Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School Executive Education

The University Of Alabama In Huntsville

Everything Digital Infrastructure: Data Center, Tower, Fiber, Sub Sea, Renewable Energy; Investment, Development, M&A, Operations. Proven Global CEO/MD, Advisor, Interim, Lecturer, & Board Director. LinkedIn member #8152

Singapore

Delivering a full suite of services in the Digital Infrastructure space; Data Center, Tower, Fiber, and Sub Sea assets as well as Renewable Energy strategy, provision, and purchase. Active globally with a strong base in Asia, the fastest growing region globally.

ICG – Internal Consulting Group (Global)

Partner, Digital Infrastructure

The IME Singapore operates under the Foundation for International Management Education, which is a non-profit organization with HQ in Copenhagen, DK. We have been proving leadership education and courses since 1994, among others the triple accredited Executive Henley MBA program.

The IME Mini MBA programme is for executives, middle management, and team leaders who seek greater insight into their business. The programme is a unique combination of hardcore business disciplines such as Marketing, Strategy, and Finance and a continuous focus on leadership skills and personal development, with the aim to develop your leadership skills and personal strategy. The IME Mini MBA is highly manageable in terms of time investment.

IME - International Management Education

Senior Lecturer, Strategy

CXO Connect's mission is to bring an external viewpoint, informed by research and tempered by experience, to advise and challenge our peers to greater and more thoughtful performance. Our aim is to become a trusted advisor to all of our clients.

To achieve that we dovetail our specialist knowledge with your current state of maturity to achieve your objectives.

We use masterclasses, workshops and discussions as catalysts for change and mentoring and coaching to embed that change in people’s performance.

CXO Connect Ltd

Advisory Services Director

We3d no-code creative platform enables designers, artists and developers to combine 2D/3D/AR digital assets into applications and interactive design prototypes. We3d is software for AR modellers and designers that is easier to use than its competitive set, has greater functionality and is built for non-programmers. This makes it less costly, faster to use and more widely accessible by a highly creative and motivated audience. With our powerful visual interface, users can transform static designs into digital products that have a material business impact. With We3d, creative designers can finish projects the way they want.

We3D Design Studio

Co-Founder & COO

Subject matter expert on all things Data Center related - investment, infrastructure, development, M&A, rental, consolidation, etc.
Consulting and Advising small, medium, and large enterprises in Innovation, Strategy, Technology, Cybersecurity, and Digital Transformation. Providing strategic direction, fundraising, change leadership, coaching, and mentoring throughout the region and globally directly and through ICG & CIO Connect.

Data Center Expertise

Independent Consultant, Advisor, & Investor

ICG is an international provider of premium management consulting and project execution services delivered by a 21st century unbundled model. We help our clients by combining curated experts, publications, methods, learning and development, and services from a single global platform. When combined this A-Team of client and ICG components delivers a level of agility not seen from traditional models.

Principal, Data Center Advisory Practice Lead

Digital Realty focuses on delivering client-driven data center and colocation solutions by providing secure, reliable and cost effective facilities that meet each client's unique data center needs. Digital Realty's clients include domestic and international companies across multiple industry verticals ranging from information technology and Internet enterprises, to manufacturing and financial services. Digital Realty's 100+ properties are located across 30+ markets throughout Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.
Brought in to stabilise the region and provide local leadership after numerous recent leadership changes.  Provide Senior Leadership Team presence in region and regional representation back to US corporate headquarters.  Led all M&A and Portfolio activities. Developed and executed growth strategy for the region.
Director of all local entities across APAC and US, Hong Kong Joint Venture Board Director.

Digital Realty

CEO Digital Investment Management Pte Ltd, Senior VP & Managing Director APAC

Reporting to Group CEO, full P&L accountability for c.€80m line of business with 450 staff within €1.5bn corporation. End-to-end accountability for sales, portfolio, strategy, architecture, operations and people.

Achievements:
Significant restructuring and refocusing of the business to drive toward profitability and cash flow positivity; rationalize portfolio, focus on sales and customer experience, right-size and deliver automation.  Delivering customer solutions in ITIL framework.

About Colt:
Colt is Europe's information delivery platform, enabling its customers to share, process and store their vital business information.  Colt IT Services provides businesses with mission critical private and hybrid cloud solutions for their most important workloads, leveraging Colt's unique data centre estate and extensive network footprint to deliver a set of secure solutions.

