief commercial officer for EMEA. In his new role, Boniface will oversee site selection, market intelligence, sales and sales engineering, driving Vantage’s commercial strategy to expand with customers across the region.

“The additions of Dana and David come at a pivotal time for Vantage as we continue to scale our leadership team to keep pace with our customers’ exponential growth driven by cloud and AI services globally,” said Choksi. “I am thrilled to welcome Dana and David given the wealth of experience and leadership they bring to our two largest regions.

“In addition, we are excited for Antoine to become our first chief commercial officer in EMEA. Antoine has been fundamental to our success in the region, and this new role plays to his strengths and passion for serving our customers. David, Antoine and the EMEA leadership team will collectively partner to drive our next stage of growth.”

These leadership appointments come just three months after the company named Raymond Tong as president of APAC.

About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across five continents in North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

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