About AtlasEdge

AtlasEdgeWhat we do

What we do and why we do it

With our expanding reach of more than 100 sites across the continent, we’re disrupting the industry by bringing seamless, localised and ultra-low latency digital infrastructure to our customers.

Our facilities are physically located on the ‘edge’ of the network in the countries we serve – and providing proximity to this core network is critical for the technology of tomorrow.

We believe the edge is where the next wave of innovation happens, where we push boundaries and challenge convention. From the imminent rise of 5G to autonomous vehicles, to smart cities or virtual healthcare, we’re going to be there making it happen – in the most sustainable way possible.

Join us and advance to the Edge.

Meet our team

AtlasEdgeMeet our people

Meet the leadership team

Josh Joshi

Executive Chairman

Life at AtlasEdge: Josh is the Chairman of our board of directors, supporting our CEO to build and nurture talent, expand our operations across Europe and deliver strategic growth. He also serves as an operating partner at DigitalBridge, a shareholder in AtlasEdge.

Life before AtlasEdge: Josh has more than 25 years’ experience as a senior executive in the digital infrastructure sector. He was formerly CFO of Interxion, helping the business deliver 45 consecutive quarters of sequential growth. Josh began his digital infrastructure journey as founder and CFO of Storm Telecommunications, before becoming CFO of Telecity Group. Following a BEng in Civil Engineering at Imperial College, London, Josh spent eight years as an accountant and auditor, becoming a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Life outside AtlasEdge: Born and brought up in East Africa, Josh had lived on three continents by his teens. By 18, Josh completed his first parachute jump and became a glider pilot. Josh has a keen interest in widening participation into higher education and is a Trustee and Council member of St George’s University, London.

Giuliano Di Vitantonio

Chief Executive Officer

Life at AtlasEdge: As Chief Executive Officer, Giuliano sets the strategy for the company and leads the talented team that is creating Europe’s leading edge platform. He also serves as a member of the AtlasEdge board.

Life before AtlasEdge: Giuliano has almost 30 years of experience in the IT industry, including 17 years at Hewlett-Packard, where he held a broad range of positions in R&D, strategy, consulting, business development and marketing, and four years at Cisco Systems where he was Global Vice President of Marketing for Data Center & Cloud. In his most recent position before joining AtlasEdge, he was Executive Vice President for Strategy & Business Segment at Digital Realty. He had joined the company in March 2020, through the acquisition of Interxion, where he was Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer during a five-year period in which the stock price more than tripled. Over the course of his career, Giuliano has played a critical role in some of the most successful data centre growth strategies in the industry, through a combination of strategic insights and rigorous execution of carefully planned go-to-market initiatives.

Life outside AtlasEdge: Born and raised in Italy, Giuliano has lived in five countries and speaks four languages. He is now based in London, but with many customers being based in the US and his two children living in Florida and California, he spends a significant amount of time on the other side of the pond. Besides being a keen traveller and appreciating many forms of artistic expression, Giuliano is an avid sports fan, with an unbound passion for geniuses like Roger Federer. He occasionally hacks around the sporting grounds himself, where he conveniently attributes his poor golf handicap or his weak tennis backhand to lack of practice.

David Hall

SVP Colocation

Life at AtlasEdge: As SVP Colocation, David is responsible for defining and managing AtlasEdge’s core colocation products, including our unique building block approach to data centre design and construction.

Life before AtlasEdge: David has more than fifteen years’ experience in the carrier neutral data centre industry, most recently as a Fellow in the Office of the CTO at Equinix, focusing on physical infrastructure and the evolution of the Edge. He has also worked extensively in the US and Australia. Prior to focusing on the colocation industry, David studied Machine Learning at Edinburgh University, where he discovered a love for fine whisky, as well as software.

Life outside AtlasEdge: David lives with his partner and their Old English Sheepdog, Oppenheimer, in Brighton, UK. When he’s not thinking about the Edge, he can usually be found in the gym, on the beach, or exploring the Sussex countryside and its many excellent pubs.

Ian Hammond

SVP Operations

Life at AtlasEdge: As SVP Operations , Ian is responsible for Operations & Engineering, Security & Compliance and Operational IT at AtlasEdge. He oversees all AtlasEdge facilities, encompassing the delivery and support of our services to our customers.

Life before AtlasEdge: Ian has held multiple senior leadership and operational positions in data centre, telco, managed service, and technology businesses. Having worked for organisations large and small in both the private and public sectors, he brings a wealth of leadership experience, covering not only data centre and technology operations, but also business transformation and strategy.

Life outside AtlasEdge: Ian is an avid Formula 1 fan, which he has followed for more than 30 years. He has travelled all across the globe and spent four and a half years living and working in the Netherlands.

