Claude is the Founder and Managing Partner of Actel Consulting, a specialist Tech advisory firm to investors, telecoms and clouds across sectors including TMT, AI, data, software and digital infrastructure

Claude is also the Co-Founder and Partner of ITI Ventures, a strategic management company to Boards & C-Suite executives.

Previously, Claude was Managing Director and Vice-President at Ciena where he oversaw operations across APAC. He began his career in applied AI Research in Montréal, followed by Nortel Networks in various roles across North America, Europe, and Asia.

He is an acknowledged tech industry thought leader frequently invited as guest keynote speaker, judge, conference chair, or panel moderator at leading tech events worldwide.

Claude is an engineer by training, holding B.Eng. & M.Eng. (Speech Recognition) degrees from Ecole Polytechnique, and an MBA from McGill University, both in Montréal, Canada.

Bill Barney is Chairman of Asian Century Equity. During his 25-year tenure as an investor,

board member and CEO in Asia, Bill Barney assembled and managed some of the

strongest performing management teams in the region. These teams consistently

achieved the industry's highest growth rates for both EBITDA and revenue growth.

Most recently, Bill co-founded and is Chairman of Modularity, a pioneering company

dedicated to transforming the creation and development of large-scale undersea

communications networks through its American-built modular edge data centers and

modular cable landing station solutions.

Earlier Bill was founder and CEO of Turbidite which he sold in 18 months. Before that,

Bill served as Chairman and CEO of Global Cloud Xchange and Reliance Communication.

Prior to these roles, he spent a decade as CEO of Pacnet. He also served as APAC

President at MCI Worldcom, VP of AMEA at Global One (now Orange Business Services)

and held leadership roles at AT&T.

Across the telecom and technology sectors, Bill has been an advocate for regulatory and

industry change and a major proponent of Cloud Computing and Open networks. He

currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Governors for the Pacific

Telecommunications Council (PTC) and is host of PTC’s Digging Into the Future, a Vlog

talk show featuring discussions with tech CEOs from all over the world.

Over the past two decades, Bill has received numerous accolades for his industry

leadership including DataCloud Asia’s Thought Leadership awards in 2018 and Data

Center Achievement Award in 2017. Earlier he was voted Best APAC Telecom

Executive by CommsDay readers in 2009 and named 2008 CEO of the Year by

TelecomAsia.

Bill received his MBA from Columbia University and BA from Wesleyan University

Michael is a highly successful serial technology entrepreneur & pioneer with over 30 years’ experience in the telecoms & technology sector.

As Chief Executive, Michael Tobin OBE led TelecityGroup plc, a leading FTSE250 Technology company from 2002 to 2014.

He joined Redbus in 2002 delisting it from the main market to AIM, & then took it private, winning the London Business Awards “Business Turnaround of the Year” award in 2005. After engineering the merger with Telecity, & the acquisition of Globix he successfully re-listed TelecityGroup in October 2007 winning the accolade of UK Innovation Awards IPO of the year 2008 & the techMARK Personality of the year in the same year.

Subsequently he grew the business organically & acquired businesses in Manchester, Helsinki, Dublin, Sofia, Istanbul & Warsaw transforming the company from £6m market cap in 2002 to being a top performer in the FTSE250 worth over £2.5Bn, being recognized as Britain’s Most admired Tech Company in 2012.

Prior to joining TelecityGroup, Tobin headed-up Fujitsu’s e-Commerce operations in Frankfurt, Germany. Before that, he ran ICL’s Danish outsourcing subsidiary out of Copenhagen Denmark. He also held several senior positions based in Paris for over 11 years including Business Development Director at International Computer Group coordinating global distribution of IT infrastructure.

As a Non Exec Director, Tobin was instrumental in transforming PACNET in Hong Kong from a Sub Sea Cable operator to a successful Datacenter operator culminating in its sale in 2015 to Telstra for $800m. In 2017 he was the key driver of the sale of Itconic in Spain to Equinix generating over 7x money for Carlyle in just 19 months, and as a NED oversaw the sale of Datapipe in New York to Rackspace and Basefarm in Norway to Orange on behalf of Abry Partners.

Tobin has been involved in multiple PE backed Datacentre transactions around the world including Teraco in South Africa, ITConic in Spain, Basefarm in Norway and Datapipe in the USA. He currently holds numerous Technology Non-Exec Directorships around the world & is the Chair of AIM listed Audioboom plc and BigBlu Broadband plc.

Mr Tobin is Chairman of the Friends of The Loomba Trust supporting widows in India, a Patron and Founders Circle Member of The British Asian Trust, Founder of the CEO Sleepout event for Action for Children & has sat on fundraising boards of the Princes Trust, Cooperation Ireland & the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Mr Tobin’s charitable focus is primarily the education, welfare & empowerment of young people & children around the world.

