REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
June 13,
2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq:
EQIX), the world's digital infrastructure company™, today
announced the appointments of Fidelma Russo and Jeetu Patel to the Equinix Board of Directors.
Russo will also serve as a member of the Board's Audit Committee,
and Patel will be joining the Nominating and Governance Committee.
Effective June 9, 2022, their
appointments bring the number of directors on the Equinix Board to
11.
As Chief Technology Officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Russo
leads the innovation agenda and technology roadmap, managing the
design and development of the portfolio to deliver GreenLake
edge-to-cloud customer experiences to the market. She is passionate
about working with customers to help them reimagine their
information technology needs and deliver a simple, consumable
solution that helps them drive business results.
Patel serves as Cisco's Executive Vice President and General
Manager of Security and Collaboration. In addition to leading the
strategy and development for these businesses, he also owns P&L
responsibility for this multibillion-dollar portfolio. Jeetu
combines a bold vision, steeped in product design and development
expertise, operational rigor and innate market understanding to
create high-growth Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses.
Highlights/Key Facts
- Fidelma Russo was named Chief
Technology Officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise in September 2021. She has more than 30 years of
technology leadership spanning cloud services, machine learning and
analytics, global IT business services, servers, storage,
networking, backup and infrastructure.
- Prior to joining HPE, Russo served as Senior Vice President and
General Manager of the Cloud Services business unit at VMware. She
has also held several notable senior leadership positions at Iron
Mountain, Inc., EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun
Microsystems, Inc., and served on the Supervisory board of
Wolters Kluwer B.V.
- Russo holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical
engineering from University College Cork, a Master's in Computer
Science from Boston University, and
completed the Internet of Things Executive Education program at
MIT's Sloan School of Management. She
currently serves as a director of SBA Communications and sits on
the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Governance
committee.
- A member of the Executive Leadership Team, Jeetu Patel is helping to redefine Cisco's SaaS
business and strategy to further accelerate the company's
transformation and growth. There he is working to build world
class, subscription-based products that solve Cisco customers'
biggest problems.
- Prior to joining Cisco, Patel was the Chief Product Officer and
Chief Strategy Officer at Box, a role he pioneered. Earlier in his
career, Patel served as General Manager and Chief Executive of
EMC's newly acquired Syncplicity business unit. Other key roles at
EMC included CMO for the Information Intelligence Group and Chief
Strategy Officer, where he drove the organic and inorganic strategy
for the division's cloud and mobile growth. Previously, Patel was
President of Doculabs, a research and advisory firm co-owned by
Forrester Research.
- Jeetu holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Decision
Sciences from the University of Illinois,
Chicago, and currently serves on the board of JLL, an
American commercial real estate services company.
Quote
- Peter Van Camp, Executive
Chairman, Equinix
"We are thrilled to add two accomplished and seasoned
business leaders from world-class companies to the Equinix board.
We believe Fidelma's and Jeetu's careers and vital operating roles
provide the relevant experience and deep understanding to be a
tremendous benefit as we continue to create long-term distinctive
value for Platform Equinix. I look forward to working with them as
we support our customers on their digital transformation
journeys."
About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world's
digital infrastructure company, enabling digital leaders to harness
a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the
foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix
enables today's businesses to access all the right places, partners
and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix,
they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services,
deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.
Forward-Looking Statements
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risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from
expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors
that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to,
risks to our business and operating results related to the ongoing
COVID-19 pandemic; the current inflationary environment; increased
costs to procure power and the general volatility in the global
energy market; the challenges of acquiring, operating and
constructing IBX and xScale data centers and developing, deploying
and delivering Equinix products and solutions; unanticipated costs
or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have
acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive
significant revenues from customers in recently built out or
acquired data centers; failure to complete any financing
arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from
existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient
cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding
indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key
customers; risks related to our taxation as a REIT and other risks
described from time to time in Equinix filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission. In particular, see recent and upcoming
Equinix quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request
from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the
forward-looking information contained in this press release.
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