Henry Harris

General Counsel and Chief Development Officer

Life at AtlasEdge: Henry is responsible for all legal matters, as well as driving the company’s corporate development and M&A activities.

Life before AtlasEdge: Henry worked as Vice President, Legal M&A at Liberty Global. He managed the legal aspects of the European Corporate Development strategy, covering M&A across telecoms, media and infrastructure and more. He later became Managing Director of the Group Legal Function, working on public and private M&A transactions and outsourcings totalling in excess of €100bn. Before Liberty Global, Henry spent eight years as a corporate lawyer at Allen & Overy LLP, with a specific focus on Private Equity, and four years at law firm Lovells LLP (now Hogan Lovells).

Life outside AtlasEdge: Outside work Henry is an avid sports fan, with particular passion for cricket and rugby, and is an enthusiastic (if decidedly average) sportsman, in particular tennis, running and cycling. He also loves travelling when he’s able to get away.

Ron Huisman

Chief Financial Officer

Life at AtlasEdge: Ron leads all financial aspects of AtlasEdge, driving the capital allocation process. As CFO, Ron is responsible for maintaining key external financial relationships with shareholder deal teams and financing parties, as well as jointly leading the M&A execution function.

Life before AtlasEdge: Ron is a highly experienced finance executive with 20 years at Liberty Global, where he was most recently CFO of the Central and Global Technology & Innovation divisions. Prior to that, he served as CFO of the Dutch operations and the International Content division. Ron has managed more than 75 M&A deals – from analysis to deal negotiation, organisational integration and separation. He is a Chartered Accountant and holds an MSc in Business Economics from Maastricht University. He recently graduated as certified International Director at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.

Life outside AtlasEdge: Ron is a keen traveller and likes to spend his spare time in the mountains, or enjoying the Mediterranean lifestyle, preferably combined with spending quality time with his closest friends and family. Early mornings are Ron’s favourite time of the day to explore the outdoors.

Gareth Johnston

SVP, Growth & Expansion

Life at AtlasEdge: In his role as SVP, Growth & Expansion, Gareth is responsible for delivering the capacity to meet the growing customer demand for high quality data centre space. Gareth is highly experienced in managing multiple complex projects at any given time and thrives on building and running effective teams who can ably manage these challenging schedules. He is a huge advocate of embedding environmental sustainability in every aspect of construction to deliver the most innovative and efficient project delivery models.

Life Before AtlasEdge: Before joining AtlasEdge Gareth spent over a decade at Equinix, rising to the position of VP, Global Construction, responsible for managing an extensive global portfolio. He managed a team of 100+ construction professionals across different geographies, overseeing every aspect of real estate development, including financial oversight, forecasting and budget management. While there, he also created and rolled out a standardised and streamlined delivery experience for all customers. Prior to this, he served as Associate Director at Turner & Townsend LLP, working on multiple commissions across Europe, North and South America, managing high-profile office developments in Toronto and Sao Paulo.

Life Outside AtlasEdge: When he is not wearing a hard hat or examining a schematic, Gareth loves practicing football with his son, or getting out for a run or cycle ride. Having moved back to the UK from the US a few years ago, he also enjoys exploring and traveling within Europe with his family.

Wolfgang Kaufmann

CEO, Datacenter One

Life at AtlasEdge: As Chief Executive Officer of Datacenter One, Wolfgang is responsible for all aspects of the German business, which was acquired by AtlasEdge in February 2023. As part of the acquisition, Wolfgang joined the AtlasEdge Management Team and reports into Giuliano.

Life before AtlasEdge: Wolfgang has spent over 20 years in the data centre industry, across various senior positions. He is an expert in the planning, construction and operation of data centres and innovative infrastructure solutions. In 2016, he founded Datacenter One, helping it grow into Germany’s leading independent data centre provider, which included implementing the country’s first completely modular data centre.

Life outside AtlasEdge: When not redesigning data centres, you’re likely to find Wolfgang hiking or skiing in his much-loved Alps, or taking the opportunity to travel to a new country and culture.

Heidi Moen

VP Human Resources

Life at AtlasEdge: As the VP of Human Resources, Heidi is responsible for providing strategic leadership by articulating the needs and plans for the entire HR life circle, as AtlasEdge continues to grow and evolve.

Life before AtlasEdge: Heidi has held numerous senior HR roles, mostly within the software industry. She has extensive experience in developing and growing companies internationally through opening entities, M&A’s and building from the start-up phase to going public.

Life outside AtlasEdge: She is a huge outdoor fan – whether that’s walking, biking, hiking or skiing. She is also focussing on becoming a better golfer.