In 2016 Mr Tobin slept in the streets to raise money and awareness for Action for Children, completed his Duke of Edinburgh Diamond Award, and raised over £100k running 40 Marathons in 40 consecutive days for the 40th anniversary of the Princes Trust. In 2020 Tobin trekked to the South Pole raising over £500k for the Brain Tumour Charity

Michael’s business & thought leadership have been widely recognized. He was named ‘UK IT Services Entrepreneur of the Year’ by Ernst & Young in 2009, 2010 & 2011; PWC Tech CEO of the Year 2007; London Chamber of Commerce 'Business Person of the Year’ for 2009 & 2010; In 2009 was named techMARK ‘Personality of the Year’; In 2007 & 2009 he was the winner of the DCE Outstanding Leader of the Year, & in 2008 won ‘Data Centre Business Person of the Year’ at the Data Centre Leaders awards. He was awarded ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Data Centre Industry’ at the Data Centre Europe awards & in 2011 received a Lifetime Achievement Award for services to the industry.

In 2005 he was named number 31 of Britain’s Top 50 Entrepreneurs & in 2014 he was honoured in the Queens New Years Honours List with the Order of the British Empire (OBE) medal for Services to the Digital Economy.

In 2016 he received business awards for Outstanding Non Executive Director of the year in the Best Business Awards 2016 and the Global Business Excellence Awards 2016, and Chairman of the Year at the Stevie Awards in the USA. In 2017 he was recognized as Datacentre and Cloud Influencer of the Decade in Monaco at the Broadgroup Industry Awards and named in Smith and Williamson’s Top 25 Power Individuals of Industry.

Michael has many motivational & Inspirational speaking engagements & in 2014 he launched his first book, “Forget Strategy, Get Results” to great acclaim, and his second book, ”Live, Love, Work, Prosper” was released in 2018. His third book, “Lifting the Floor” was released in 2020.

In 2014, David Liggitt founded datacenterHawk to provide a comprehensive view of data center real estate, with the goal of helping companies make better decisions. The platform launched in 2015 with coverage of primary markets in North America. Since then, our team and our coverage has gone global. We now track over 49 markets every quarter, and have experts in every region of the globe.

Quynh Tran is Deputy Head of Structured Finance, Americas at SMBC, with over 20 years of experience in the infrastructure sector, covering digital infrastructure, transportation, airports, water, power and social infrastructure. Quynh focuses on expanding SMBC's infrastructure platform through serving the financing needs of sponsors and developers for investments in North American assets. Quynh has led the build out of SMBC's coverage of the digital infrastructure sector, with a focus on developing the liquidity pool for this asset class. SMBC is a leading bank in the sector, structuring transactions for greenfield development, portfolio financing, securitizations, JV financing and acquisition financing across product platforms. Prior to SMBC, Quynh was an investment banker at Robertson Stephens where she specialized in the 'e-tail' and 'e-finance' sectors, providing M&A advisory, equity underwriting and equity private placements. Quynh earned a BA from Columbia University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Jacqueline is a partner in Milbank LLP’s Singapore office. She was previously resident in the firm’s Hong Kong office.

Jacqueline advises on a wide range of international corporate finance transactions and merger-and-acquisition transactions, and regularly represents sponsors, borrowers and lenders on complex cross-border acquisition finance transactions. In addition, she has significant experience with international debt restructurings in Asia. She specializes in structuring complex debt and equity transactions for clients both within and outside of Southeast Asia, and regularly advises many of the largest private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds, corporates, leading banks and financial institutions in their various transactions globally and in particular throughout Asia.

Miles Loo Jr., CRE, FRICS, joined Newmark Valuation & Advisory in 2017 in the Downtown Los Angeles office, where he serves as a Vice Chairman and the Global Lead for Newmark Valuation & Advisory’s Data Centers & Life Science group.

Loo Jr. is well recognized as the industry’s leading appraiser of data center properties. His experience includes advising private equity funds, institutional investors, large pension funds, Fortune 500 companies, cloud companies and Global IT conglomerates on investments in all types of data centers, including mission critical, disaster recovery data centers, colocation facilities, carrier hotels, internet gateways and life science properties. These assignments have involved data centers owned and/or operated by Fortune 500 companies across numerous industries as well as Uptime Institute Site Certified Tier III and Tier IV facilities; U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED Platinum, Gold and Silver buildings; and state and federal disaster recovery data centers. Loo Jr. has led valuations of large individual and portfolio valuations spanning multiple countries across six continents (NA, EMEA, APAC, LATAM and African regions) and has consulted on a number of the world’s largest data centers.

Co-head of Infrastructure Finance. Advises on complex project development, financing and M&A transactions, focusing on the energy, power and infrastructure sectors.

David represents sponsors, lenders, developers, multinational corporations and governmental entities in the development and financing of energy, power and digital infrastructure projects. He also regularly handles mergers and acquisitions, with an emphasis on deals involving power generation and digital infrastructure assets.

