Executive Leadership
Milan Radia, CEO
Milan commenced his involvement in the global data centre industry in 1999, when he joined UBS Warburg's London-based technology team with a focus on internet infrastructure. During the subsequent 17 years at UBS, Bridgwell and Jefferies, Milan was involved in many of the key IPOs and M&A events in the data centre industry and built strong relationships with management and major investors in the sector.
From 2017, Milan worked at Interxion Digital Realty, where he reported to Interxion's CEO, David Ruberg, focusing on the Middle East, Africa and subsea cables. This included involvement in and oversight of business cases, funding requests, expansion initiatives, site selection, financial reporting, customer contracts (including the subsea cable landings for 2Africa), the strategic relationship with Pembani Remgro and various other operational activities.
At EDGNEX (a subsidiary of the expansive DAMAC Group headquartered in Dubai), Milan was Senior Vice President of Data Centres, responsible for a range of markets in Europe, Middle East and Africa. During this period, Milan built a pipeline of data centre deployment agreements and engagements across 8 markets working with Governments, sovereign funds, cloud and content platforms and major institutional investors.
Alongside ConnectedCompute, Milan is a senior partner at Taranis Capital, a Dubai-based investment firm with funds focused on data centres, disruptive technologies and biotech. He is married with 3 children and lives in Dubai.
