REDWOOD
CITY, Calif., Aug. 1, 2022
/PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world's digital
infrastructure company™, today announced the appointment of
Scott Crenshaw to the position of
Executive Vice President & General Manager, Digital
Services.
In this newly created role, Crenshaw will be responsible for
driving the growth and strategy of Equinix's suite of digital
services, including Equinix Fabric™, Equinix Metal® and
Network Edge. He will have direct responsibility for product
management and the associated software engineering teams supporting
these offerings.
Crenshaw's appointment comes at a time when businesses globally
continue to rely upon Equinix for their critical digital
infrastructure needs, including the ability to leverage Equinix's
market-leading interconnected colocation portfolio through virtual,
as a Service and edge solutions.
Highlights/Key Facts
- Additional products under Crenshaw's leadership will include
Equinix Internet Exchange®, Equinix Metro
Connect®, Equinix Internet Access and Equinix Precision
Time®.
- Crenshaw joins Equinix from Concourse Labs, where he has served
as CEO, and previously as President and Chief Operating Officer. As
CEO, he enabled large enterprises to accelerate their digital
transformation by automating cloud security and compliance.
- Prior to Concourse Labs, Crenshaw served in a variety of roles
at Rackspace Technology, Inc., including Executive Vice President
and General Manager, Private Cloud. In this role, he led the growth
of Rackspace's Private Cloud as a Service business to over
$1 billion in revenue and the
introduction of industry-first hybrid and multicloud services for
businesses.
- At Red Hat Software, Crenshaw led the Linux Business Unit and
started the company's Cloud Business Unit, serving as its Vice
President and General Manager. He was a driving force in leading
the company's transformation from a Linux vendor into a major
player in modern cloud infrastructure and developer platforms.
- Crenshaw has held additional positions of senior leadership at
Verisign, Acronis, NTRU and Datawatch Corporation.
- A co-inventor of seven U.S. patents, Crenshaw has also served
as a member of the board of directors for BluVector Inc. and Cloud
Technology Partners, Inc.
- Crenshaw received a B.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and an MBA from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
where he was a Sloan Fellow.
Quotes
- Charles Meyers, President and
Chief Executive Officer, Equinix
"Equinix continues to power the world's digital leaders,
building and operating the most trusted, programmable and
sustainable platform for interconnected infrastructure.
Scott Crenshaw brings a perfect
blend of skills and experience to help us drive our
customer-focused vision for digital services. Scott will help us
envision and deliver the services we need to help customers
transform and scale their infrastructure with speed, agility,
reliability and the cloud-optimized architectures they need to meet
today's business needs and capture tomorrow's opportunities.
Scott's track record of innovation and success at Concourse, Red
Hat and Rackspace make him an ideal leader for this critical
role."
- Scott Crenshaw, EVP &
General Manager, Digital Services, Equinix
"Equinix is a world-class organization with a long track
record in driving innovations that enable businesses to use their
digital infrastructure as a source of commercial advantage and
success. I look forward to leading the Digital Services team as we
deliver customers unique and innovative solutions to accelerate
digital transformation and unlock the power of the extensive hybrid
multicloud ecosystem that fuels Platform Equinix."
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
This press release contains forward-looking statements that
involve 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, 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; a 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 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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