His practice encompasses the development and financing of data centers, towers, fiber, wind, solar, battery storage, biomass and power transmission projects, as well as natural gas, oil, LNG and petrochemicals projects. His work is recognized by Chambers, which quotes a client describing David as “practical and a problem solver, commercial and effective.”

In addition to his extensive experience in private practice, David served in a senior role at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), providing strategic policy advice related to national security and international development.

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Kirsty is a banking and finance partner with over 20 years of experience across the financial services sector focussing on corporate lending and leveraged finance.

She is a partner in our Financial Markets group in London. She has a great track record of advising a broad range of clients including financial institutions and debt funds and also corporate borrowers including multi-nationals and private equity houses. Given her wide ranging experience, Kirsty is uniquely placed to deliver pragmatic and solutions-driven advice whilst navigating high-stress situations and achieving goals on time.

She has a specific sector expertise in the Financial Services and the TMT sectors, in particular relating to Data Centres and heads the Simmons global data centre team.

Kirsty is recognised in Banking & Finance in Chambers UK 2023, Chambers and Partners. She is also recognised as a notable practitioner in the Banking & Finance: Mid-Market section.

Kirsty joined us in 2019 from a large international firm where she was head of the UK banking and finance team.

Pankaj is a senior partner and leader in McKinsey’s Technology, Media & Telecommuni­cations Practice. He advises CEOs of technology companies on their growth and M&A agenda and CIOs/CTOs on their cloud, AI, and platform transformations.

Pankaj globally leads McKinsey’s cloud infrastructure and data center work. In this capacity, he serves investors, operators, hyperscalers, suppliers, and energy companies across the data center value chain. Pankaj also leads a firmwide collaboration that brings several industry sectors and functional practices together to address the massive imbalance between the surging compute demand with innovative, sustainable, and energy-efficient digital infrastructure solutions.

Pankaj also leads McKinsey Technology’s enterprise platforms and architecture work. The enterprise platform work aims to deliver business value to clients from their investments in global platforms by adopting business back systems architecture, process design and workflows, and value-oriented program management. The architecture work is dedicated to helping clients adopt scalable and future-proof business, systems, technology, and data architecture. It helps CIOs and CTOs structurally reduce tech debt and modernize all layers of the technology stack.

Mark Chester is one of the leading lawyers who is experienced in the data centre sector.

Over the last 20 years Mark has immersed himself, and developed a market leading reputation, in the UK data centre sector.

During that time, the demand for digital data has grown explosively and data centres now underpin our digital economy - for corporate IT services, digital media, financial services, mobile computing, social networking and internet access. Mark helps the developers, owners and operators of data centres, the funders of them, and the enterprises that need or use them, to navigate their way through the spectrum of legal issues relating to an industry that is still in its relative infancy. He understands what is required to deliver commercially relevant advice, drawn from his experience in this sector. This allows him to focus on what's important, and quickly get past what's not.

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Waleed Saraf is a Principal Investment Officer and Regional Head for IFC’s TMT/Digital Infrastructure business in Asia Pacific, based in Singapore. Waleed has over 18 years of experience in sourcing, structuring, and monitoring infrastructure investments, across debt, mezzanine and equity products in emerging markets in Middle East, North Africa, Europe and Asia. In his current role, Waleed supports IFC’s digital business, focusing on business development across Asia Pacific. Waleed holds an MBA from London Business School.

Laurence G. Hainault is a senior managing director in Evercore’s strategic advisory business based in Paris.

Ms. Hainault has more than 25 years of experience advising telecommunications and telecom infrastructure companies and funds at Credit Suisse and before that at DLJ in London and New York.

Prior to joining Evercore in 2023, Ms. Hainault served as managing director and head of EMEA telecom for Credit Suisse based in Paris, where she was a driving force behind the establishment of its digital infrastructure advisory business.

Select transaction experience at Credit Suisse includes advising EDF Invest on a consortium acquisition of a 27% stake in Databank; OVHcloud on its IPO; KPN on the formation of the Glaasport JV with APG; Orange on the sale of a 50% stake in Orange Concessions to Banque des Territoires, CNP and EDF Invest; KKR Infra on the sale of its stake in Hivory to Cellnex; GTT on the sale of its Infrastructure division to Isquared Capital; EQT on the acquisition financing of Melita; OMERS on the acquisition of a stake in Deutsche Glasfaser and Inexio; and Omantel on the acquisition of a controlling stake in Zain.

Ms. Hainault holds a Magistère in Bank, Finance & Insurance as well as a DEA in International Economics from University of Paris-IX Dauphine and a master’s in business law from Pantheon-Sorbonne University.

Jing is a Senior Director in Alternatives and Strategic Transactions team at Nuveen. She leads the build out of the data centre subsector of Nuveen Real Estate’s alternative portfolio.

