Daryl Seaton

Daryl is one of the co-founders of VIRTUS Data Centres, a business that has grown from a standing start in 2008 into a leading European colocation provider today. As CFO, Daryl has grown the business from its initial 4MW facility, to now being the number one London data centre provider, with c180MW of live facilities in London and, more recently, marking VIRTUS’ first expansion into mainland Europe, plans to build two mega campuses in Berlin.

His leadership of the Finance Team has seen several key milestones across both equity and debt capital raising including the most recent acquisition in December 2022, seeing Macquarie Asset Management take a 40 percent stake to become a significant minority shareholder in VIRTUS alongside majority owner STT GDC.

Daryl started his career in JP Morgan where he gained his CFA qualification, then moved into Private Equity, working for 3i Plc, and then HBOS before working in a property development company. His 25 years of experience, including 15 in the data centre sector, spans a wide spectrum of investment, fund-raising and management across multiple geographies and sectors.