Colt Technology Services

EVP IT Services

Group-wide responsibility for Business Planning, Long Term Portfolio Planning, Business and Corporate Development, Venture and Equity Investment, Partnerships, M&A and building an Innovation Ecosystem.  Revamped the long term planning process into a full strategic review, leading to the company's renewed focus on assets and product lines.  Asked to step in and lead one of the new lines of business.

VP Group Strategy & Business Development

Main Board Member and Venture advisor.

Innovators International are a collaboration of the world's most innovative companies.

Our members are Chief Technology, R&D, and Strategy Officers working together to maximize each member company’s investment in innovation. We gather privately, form business partnerships, share best practices, and participate in a set of focused practices to help each other excel at "innovation management” in order to drive consistent future top line growth.

Innovators International

Advisory Board Member

Now part of Community Health Systems, HMA owned and operated 71 hospitals and 461 clinics in 15 states.  As an interim executive, reporting to the Chief Information Officer, provided strategic leadership and development for the IT Department, including establishing ITIL framework and security, risk and other key IT policies. Created first budget model for the deployment of services on a virtualized infrastructure.  Responsible for developing the Enterprise Architecture and associated design and deployment schedule.  Led a team of engineers and analysts responsible for the national network and systems infrastructure connecting the hospitals and clinics and supporting the applications used by the clinicians and administrators.

Health Management Associates, Inc.

Director of Information Technology

Change Logic works with business leaders to overcome the challenges of significant market disruption. Our approach is based on the research of our founding directors, Professors Michael Tushman (Harvard Business School) and Charles O’Reilly (Stanford GSB), into the patterns of technological and market change. We apply a unique problem-solving method to help companies address gaps in current performance and capture new opportunities. We have applied this approach at IBM, Agilent Technologies, Raytheon, Freescale Semiconductor, BT Group PLC, General Dynamics, De La Rue PLC, Misys PLC and many others.

Change Logic

Associate Director

In a fixed term interim role at a £100M venture capital firm, identified potential investments, performed due diligence and negotiated investments in growth companies across the European Market, leveraging specialist knowledge in the Healthcare IT market.

Fidelity Growth Partners Europe (Eight Roads Ventures)

Venture Partner

Leading a team dedicated to supporting innovation across the Reed Elsevier Group to accelerate the company’s growth through significantly improved innovation capability and impact. Focus on internal innovation and external venture capital partnerships.

Reed Elsevier

Senior Vice President of Innovation

Responsible for directing the portfolio strategy across BT’s lines of business and ensuring that BT had the right portfolio to meet customers’ needs and group financial targets, at the same time driving convergent services and solutions for the future.  Championed the collation of innovations from across the business and outside of BT and, by utilising customer insight, assisted in delivering them to the market as customer propositions.  Additionally provided critical strategic analysis of commercial market and technology trends in order to assure BT’s portfolio was fit for purpose now and in the future.  Partner on BT's internal Venture Capital Board responsible for evaluating and funding internal ventures in order to grow new business opportunities.

BT Group, plc

Director, Portfolio Innovation

Responsible for end-to-end delivery of this SaaS solution.

Simdesk Technologies (Mezeo Software)

VP of Technical Operations

Full P&L accountability for the Fiber Optical Metropolitan Area Network subsidiary of Sierra Pacific (Nevada Power).  Led the business to cash flow positive, resulting in a successful turn-around and positive sale of the business.

Sierra Pacific Communications

Chief Operating Officer

Responsible for the global network and systems engineering, IT, architecture, and an organization of 300 persons with a budget of $100M.  Retained post-bankruptcy to oversee the commercial asset disposition of the Broadband business, interfacing directly with acquirers, creditors, attorneys, advisors, and the court and personally liquidating $100s of millions of assets and customer contracts.

Enron Broadband Services

Vice President of Engineering

Designed, engineered, specified, and purchased the overall system infrastructure for the delivery of the service, the underlying Internet Data Platform, and corporate IT platform for the leading provider of intelligent access and management of stored data.  Assisted in crafting the corporation’s business plan and raising over $120M in investment.

Xdrive Technologies (AOL)

CTO/CIO

Dunbar Ventures

Managing Director

Led the systems and network operations of a national, Tier 1 Internet Service Provider (ISP) including design, configuration, and maintenance of the computational and network assets used both internally and for customer services.  Managed numerous, national Points of Presence (POPs) and three regional datacenters.  Managed team to maintain physical, network and systems security.  Epoch merged with my company, Internet Atlanta in August 1996.

Daryl Dunbar

Daryl Dunbar