Jing joined Nuveen from CBRE where she worked in the Data Centre Solutions team and provided advisory services in the Data Centre sector across APAC region. Prior to that, Jing worked for six years at Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR/S&P 500), where she held several management roles in portfolio asset management team and investment team. She also served as the company’s spokeswomen in Hong Kong. Jing started her real estate career at Eureka Fund Management (now known as AXA IM Australia) in 2006, where she managed the finance function for an AUD $800 million commercial property and hotel fund as part of the company’s AUD $4 billion AUM.

Jing graduated with a Bachelor's of Law from Southwest University of Political Science and Law (China) and a Masters of Professional Accounting from Wollongong University (Australia) and she is a Certified Public Accountant.

Sunita Lukkhoo, a professional with an array of experience, currently holds the position of Head of Regional Representation for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Her journey within the European Investment Bank (EIB) has been marked by notable roles, including her prior role as the Principal Advisor in the Western Balkans Division and her leadership in the Global relationship for lending in Croatia.

From 2003 to 2020, Sunita demonstrated her expertise as the Country Manager for lending in South Asia & Pacific at the EIB, the European Union's financing institution. Her responsibilities encompassed originating, structuring, and executing intricate financial transactions across a spectrum of sectors, such as energy, renewable energy, energy efficiency, climate change mitigation and adaptation, water, manufacturing, and foreign direct investment, among others. Sunita expertly navigated partnerships with sovereign entities, public organizations, corporations, and financial institutions. Her leadership extended to overseeing in-house teams of engineers, economists, and legal experts dedicated to project due diligence and transaction execution.

Shant leads PwC's Technology Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) practice, focusing on Digital and Technology value creation within M&A transactions.

Shant has deep knowledge and broad experience in delivering digital and technology-driven value in M&A, including buy/sell, IPOs, JVs, carve-outs, and integrations. He has more than 20 years of global M&A experience as a technology M&A advisor and investment banker, principal tech-sector investor, and technology and management consultant. Shant has advised on the technology aspects of over 300 deals across North America, UK/Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific for some of the world’s leading private equity firms, Canadian pension funds, and strategic buyers.

Shant’s focus involves an integrated approach to M&A advisory across the commercial, strategic, financial, and operational impacts of technology, focused on enhancing value, accelerating transition timelines, and mitigating execution risks.

Shant holds dual degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario, as well as a Masters in Finance (Corporate Finance) from the London Business School.

Rodrigo has extensive practice and experience in Latin American trade affairs, ESG and advocacy at the international, national and sub-national levels. In addition to serving as Impetus' Managing Partner, Rodrigo is Chairman of the Business Council for International Relations and Foreign Trade of the Federation of Industries of Rio de Janeiro (FIRJAN) and the Employers' Union of Rubber Industries of Rio de Janeiro (SINDBORJ).

Rodrigo holds a Master's degree in Public International and European Law from the University of Paris-X Nanterre and a Bachelor's degree in Law and Political Science from the same university.

Brian Moon is CEO of the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC). Prior to joining PTC, he held a variety of roles over a span of 15 years at the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). He was the vice president of sales and business development at CTA, where he led the sales and business development team for CTA and CES, driving growth and industry engagement for the world’s most influential technology event. Previously he was vice president of international sales from 2014 to 2020 and national accounts manager from 2003 to 2009.

In addition to his two tenures at CTA, Brian was also vice president of sales, convention and allied membership with the National Restaurant Association, and manager of industry relations and exhibits at the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses.

Brian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Professional and Technical Communication with a concentration in Marketing from Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a member of the International Association of Exhibition and Events (IAEE) and is certified in exhibition management (CEM).

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Dr. Ben Happel is the founding Partner of Altman Solon’s Singapore team and is a leader of the firm’s engagement with Telecommunications, Media, and Technology (TMT) clients in the Asian-Pacific (APAC).

Ben has been working with Altman Solon since 2003 and has spent over a decade in South-East-Asia. He has extensive experience in advising investors and lenders in the TMT space in APAC and globally, supporting them in their commercial and technical due diligence processes. His work includes market, competitive, and business plan assessments for data center operators, fixed line, tower, and mobile operators and go-to-market and network deployment strategies for fiber players.

Ben studied business administration and law in Germany (Passau), and the US (UC Berkeley). He holds an MBA from the university of Passau and a PhD in International Management from the Asia Research Centre of the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in Switzerland.

Afonso Salema is a visionary leader in energy, infrastructure, and investment banking, with over 15 years of experience driving transformative projects. He is the founder of TerraByte Data Centers, a forward-thinking venture focusing on sustainable data center developments across Europe.

Previously, as the founder and CEO of Start Campus, Afonso spearheaded the development of an innovative platform for green data centers, securing funding and delivering a €9 billion flagship data center project in Sines, Portugal. His efforts included pioneering energy-efficient technologies and fostering strategic partnerships.

