About company
About IXAfrica
The first Hyperscale Data Centre in East Africa, based in Nairobi Kenya.
Vendor and carrier neutral data centres are the preferred format and a critical piece in creating an IT infrastructure ecosystem.
Data centres globally and Africa, in particular, will continue to see tremendous data centre IP traffic growth based on:
- Cloud computing
- Data Residency laws
- Mobile data
- Compliance
- Big informtion
- Move to the edge
- IXAfrica will target both domestic and global clients
The founding team has strong background and expertise in building and managing data centers in Africa and other emerging markets.
IX AFRICA CAMPUS LOCATION
access to two separate public highways for diversity of services and traffic
Map of Africa:
Prime Location – strategically located amid Africa’s growing technology epicentre.
- Mombasa Road in Nairobi, Kenya
- Approximately 1KM from the power substation
- Dense concentration of networks
- 17,300 sqm land area
- Campus site with 3 buildings
- 15,587m2 total footprint
- 6,621m2 colocation space
- Very low risk environment from natural threat
Map of Nairobi:
OUR AMAZING TEAM
TEAM
Team Member Experience
Guy Willner
Co-Founder, Chairman
- He founded IXEurope in 1998 (later sold to Equinix)
- and more recently founded the successful IXcellerate in Moscow.
- Ex-President of Equinix Europe
- Co Founder of IXEurope
- NEXD Teraco, South Africa
- NEXD Lamda Helix, Greece
Guy regularly features among the 50 Most Influential Persons in the Data Center, Cloud Computing Data Industry and Big Data industry in the EMEA region
Team Member Experience
Snehar Shah
Chief Executive Officer
- Extensive career over 15 years at Global Telecoms Operator, Orange, covering various leadership roles in Finance & Strategy across UK, Europe and East Africa
- Was at the helm of the Start-up ecosystem on the African continent having built businesses such as Eaton Towers as Regional CFO (sold to American Tower in 2018),
- Azuri Technologies as GM, Africa (powered more than 250,000 households across five African countries)
- CEO Moringa School (leading coding bootcamp provider in the region) and stepping up to Non Exec and Chair of their Tech Advisory Board.
Team Member Experience
Andrew Hunt
Share Holder
- Founding Investor and start-up CFO, Teraco, South Africa
- Founder Marlow Capital
- 20 Years in experience in Investment Banking
- Investor in IXcellerate, Russia
Team Member Experience
Naresh Mehta
- Founder of Power Technics
- Chairman of Schneider Electric, Kenya
- Chevalier De L’Ordre National Du Mérite (French Order of Merit)
- 40 Years in Electrical Engineering, East Africa
- Founder Prisma Technics, Consulting Engineering Services
Team Member Experience
Clement Martineau
Nairobi – Co-founder & Projects Director
- Orange Telkom Kenya, Kenya
- 10 Years of real estate project management
Team Member Experience
Niraj Shah
Nairobi – Snr VP – Sales and Business Development
15 years experience in effective team leadership & management, and Sales.
- GM – Icolo.io
- Country Manager – Avis Budget brand
- Head of Marketing – Business Markets at Telkom Orange
- Chief Commercial Officer Sintel Security Print Solutions Ltd
- Chief Operations Officer – Rapid Communications Ltd