Speaker Profile

Tesh Durvasula is Chief Executive Officer of AtlasEdge and a digital infrastructure and data centre industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience in development, finance, sales, marketing, and real estate.

 

Before joining AtlasEdge, he served as CEO of Africa Data Centres (ADC), where he led the company’s hyperscale expansion. Under his leadership, ADC scaled up its management team and became one of the continent’s largest operators.

 

Prior to ADC, Tesh held various executive roles at CyrusOne, eventually becoming the company's CEO. During his eight-plus years at CyrusOne, the company’s annual revenue grew from $221 million in 2012 to over $1 billion by 2020. As president of Europe for CyrusOne, he oversaw the company's expansion into England, Ireland, France, and Germany, contributing to CyrusOne's growth into one of the largest publicly traded REITs in the US.

 

Mr. Durvasula's earlier roles include Chief Marketing and Business Officer for Telx, founder of NYC-Connect, and various management positions at Abovenet, Sprint, and Metromedia Fiber Networks.

 

He is a graduate of Syracuse University and has completed EMBA work at Columbia University and Stanford University.