Afonso’s extensive background includes senior roles at Cantor Fitzgerald, Jefferies, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he executed high-value M&A and advisory deals worth over €11 billion across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. His early career at EDP and J.P. Morgan further solidified his expertise in the energy and infrastructure space, with a degree in Industrial Engineering and Management.

Through ventures like TerraByte Data Centers, he continues to shape the future of sustainable infrastructure and energy solutions.

May-Ann is the Director of Access Partnership's Data Governance team and is concurrently the Emeritus Director of the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA). She has extensive experience in technology policy development, such as data governance policies, digital economy, emerging technology, and cybersecurity. She has worked with many global, regional, and local organisations such as APEC, ASEAN, PECC, INTERPOL, Council of Europe (CoE), the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), FELEBAN in Latin America, the ACCA, and the Asia Internet Coalition (AIC), on thought leadership development, government outreach, and stakeholder engagement efforts, such as the development of the ASEAN ICT Masterplan 2020.

She has been appointed to the Singapore Data Protection Appeal Panel 2019-2023, and sits on various international agency task forces, such as the World Bank Group’s Cloud and Data Infrastructure Private Sector Advisory Committee, World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Digital ASEAN Taskforce, the Data & Jurisdiction Team for the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network. A strong advocate for inclusive education, digital literacy, and sustainability, May-Ann also volunteers as a youth mentor with Advisory Singapore, and with nonprofit organisation Engineering Good, which focuses on assistive technology and digital inclusion of the underprivileged and disabled.

Victor Chiew is a partner at Herbert Smith Freehills currently on secondment to Prolegis LLC, the firm's Formal Law Alliance partner firm in Singapore. He has over 12 years of experience as a corporate M&A, investments and transactional lawyer, specialising in private capital and in the technology, media and telecoms sector, including digital infrastructure. He advises on a wide range of corporate transactions, including domestic and international M&A, joint ventures, minority investments and series fund raisings. He has acted for some of the most prominent global and regional names, including Apple, GIC, Goldman Sachs, Sequoia Capital, Grab and SoftBank.

In particular, Victor focuses on venture and growth capital, and in acting for investors into, as well as emerging and growth companies in the start-up ecosystem in Singapore, Southeast Asia, and India. His practice also includes significant involvement in artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies.

Qualified in Singapore as well as in England and Wales, Victor has spent several years practising in London and he has extensive experience executing transactions in both developed and developing jurisdictions, across both APAC and EMEA.

Alessandro is a Partner based in Analysys Mason's London office. He specialises in advising businesses on organic and inorganic growth strategies. In the last 10 years, he has completed over 200 assignments in more than 80 developed and emerging markets across six continents. His areas of expertise include telecoms commercial and technical due diligence, business planning, valuation, initial public offering (IPO) process support, investment opportunity scouting, market sizing and forecasting, spectrum strategy and valuation, cost modelling and telecoms regulation.

Alessandro has advised on some of the major transactions involving telecoms assets in Europe, working for both financial and strategic investors. His experience in this area covers telecoms infrastructure (access and long-distance fibre networks, towers, data centres, submarine cables and digital real estate), operators (mobile, fixed incumbents, altcos, cablecos and mobile virtual network operators), mobile money and fintech businesses, and vendors (hardware, software and telecoms infrastructure service companies).

Harqs Singh, Chief Technology Officer at InfraPartners, bringing a wealth of expertise in digital infrastructure, AI, and sustainability. Previously the COO of Technology and Data & AI at BlackRock, Harqs has deep expertise in technology, data, AI and infrastructure across global platforms. His experience across diverse sectors enriches his approach, promoting innovative business models and industry change. His leadership extends through notable industry organizations, building standards like the Data Center Maturity Model.

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Dr. Lara launched Sigma Economics on the back of over 20 years’ of experience as a competition and regulatory policy expert.

She has direct experience of influencing regulatory decisions at the highest level and understating what matters most to decision makers. Currently, she serves as NED on the boards of the Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority (a regulatory body) and Portsmouth Water (a regulated commercial entity).

Prior to launching Sigma Economics, Dr. Lara worked as a Partner and Co-lead of the Competition and Regulatory practice at Flint Global. She has also worked in senior roles at the UK’s Competition Authority (CMA) and Ofcom.

Lara has recently cofounded Simulnova Software to develop state-of the-art digital twin software applications. The firm’s mission is to help firms understand the complex, interconnected nature of their risks and identify the best solutions to mitigate them.

