Adam Eaton

Adam joined Global Switch as Managing Director, London in 2022 and was soon after promoted to his current role of Executive Group Director (London). Adam has around 20 years of experience across the data centre sectors, technology and cloud sector.

Career

Adam started his career as a consultant for a global ERP firm which gave him the opportunity to move to Australia in 2000. Whilst in Australia he Joined IBM Australia as a Business Development Executive, before returning to the UK in 2009 at which point he spent nearly six years in sales and sales management at a leading global data centre provider in the UK. Adam left this role to join Pulsant, one of the UK’s leading cloud service providers, in the role of Sales Director. After Pulsant, Adam acquired and lead his own cloud and IT services company, Nimoveri, before selling it to IDE Group in 2020. At IDE Group Adam oversaw the turnaround of their Network, Colocation and Managed Services division allowing it to be sold to CloudCoCo Ltd at the end of 2021. Over the course of his career Adam has taken his extensive sales, entrepreneurial and leadership skills to deliver significant results and organisational improvements across many different sizes of organisation.

Adam has an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management and a BSc Honours degree in Operations Engineering from Exeter University in the UK.

Responsibilities at Global Switch

As Executive Group Director (London), Adam is responsible for maintaining a best-in-class operational environment for the London Campus whilst continuing to drive business development, new initiatives and new developments including the redevelopment and power upgrade of London North and East and the planned development of the campus to include London South which will provide a further 25,000 sq m gross space and 40 MVA of utility power supply capacity.