iTWire - Equinix execs escalated

Equinix execs escalated

by Stephen Withers
Monday, 07 April 2008
! Data centre and Internet exchange service provider Equinix has promoted former MD of the company's Australian operation Doug Oates to the new role of vice president of sales for Equinix Asia Pacific, with Darren Mann promoted to fill Oates' shoes. Most popular skills tags .NET Active Directory C# Cisco Development HTML Infrastructure Management Network Oracle Project Management SAP SDLC SQL Server Support Sybase TCP/IP Unix VB.NET Web Services/SOAP XML Oates has been the managing director of Equinix Australia since 2000 and has over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications and IT industry. Mann was most recently sales director at Equinix Australia. He joined the company in January 2001 as a senior account executive. Previously, he held sales and management roles at IHS AUstralia and in the retail sector. "Doug and Darren have performed consistently in building Equinix's presence in Australia over the past seven years," said Samuel Lee, president of Equinix Asia Pacific. "With growing local and regional demand, their new roles ensure that our customers continue to enjoy strong support for their business needs as we continue to expand in Asia Pacific." Tags See All Tags Appointments Australia Data centres Internet People Stephen Withers Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now