Kingston is one of the founding team members of Redpeak Advisers

Kingston has over 16 years of banking experience and has spent more than a decade executing high profile M&A and capital market transactions in the TMT sector within Asia. Kingston has keen interest in the digital infrastructure space and also spends considerable time connecting with key stakeholders in the tech community, both as an advisor as well as an investor

Prior to Redpeak Advisers, Kingston was Senior Vice President at Macquarie Capital where he was involved in origination and led transaction execution within the TMT team. Kingston started his career at Bank Negara Malaysia (the Central Bank of Malaysia) within their financial sector surveillance division

Kingston is currently a CFA charterholder. He graduated with 1st class honours from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 2003, with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours in Finance) degree.

Dr. Dmitriy Antropov is Co-Head of the Private Infrastructure Partnership Investments business unit, based in Zug. He is a member of the Private Infrastructure Investment Committee. Dmitriy is leading Partners Group datacenter thematic globally and has been involved in multiple digital infrastructure investments in the US, Europe and Asia. He has been with Partners Group since 2008 and has 18 years of industry experience.

Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked at UniCredit Group, L.E.K. Consulting and Apax Partners. He holds a PhD in world economics from Financial University, Moscow and Master’s in European Business from ESCP Europe. He is also a Financial Risk Manager.

An established figure in the Data Centre Industry with over 25+ years’ experience in Financial Services, Infrastructure and Data Centre Environments. Prior to VIPA Digital, Vijay was the Operations, VP at Digital Realty, responsible for the company's portfolio of Data Centres across Europe.

Vijay also spent 20 years at Morgan Stanley where he held a number of senior leadership positions including the European Head of Enterprise Computing, Global Head of Data Centre Portfolio Management and European Head of Enterprise Data Centres, where he transformed the team into a world class organisation, earning numerous industry accolades .

Vijay holds a BSc in Information Systems Design, and sits on a number of advisory boards within the DC Industry.

Tim Knowles is an experienced finance and M&A professional with significant expertise in telecommunications and emerging markets, serving both as an advisor and a principal. He has managed and closed over 20 deals with a cumulative value exceeding USD 50 billion. Notable transactions include Etisalat’s USD 5.8 billion acquisition of 53% of Maroc Telecom, Qtel’s USD 3.8 billion acquisition of Wataniya, PCCW’s USD 28 billion acquisition of HKT, and the creation of EADS valued at USD 15 billion.

His M&A experience spans across LATAM (Colombia, Peru, El Salvador), Africa (DRC, Ghana, Tanzania, Senegal, Atlantique Telecom, Maroc Telecom), Asia (Hong Kong, India, Malaysia), and Europe (UK, France, Switzerland, Finland). In addition, Tim has experience in capital raisings, having managed and participated in roadshows for the Maxis IPO, Synthes follow-on IPO, EADS IPO, and various debt financings, such as the complex demerger financing for C&W.

Tim has also gained significant business planning and operational experience from managing the strategic and business planning processes at Maxis (Malaysia) and participating in similar processes for Millicom across 17 countries. His board experience includes roles at iMena Holdings and several holding companies.

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Gaurav Dua is the Chief Executive Officer and President of Americas, Europe and Middle East operations for Twimbit. A seasoned consulting leader, Dua has 25 years of expertise.

Prior to joining Twimbit, Gaurav served as Partner and Global Head of Growth Analytics at Frost & Sullivan, where he pioneered the conceptualization and development of a ground breaking service line that evolved into a significant business unit. His distinguished career includes executive roles at CRISIL (an S&P Global company) and the HCL Group, where he collaborated with CXOs to drive transformational initiatives for Fortune 500 clients.

Throughout his career, Gaurav has demonstrated exceptional expertise in emerging technologies including Applied AI, Cloud and Edge Computing, Data Centers, Cleantech, and Cybersecurity

Daryl Dunbar is a leader and expert in Data Center Advisory and technology transformation. Daryl has over thirty years of experience helping regional and global companies accelerate their technological advancement and data-driven decision making.

ICG’s Data Center Advisory Practice provides a suite of services across the Data Center ecosystem including, Strategy, Business Planning, Funding, Investment, M&A, Infrastructure Development, Due Diligence, Technical and Business Audit, Process, and Operations. Our consultants have decades of experience in this market, having delivered projects in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

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Roxanna Plinsky founded Global Data Centers & Partners in 2020, a consulting firm for Data Center Operators and its ecosystem interested in expanding into new markets. She has more than 18 years of telecommunication, data center, and cloud experience. Roxanna has built an extensive global network of industry leaders via partnerships with high-growth multinational corporations and working and living abroad for many years.

Roxanna has held several senior management roles with organizations in the United States, Singapore, and Europe. Prior to launching Global Data Center & Partners, Roxanna served as VP of Hyperscale Sales at Yondr, Americas, NTT Global Data Centers, EMEA (formerly e-shelter), and Bridge Data Centres, Singapore. Further, Roxanna held a position as Hybrid IT Director at Level 3 Communications (acquired by CenturyLink in 2017), where she was responsible for all Data Center and Cloud transactions on the West Coast, United States. Level 3 Communications acquired tw telecom in 2017. Roxanna served as Alliances Director, managing technical projects between tw telecom and large Data Center REITs.

