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Frederic Daniel van Husen is the Managing Director of Princeton Digital Group in Indonesia, where his focus is on accelerating the deployment of cutting-edge data center infrastructure. His mission is to create robust, scalable and sustainable solutions that empower PDG’s customers in one of Asia Pacific’s most vibrant economies.

With over a decade rich, international experience in growth projects across the Middle East and Asia-Pacific, Frederic has an extensive background in navigating complex international trade related supply chains, and managing large-scale, sector-diverse projects.

In his previous roles, Frederic led HVAC projects across multiple Gulf states, where he established successful partnerships with private groups and public entities. This includes delivering across the whole value chain as well as deployment of advanced technologies and solutions in Southeast Asia to support major industrial conglomerates.

His recent tenure as Managing Director for DKSH's Technology Unit in Indonesia, saw him successfully meet the intricate technological demands of the hyperscale and colocation industry and support the unique demands of local and international clients in the data center space.

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Shalini Lagrutta boasts a remarkable 20-year track record in the telecoms and data centre industry. Her journey includes pivotal roles in renowned companies such as Fujitsu Telecommunications, Huawei, LGC Wireless in Silicon Valley, and Flexenclosure. Notably, Shalini’s leadership at DXN since 2019 has propelled significant sales growth in Modular Data Centres. Shalini’s contribution at DXN since 2019 to 2022 was as bringing in significant customers and revenue growth to the business. Since being appointed as CEO on 2022, her focus has been to restructure the company including exiting unprofitable businesses and focusing on turning the company around to profitable growth. Recognised for her outstanding contributions, she earned accolades like Capacity Media’s 20 Women to Watch in 2020, Top 30 Edge Computing Leaders by Data Economy in 2020, and a spot-on Capacity Media’s 2021 Power 100 listing. Shalini’s recent achievement includes being honoured as one of the Infrastructure Masons (iM100) award recipients in December 2021 as well as 2024 TOP-10 APAC Women Leaders by Data Centre Magazine —a testament to her inspiring leadership in shaping the digital age.

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Jon Curry is the Vice President of Operations, Asia Pacific at Digital Realty and has over 25 years experience in the IT industry covering an array of disciplines starting from the ground up as a computer operator in 1985 on a DOS/VSE mainframe. Jon rapidly progressed to a Network Systems Programmer and finally an MVS sysprog before heading off to the UK where he worked for Avis Europe, British Telecom and Nuclear Electric on a number of challenging projects including the privatization of the UK electricity industry. On his return to Australia Jon worked in various senior management roles with Arnotts Biscuits, Unisys, Coca Cola Amatil, Mercantile Mutual, Prudential & MLC Insurance. During this time Jon leveraged his technical experience to move into program management and the art of outsourcing management. Jon has spent time on both sides of the IT fence as a customer buying IT services and products and as a provider selling and supporting software, networks and services

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Swati is Chief Investment Officer, DCI Data Centers. With over a decade of experience across banking, private equity and data centers, Swati has directly led growth and expansion for DCI in APAC and previously for STT Global Data Centers. Prior to this, Swati also worked with Blackstone Real Estate in Singapore and London and credits her varied experience for igniting her life long passion for building long term businesses while keeping an eye on the detail. Swati holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

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Eugene Seo is Managing Director, Data Centre at CapitaLand Investment (CLI). He oversees strategy and execution of the data centre business, and works closely with CLI’s listed funds and private funds on this specialised asset class. Prior to CapitaLand, Eugene held several roles in investment and portfolio management at Ascendas-Singbridge (ASB). Before joining ASB, he was Head of InfoComms & Media at the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and responsible for industry development and investment promotion of Singapore’s digital services sector. Eugene holds a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University, USA and a Master of Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University, USA.

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Oscar is currently leading the team in EDGE DC, a company of Digital Edge -  data center service provider with low latency located in downtown Jakarta. Combining his knowledge in edge data center and cloud computing, he’s passionate to share how both can accelerate and grow digital business in Indonesia.

Starting his career as Sales Manager at DCI Indonesia, he was responsible for managing Cloud Service Providers, Financial Services, and large enterprises from Fortune 500 companies. Prior to EDGE DC, Oscar was in Amazon Web Services, where he handled mature Indonesia startups to achieve their business goals. Oscar earned his Bachelor of Engineer degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.