Dan Thomas

SVP Sales

Life at AtlasEdge: Dan leads all commercial and customer activities at AtlasEdge. He supports customers to solve new edge requirements in the growing AtlasEdge portfolio, as well as providing key insight to the leadership team.

Life before AtlasEdge: Dan spent 10 years as Senior Director, International at Interxion, leading global commercial activities. He succeeded in helping Interxion grow new customer segments with demonstrated year-on-year performance. He also supported a strategic African investment fund in M&A, building new data centre services. Dan holds a BEng in Manufacturing Engineering & Management from Loughborough University with a first class dissertation award.

Life outside AtlasEdge: Dan is a keen sportsman and enjoys playing tennis, golf and football. He has a passion for developing data centre technology in emerging markets through his previous involvement with African infrastructure investment funds.

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Susan Ashton

VP Security & Compliance

Life at AtlasEdge: As the VP for Security & Compliance, Susan reports to the COO and has strategic oversight for security, compliance and QHSE across the AtlasEdge organisation. She is responsible for establishing a hybrid security and compliance function that is capable of leveraging partner and supplier services.

Life before AtlasEdge: Having gained a BSc in Computer Science, Susan’s background is in technology. She has worked in both public and private organisations, serving a variety of high profile clients including financial, utility, FMCG and service sectors. Over the last 17 years she has built up extensive experience in Information Security, Compliance and Corporate Risk Management.

Life outside AtlasEdge: Aligned to her work environment, Susan is a Non-Executive Director of the SGS Impartiality and Advisory Committee. Outside the work environment she is a keen gardener, with an interest in Bonsi and growing her own vegetables. To relax, she regularly takes part in yoga classes, enjoys life drawing and pottering around antique fairs.

Mark Cooper

VP, Market and Business Development

Life at AtlasEdge: Mark oversees GTM strategy and engagement with customers to drive product innovation and the development of new strategic partnerships and initiatives.

Life before AtlasEdge: Mark has spent the last 30 years in the internet networking business, for both data centres and network service providers. Before AtlasEdge, Mark was Director of Interconnection Strategy and Development at Interxion and prior to that, EVP Europe at Megaport.

Life outside AtlasEdge: Mark is a keen amateur photographer with a collection of vintage 35mm film cameras. He recently rekindled a passion for music and is rebuilding his skills as a guitarist. Mark has lived in the Netherlands for the last 20 years.

Alonso Delgado

VP Corporate Development

Life at AtlasEdge: As VP of Corporate Development at AtlasEdge, Alonso is responsible for the origination and execution of M&A transactions and corporate development activities, driving the company’s growth strategy.

Life before AtlasEdge: Alonso has amassed 15 years of experience in investment banking. Prior to AtlasEdge, Alonso worked at Deutsche Bank where he served as Vice President in the Telecom, Media and Technology sector team in London. Prior to this he was Associate Director in the Corporate Finance team at Scotiabank Peru. Alonso also holds an MBA from London Business School.

Life outside AtlasEdge: Born and raised in Peru, Alonso has lived in three countries. Besides being a keen traveller who likes to explore the world with his family, he loves spending his free time at the beach, enjoying the good weather and recharging. Alonso is an enthusiastic sportsman (particularly playing football) and has a passion for cooking.

Mark Fisher

VP Client Services

Life at AtlasEdge: As VP Client Services, Mark is responsible for leading our Client Relationship, Service Management, Solution Design and Service Desk functions. These teams put customer relationships and experience at the centre, positioning AtlasEdge as the long term, trusted partner for customer’s edge colocation strategy.

Life before AtlasEdge: Based in London, Mark has spent his career working in client relationship management roles and managing teams across multiple European geographies and the US. Mark spent the previous eight years at Interxion, leading the International Client and Channel Relationship management team, and later the EMEA Business Management function.

Life outside AtlasEdge: Mark grew up playing football, spending time as a youth player at clubs like Peterborough United and Canvey Island, the latter where he played in the FA Youth Cup. Mark still spends time both playing and watching football, however, most free time is mostly spent with the family his four children at home.

Laurie Furst

VP Design & Construction and Head of Sustainability

Life at AtlasEdge: Laurie is VP of Design & Construction and Head of Sustainability, and is responsible for the design, construction, and sustainability strategies at AtlasEdge. The team’s focus is on ensuring we have an innovative, forward-thinking and sustainable design whilst always delivering to our high-quality standards and committed timelines for the various stakeholders and clients.

Life before AtlasEdge: Prior to joining AtlasEdge, Laurie worked for Google delivering hyperscale DC projects in the North of the Netherlands. Previous to this he worked for Mace, a UK based main contractor working for clients in both the commercial and data center environments. Laurie has a Masters in Sustainable Development from the University of Exeter in the UK.

