AtlasEdge announced another addition to its executive leadership team today, with the appointment of Mark Sokol as Chief Technology Officer.
Sokol joins from Google, where he most recently served as the Senior Director of Infrastructure across various posts in North America, APAC and EMEA. He is widely respected as a thought leader in IT infrastructure and has been at the forefront of networking and data centre trends over the past two decades.
Before Google, Sokol worked in leadership positions at Lumen Technologies. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia and has completed executive education programs from the University of Pennsylvania and University College Dublin.
At AtlasEdge, Sokol will provide key technical and strategic support to the CEO and executive leadership team. He will be responsible for leading the development and delivery of all AtlasEdge’s products and services as the company establishes and expands its product portfolio.
About AtlasEdge
AtlasEdge is a leading European Edge data centre platform with operations across 12 countries. Our distributed data centre portfolio allows customers to plan and shape their technology and network infrastructure to meet the growing requirements for lower latency, higher performance and localized solutions. Established in 2021, AtlasEdge is backed by a joint investment from Liberty Global, a world leader in converged broadband, video and mobile communications and an active investor in cutting-edge infrastructure, content, and technology ventures, and DigitalBridge, a leading global investment firm dedicated to digital infrastructure. Our portfolio includes data centres in growing markets across Europe, including Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Hamburg, London, Leeds, Madrid, Manchester, Milan, Paris, Vienna, and Zurich. In February 2023, AtlasEdge successfully acquired Datacenter One, in Germany, which includes state-of-the-art data centres in Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, and Leverkusen.