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Sara is an experienced Data Centre Operations Director with over 18 years of experience in Data Centre / Critical Environment / Facilities Management and Project Management industry.

He joined Iron Mountain Data Centers in March 2019, and has been responsible for the overall operations of Iron Mountain Data Center in Singapore and India, ensuring zero downtime ever since.

Sara has demonstrated strong leadership and support to staff and teams, proficient in Data Centre Management, facilities management, project management and budgeting skills, problem solving, cost saving, energy saving, and the standardization of business and operational procedures. He provides his client base with strategic solutions to ensure that facilities and contracts are maximized and operational delivery exceeds expectations.

Prior to joining IMDC, Sara held positions in CBRE and Cofely FMO – ENGIE (Formerly Keppel FMO) as Critical Facility Manager for various data center accounts, as well as Business Development.

Sara holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Alagappa University, India, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics from Annamalai University, India. He is also a Singapore Certified Energy Manager.

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Foong Kheng leads a team of engineers from the Global Switch within Design and Engineering function, she has responsibility for day-to-day engineering management, compliance reporting, provide direction, analyses and solutions to the organisation. She works with the regional and global management team in order to develop and implement the organisation's design and engineering best practices so that its facilities are designed and engineered effectively.

Among her credentials, she is a Chartered Manager (CMgr) with the Chartered Manager Institute (CMI) and a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the Engineering Council.

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As Co-Founder and CEO, Darren’s role is to ensure that Evolution Data Centres delivers on its strategic vision to become the leading pan-Asian data centre platform, delivering digital growth, reliably and sustainably, into high growth markets (often referred to as Tier 2 markets). Evolution are actively developing projects today, across the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

Darren’s career spans the full breadth of the digital infrastructure ecosystem, including Telco, Data Centre and Artificial Intelligence. Darren was the Asia Managing Director for IO Data Centres, where he had overall leadership for a modular-designed data center in Singapore. Darren led this business to net cash flow positive and ultimately to a successful exit.

In his time in telco, Darren delivered significant investment programmes, with budgets of over £500m, while leading Vodafone’s strategic investments across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Part of this role included Darren establishing the Vodafone Enterprise brand in the UAE. Prior to Vodafone, Darren was MD of Cable & Wireless for Asia, in addition to running their Global Enterprise sales channel, a business delivering annualised revenue of over £240m.

Along with his Evolution Fo-founder and team, Darren is passionate about culture in the workplace. He aspires for Evolution to be an organization where everyone is a driver and there are no passengers. All the team are responsible for moving Evolution forward every day in the right direction, he encourages all the team to take ownership and accountability. He is often heard saying and reminding himself, to enjoy the journey, rather than being obsessed with the destination.

Sustainability is a cornerstone of Darren’s approach, his goal is to drive change in the industry to deliver greener data centres (he doesn’t agree with, or like, the phrase “green data centres”). This ambition is brought to life in Evolution where every effort is made to minimize the environmental impact of every data center project that the company develops.

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Donna is an Engineering Fellow, a practising Chartered engineer [Electrical & Management], an International professional Engineer (IntPE), a certified Project Manager (PMP), Business Continuity Practitioner (MBCI), and Member of the Institute of Directors (NZ).

Donna brings over 25 years' experience in the fields of engineering professional services, technology, project management, business continuity and governance. With experience gained through positions spanning New Zealand (NZ), Australia, Asia Pacific, Europe and the United Kingdom, Donna has held a range of key design, client-centric, people leadership and operational management roles, including Regional Operations Manager in NZ for a global engineering consultancy firm.

For a period of five years, Donna led Technical Services portfolios across NZ, Chile, Fiji, and the Philippines (1100+ staff) championing technical development, engineering excellence and collaborative knowledge sharing across diverse time zones and cultures.

Donna provides engineering industry leadership as a member of Engineering New Zealand’s Practice Advisory Committee, which provides advice around key engineering issues and government policy proposals which could impact the profession and reputation of engineering with stakeholders; additionally, Donna is involved with strategic fore-sighting to position the profession of engineering for ongoing relevancy and societal benefit.

Donna enjoys engaging globally with professionals and peers around opportunities within the rapidly advancing digital infrastructure sector.  She stays connected through involvement in industry events and as a judge on global Awards panels. Donna is motivated to encourage data center skills acquisition in a talent and diversity constrained market, through sharing knowledge and experiences acquired since the dot.com technology boom.

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