Proximity appoints Jignesh Patel as Business Development Director

Proximity Data Centres Limited, the UK’s fast growing regional edge colocation data centre provider, is pleased to announce the appointment of Jignesh Patel as Business Development Director.  

With responsibility for Proximity’s enterprise sales and leading the development of strategic hyperscale and alliance partnerships, Patel brings two decades of IT and data centre industry sales experience. He joins from Stellium Data Centres where he led the development of strategic partnerships for two years, preceded by senior sales roles at Iron Mountain Data Centres and Equinix.

“Bringing data and services closer to the end user has never been more important,” said Jignesh Patel. “More organisations are looking for increased reliability, better cost optimisation, more autonomy, lower latency, and the ability to innovate while keeping the lights on. These goals now require a much more holistic approach to innovative technologies such as AI, Machine Learning and IOT and the ability to leverage them effectively. Proximity’s growing edge data centre network will ensure they have the resilient infrastructure, bandwidth and low latency necessary to do this.”

John Hall, Managing Director – Colocation, Proximity Data Centres, commented, said: “Jignesh is a highly experienced data centre sales professional and will play a key role in helping accelerate our future growth through enterprise market business development and the strengthening of strategic relationships including with hyperscalers. We are delighted someone of his calibre and track record has joined Proximity which is indicative of the exciting high growth market we operate in and the quality of the rapidly expanding edge data centre solutions that Proximity offers.”