Life outside AtlasEdge: When he isn’t throwing himself around at softplay with his two sons, Laurie is a keen sports fan (and ex sportsman!), particularly enjoying watching as much rugby, football and cricket as he can. He also loves snowboarding and hopes his sons will inherit this passion when they are a bit older!

Sasha Gruhn

VP Strategic Partnerships

Life at AtlasEdge: Sasha is Vice President within the Commercial team and is responsible for AtlasEdge’s Strategic Partnerships program. She helps drive commercial partner strategy and engagement to promote revenue growth and mutual benefits within the company’s partner ecosystem.

Life before AtlasEdge: Sasha joined AtlasEdge from Liberty Global where she was most recently responsible for leading the strategic real estate function, playing a key role in the creation of what is now AtlasEdge. Sasha is a qualified solicitor and spent six years working in Banking and Capital Markets with Clifford Chance’s London and New York offices before joining Liberty Global’s legal team.

Life outside AtlasEdge: A huge fan of a sunny holiday, Sasha loves to ‘get away’ from the AtlasEdge family sometimes to travel with her own family. She is also a passionate champion of junior talent, both in and outside of the company.

Barend Maassen

VP Project Management Office & Post Merger Integration

Life at AtlasEdge: Barend is Vice President of the Project Management Office and Post Merger Integration function at AtlasEdge, reporting to the COO. He is responsible for successful integration of acquisitions and making sure they live up to their deal value and integrate successfully, ensuring a positive impact to customers and ongoing business.

Life before AtlasEdge: Barend has 25 years of experience in the Telco and Cable Industry in Europe. He started his career with Nokia Networks in Netherlands and Finland where he held a broad range of leadership positions in Product Business Management, Account Management and Global Operations. He continued his career with Liberty Global, including roles in IT, Finance, Procurement and Performance Management. Barend holds a BSc in engineering and a MSc in Business Administration from Nijenrode University.

Life outside AtlasEdge: Barend enjoys sports, playing basketball and tennis, and snowboarding in the winter. He loves frequent travelling to his family home in Sweden with his wife and three kids where he enjoys the Swedish outdoor life and quality time with his closest friends and family.

Natalie West

Deputy General Counsel

Life at AtlasEdge: As Deputy General Counsel, Natalie is responsible for providing strategic legal advice across all parts of the AtlasEdge business, including Sales, Operations, Technology, Real Estate and M&A.

Life before AtlasEdge: Natalie has held multiple senior legal positions in-house, most recently Vice President, Commercial Legal at Liberty Global, providing commercial and technology focused legal advice on a wide range of M&A transactional activity. Before Liberty Global, Natalie had a varied career, training and practicing as a finance lawyer at an international firm and later working at several international financial institutions on project finance and technology roles in both Canada and the Netherlands.

Life outside AtlasEdge: Natalie loves travelling with her family to off-the-beaten track locations, and enjoys anything involving live music. In her next life, she plans to be a platinum-selling mega pop star. In this life, she settles for karaoke.

Paul Wiltshire

VP Sales

Life at AtlasEdge: Paul is VP of Sales at AtlasEdge, reporting to the SVP of Sales. He is responsible for the Account Management relationship with our customers to ensure that they feel as delighted today about working with AtlasEdge as they did on the day they signed the contract.

Life before AtlasEdge: Paul has spent 9 years at Virgin Media Business, where in his last role he was Sales Director of Technology Practice. He has a 25-year career in Sales and Sales Engineering across several companies in the Telecommunications and IT sector. His success is based on building trusted relationships with customers, suppliers & employees in which mutual success can flourish. With technology in his DNA, Paul brings a positive attitude to everything using his intelligence, strategic thinking, and intuition to establish a clear vision for what mutual success looks like. Paul holds a MEng in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Imperial College, London.

Life outside AtlasEdge: Paul is a sports fanatic, outside of work you will either see him running the beaches of Hayling Island training for his next event, cycling in the South Downs National Park, or playing golf at his beloved Hayling Golf Club, one of the few true links golf courses on the South coast, where he was a very proud Captain in 2011. Paul is passionate about diversity, especially in the field of Neurodiversity.

AtlasEdgeLooking after the environment

Building a sustainable digital society

At AtlasEdge, our vision is to empower a sustainable digital society by enabling infrastructure where it’s needed.

We believe in taking sustainability and environmental protection seriously, and are committed to ensure all our data centres, and operations meet a high standard for energy, carbon and water

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Certifications

AtlasEdge takes our operating certifications seriously.

All our data centres and operating networks are ISO compliant. Our certifications and accreditations reflect the quality of our operations and our security, as well as the energy efficiency of our European data centre network.

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