Following a career that spanned communications development and management, project and change communications for companies such as the MoD and BBC and interactive media, I joined Ark Data Centres in 2009. The company had by that time acquired a 35 acre ex-MoD site in Wiltshire, the first 800kW module going live a year later. Today, Ark has fully built out that site and another comparable site in Farnborough, plus another 5 sites across the South of England either being occupied or under development. This on the strength of world class energy efficient and water efficient designs, a commitment to highly secure, resilient architecture and agile, industrialised deployment. Beginning with early market research, bid management and management information responsibilities, and after a two-year spell as Head of Culture I am now Ark’s Director Public Affairs. I also presently Chair the Data Centre Council of techUK.