Portus Information Facilities has appointed Jörgen Venot as Director of Worldwide Gross sales. He’s a seasoned worldwide C-Degree government and entrepreneur with in depth administration expertise and a confirmed monitor document in delivering main colocation, HPC and information heart gross sales.
Jörgen has been lively within the information heart trade for over 15 years having joined pan-European information heart colocation operator Etix All over the place in 2015 the place he subsequently grew to become Senior Vice President of Gross sales after which CEO of Northern Europe. Most not too long ago, he was Precept of Information Heart Companions, a Munich-based funding boutique targeted on colocation and hyperscale information facilities in strategic areas throughout the DACH area.
Beforehand he was Chief Gross sales Officer at Information Citadel – a sustainable information heart platform supplier based mostly in Germany – having joined the corporate in 2023 from digital infrastructure companies specialists The Information Heart Group the place he was Head of Gross sales & Advertising and marketing. Whereas there he had additionally served as Worldwide Gross sales Director of DC Merchandise GmbH, the corporate’s edge IT safety merchandise subsidiary.
“I consider my deep data of the worldwide information heart trade from strategic enterprise growth to operations, funding, design, planning and building shall be invaluable in my new position,” stated Jörgen Venot. “I’m very a lot wanting ahead to making sure we speed up and maximise current and new worldwide consumer enterprise alternatives within the DACH area in addition to in different strategic European edge markets sooner or later.”
Adriaan Oosthoek, Chairman, Portus Information Facilities, stated: “We’re very excited to have Jörgen be part of us. He’s extremely skilled and well-known and regarded in our trade and shall be instrumental in serving to Portus efficiently ship on our long-term progress technique, driving important gross sales revenues from strategic worldwide purchasers in our present and future edge colocation markets.”
Fluent in French, English and German, Jörgen is an iMasons Infrastructure Member. Previous to coming into the info heart enterprise, he had a profitable profession in varied IT companies together with Ancestry.com and 15 years within the enterprise stationery manufacturing trade, at Tompla and Curtis 1000 Europe AG (Taylor Company).