Roxanna relocated from Sweden to San Francisco in 1998. She completed her Computer Science Studies and later received a B.A. in Marketing and Account Planning from the University of Art, San Francisco. Additionally, she is on the Advisory Board of Big Data, San Francisco State University, speaks four languages, and holds U.S. and Swedish citizenship.

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Filiz Yılmaz works as an independent consultant, via her own business, GoodNets, a boutique consultancy. She provides strategic advisory in relation to interconnection, connectivity, network, datacenters, business, eco-system and partnerhip development as well as market analysis, Internet governance and policy matters. Among her clients over the years are Subspace, Asteroid International, PeeringDB, Namex and LEBIX.

Filiz Yılmaz was the Director of Business Development Interconnection EMEA at Equinix, during 2022-2025 where she lead the development of long-term interconnection strategies and ecosystems of interconnection, identifying investment opportunities and technology trends driving the evolution of digital strategies in the region.

Filiz has worked in the technology sector for almost three decades. She began her career helping to develop early internet services in her native Türkiye in late 90s. She created and delivered training courses for public officers in the city of Ankara and the Middle East Technical University, introducing these new Internet services and building capacity among end-users. Filiz was the author of numerous publications on operating systems and Internet usage and served on ethics committees working to accommodate Internet services and build governance and registration services around them.

Filiz subsequently moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands, where she has since been based and held senior roles at RIPE NCC, ICANN and Akamai Technologies.

Throughout her career, Filiz has been an active contributor in the Internet community. She has held various volunteering positions relating to Internet governance and policy matters, including the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG), the ICANN ASO AC (Chair) and IANA RC, RIPE Programme Committee (Chair) and Internet Society Türkiye Chapter as a catalyst during its formation. Filiz also volunteered on the Ethics Committee at the University of Amsterdam and is regularly invited to speak as a guest colloquia lecturer in the university’s System & Network Engineering programme on Evolution of Internet and Internet Governance.

Dharman Sury brings more than 25 years of experience in telecommunications and digital infrastructure.

He joined Brookfield last summer to oversee the funds investments into datacenters in Europe.

He spent the last 6 years as CFO of Data4, a privately-held european data center operator, growing the bottom-line of the company 2.6x, raising close to €1bn of debt, taking the company through two rounds of equity cycles and expanding the platform to Spain and Poland.

Priorly, Dharman spent 8 years with Orange, a telecommunications operator, in charge of corporate M&A in APAC and subsequently head of international sales for French large accounts at Orange Business Services. He started his career as a fast-track senior civil service with the French Treasury, moving then on as an advisor to a Cabinet Minister designing, and implementing innovation and R&D policies as well as the Minister’s communication and media strategy on these topics.

Dharman was nominated Top10 CFOs of French mid-caps by DAF Magazine in 2017 and Top50 Global Leaders in Data Center Finance in 2019 by Data Economy.

Dharman is a graduate of the Ecole des Mines de Paris and of the Corps des Mines.

Jonathan is a Partner at PMP in charge of the Global Datacenter, Cloud & Software Practices as well as the Private Equity Practice. He mainly advises infrastructure investors and Private Equity firms.

Jonathan started his career in Investment Banking at ABN Amro Corporate Finance in Paris and NYC and then worked 10 years at Orange in NYC and Paris in Corporate Dev roles and then VP M&A. Afterwards, he was successively the Head of M&A of 3 corporates: VimpelCom / Veon (#7 largest telco in the world) in Amsterdam, Cegid (#3 SaaS seller in France, owned by Silver Lake and KKR) and Carrefour (#2 largest retailer in the world). He closed more than 60+ deals in his career as a principal throughout the globe.

Jonathan has been a panellist in many TMT conferences in Europe and in the US and he graduated from HEC Paris business school and a JD from Paris I Sorbonne.

Gustavo has 25 years of experience in IT/Telecoms, working in multinational enterprise companies and global service providers. His skills combine relationship development and a technical background with his love of technology.

Gustavo’s career includes leadership and executive roles in operations, service delivery, project management, and sales at multinational companies such as British Petroleum, PWC, and Global Cloud Xchange. In addition to this, Gustavo also serves as a Fiscal Council member to the Brazilian IoT Association.

He holds an MBA in Information Technology as well as professional certifications like PMP, ITIL Expert, and COBIT Implementation. Gustavo is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and English, an asset that enhances his communication skills, technical expertise and knowledge of the industry.

Ainsley Woods is a Senior Research Analyst with Structure Research, an independent Toronto and Singapore-based research and consulting firm devoted to the cloud and data centre

infrastructure services market with a special focus on the hyperscale value chain.

