Primarily based at Verne’s headquarters in London, Leary will assist steer the strategic path of the corporate, figuring out alternatives to develop its Northern European information heart platform, whereas on the similar time serving to the corporate realise its bold environmental, social and governance (ESG) objectives.
Leary joins Verne from Amazon Internet Providers, the place she spent six years working in senior enterprise improvement roles inside its information heart provide technique workforce. Previous to that, she had an 11-year tenure at Akamai, initially within the US, earlier than shifting to Germany to change into the Head of Information Middle Technique for the EMEA area. Dedicated to bettering variety throughout the workforce, Leary can also be the European Champion for the Girls’s Tech Discussion board, a group of ladies and allies within the cloud, networking and information heart infrastructure industries, for which Verne is a ‘Recreation Changer’ sponsor.
“Maureen brings a wealth of expertise to Verne, so we’re delighted to welcome her to our workforce,” mentioned Nick Dale, Chief Gross sales Officer, Verne. “Her confirmed monitor document of figuring out progress alternatives for a number of the largest information heart operators on the earth collectively together with her ardour for bettering the sustainability and variety throughout the sector, makes her the best individual to assist us obtain our enlargement and ESG goals.”
“Verne has been an organization I’ve adopted carefully all through my profession attributable to its management in sustainable innovation throughout the information heart business,” mentioned Leary. “With the latest surge in AI, machine studying and different high-intensity compute functions, the demand for information heart providers is at an all-time excessive. Nevertheless, it is essential that this progress would not come on the expense of the atmosphere. That is the place Verne excels, and I am keen to assist the corporate discover new enlargement alternatives which can be environmentally accountable.”
