Panattoni, Europe’s greatest logistics real-estate developer, has created a devoted knowledge centre division and recruited a four-strong management group to drive tasks throughout Europe, the UK, India and the Center East.
The unit might be headed from London by Richard Wellbrock, who turns into Managing Director, Knowledge Centres. With greater than 25 years in property and virtually twenty years within the knowledge centre sector, he was most not too long ago Chief Business Officer at Colt Knowledge Centre Companies (DCS), the place he helped scale capability from 100 MW to 1 GW and supported a $1.5 billion three way partnership with Mitsui.
Becoming a member of him are three former Colt colleagues:
Nick Parker, Head of Capital Deployment, Knowledge Centres – beforehand World Senior Director of Asset Administration at Colt DCS, the place he oversaw greater than €5 billion of capital deployment and c. 250 MW of hyperscale transactions.
John Belton, Head of Growth, Knowledge Centres – a chartered engineer with c. 40 years’ expertise, accountable for a pipeline in a position to ship in extra of 1 GW of IT load worldwide.
Paul Terry, Infrastructure Director, Knowledge Centres – former World Director of Growth Infrastructure at Colt DCS, main end-to-end utility and know-how programmes.
All 4 will report back to Robert Dobrzycki, CEO and co-owner of Panattoni Europe, UK, Center East and India, and can give attention to securing land, energy and funding to fulfill surging demand from hyperscalers, cloud suppliers and enterprise customers.
“It is a important new chapter for Panattoni. Knowledge centres are important infrastructure for the fashionable economic system, and we are actually constructing a world-class platform to ship them. Richard and his group carry distinctive expertise and perception,” mentioned Robert Dobrzycki.
“Panattoni has an excellent monitor document of improvement at scale and tempo. With our group now in place, we’re wanting ahead to rising the enterprise throughout Europe, the UK, India and the Center East, supporting hyperscalers, cloud suppliers and enterprise prospects with high-quality data-centre options,” added Richard Wellbrock.
The corporate is already within the means of constructing its first knowledge centre (pictured above), which might be situated in Barcelona. That web site is anticipated to be operational in 2026, however might be just the start for Panattoni’s knowledge centre plans – which it’s hoping will capitalise on its longstanding experience in large-scale industrial and logistics improvement, which has seen it ship greater than 23 million sqm throughout Europe.
