Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has appointed Ayotunde Coker as its new CEO.<\/p>\n
OADC said Coker’s leadership would support and accelerate the construction and operation of a pan-African network of Tier III certified data centre facilities and a unique core-to-edge open-access ecosystem.<\/p>\n
“This is a dynamic period for businesses in Africa, with transformation driving rapid expansion of the continent’s digital infrastructure,” Coker said regarding his appointment as CEO.<\/p>\n
“I am excited to be joining OADC, which is set to play a huge role in establishing and growing the pan-African digital infrastructure and cloud ecosystem that will underpin this expansion.”<\/p>\n
Coker said OADC would support cloud operators, content providers, the wholesale community, and major enterprises in extending their global reach and operations.<\/p>\n
Coker has more than 35 years of international experience in the industry. For the past eight years, he has worked as CEO and managing director of Rack Centre \u2014 a carrier-neutral Tier III data centre in Lagos, Nigeria.<\/p>\n
Coker has elected to remain in Lagos, a somewhat central geographical location in Africa and the site of OADC’s latest Tier III open-access data centre.<\/p>\n
“I am absolutely delighted to welcome Tunde as CEO of Open Access Data Centres at this critical period in the company’s development,” WIOCC Group CEO Chris Wood said.<\/p>\n
“Tunde’s depth and breadth of experience and leadership, together with his stature and contacts in the African data centre industry will, I’m sure, be instrumental in ensuring the company’s success.”<\/p>\n
Ayotunde Coker will perform his duties from Lagos, Nigeria, the location of Open Access Data Centres’ latest facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":451234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[79524,78262,79526],"class_list":["post-451232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-ayotunde-coker","tag-open-access-data-centres-oadc","tag-rack-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451240,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451232\/revisions\/451240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}