Ms. Woods is based in Toronto and her coverage focuses on the data centre infrastructure market – primarily retail and wholesale colocation providers – but also interconnection, managed services and cloud infrastructure companies.

Ms. Woods is the lead author of the data centre and interconnection reports focused on select Canadian and European markets and regularly presents findings on Structure Research web properties and events such as infra / STRUCTURE and Structure Invest.

Ms. Woods holds a BSc in Marine Biology and Oceanography from Dalhousie University and a MBA from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.

Ioanna is based in Athens, Greece. She is currently CEO of Elite Global Consulting Services, a 360° strategy and business consulting firm, and also serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors at REDS S.A., Member of ELLAKTOR Group.

She is an accomplished senior executive with an extensive record of top-management positions, with extensive experience in investments, management, strategy and business development, as well as corporate / government affairs, private / public funding, lobbying, policy making, transactions and M&A.

Ioanna specializes in structuring and leading complex multi-million Euro deals and projects. She was previously the Investments & Development Director at DIMERA GROUP (infrastructure, tourism, media, F & B, and sports) where she led - inter alia - the negotiations and acquisition agreement of the Porto Carras companies at a price of €205m.

For several years, Ioanna has served as Advisor to various Greek Ministers of Infrastructure, Transport, Communications, the Minister of Economy & Development (responsible for Industry & Trade) and the Deputy Minister of Economy & Development, dealing extensively with national reforms and EU financing programmes.

She was the National Coordinator of the "Investment Promotion and Strategic Investments" EU SRSP Project under the World Bank, and the coordinator of the inter-ministerial team responsible for the national framework filming industry incentives (cash rebate, tax relief, shooting licensing acceleration).

As Director at the Office of the Secretary General of Telecommunications, Posts & Digital Governance, she was chief negotiator for the Closure of the Digital Convergence EU Financing Programme 2007-2014, achieving absorption of ~€1 billion, and for the shaping of the ICT EU Financing Programme 2014-2020, securing more than €1 billion of EU funding.

Ioanna has served as an elected Member of the Delegation of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE) for 5 consecutive terms, and as Vice Chairman of the Hellenic Association of ICT Engineers.

She holds a BA and an MSc in Computer Engineering & Informatics from the University of Patras, and an MBA from the ALBA Graduate Business School in Athens.

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Connell O’Neill is a Registered Foreign Lawyer (NSW) in Hong Kong and a partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He is head of the firm’s technology practice in Asia, advising clients throughout APAC and the Middle East on corporate and commercial transactions, privacy and cybersecurity, product counselling, and commercial intellectual property matters in the information technology, media and telecommunications sectors. Connell has been a key advisor on many major matters across APAC and the Middle East, including in China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, UAE and elsewhere, and has provided strategic commercially-sensitive advice to clients on a range of complex and emerging topics.

Connell regularly advises emerging and established businesses on major transformative transactions and assists his clients on navigating legal complexity when pursuing digital strategies whether as a traditional industry incumbent or disruptive challenger. This focus has seen Connell advise on many market firsts in the areas of blockchain, autonomous vehicle technologies, information infrastructure and digital marketplaces. He is also very active across the fintech ecosystem and has assisted clients on the launch of many innovative fintech platforms.

Connell is recognized as a leading lawyer and notable practitioner for his work in the TMT sector by Chambers Greater China Region. He is ranked in the TMT: Telecommunications & Broadcasting and TMT: Information Technology guides, in which interviewed clients praise that Connell is "attentive, responsive and has good industry knowledge of the telecoms sector," "is an outstanding lawyer and we always know that we will get the best result when we brief him in our matters," and that he "is a star and one of the key success factors in us getting this transaction pulled together when it was hanging by a thread." He is also recognized by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific which notes Connell’s practice is “unique as they have a deep understanding and knowledge on acquisition, implementation, maintenance and managed services for technology.” One client was quoted saying “Connell O’Neill is a knowledgeable professional with excellent work ethics,” with another saying, “I find him to be an expert in terms of technology acquisition, implementation, maintenance and managed services consulting. He has deep knowledge, is passionate and very innovative. He has a deep understanding of risks involved and its mitigations.” Connell has also been named in ALB's Super 50 TMT Lawyers 2024 and ALB's Asia Top 15 TMT Lawyers 2023.

Connell’s counselling practice focuses on complex and emerging topics such as cybersecurity and data privacy, where he is able to draw on his technical computer science background to quickly deliver valuable client insights and identify risk. In the 2021 edition of Global Data Review’s GDR 100 Elite, a list of the world’s top 20 data practices, it was noted that “Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher appears to have the strongest practice overall,” with Connell listed as a leading individual in the Asia Pacific region.

Connell graduated from the Australian National University in 2007 with a Bachelor of Information Technology (Computer Systems) and a Bachelor of Laws (with Honors). He received a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice of the College of Law, Sydney in 2008.

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