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Mike Meyer
With over 25 years in the digital infrastructure, data center, and IT sectors, Mike Meyer is an accomplished entrepreneur, director, executive, non-executive and board member. He has held senior leadership roles across PE-backed businesses, high-growth startups, and global corporations, bringing expertise in growth, diversification, scaling operations, M&A, and strategic leadership.
Mike is currently the CEO/Managing Director, and owner, at Portman Partners, specializing in executive search for the digital infrastructure sector, Executive Board Member for the UK Data Centre Alliance, on the Advisor Council for Infrastructure Masons a global, nonprofit, professional association of individuals connected and empowered to build a greater digital future for all and a Non-Executive director at Flint DC, a Portman businesses, and the One Eighty Group.
Mike has successfully built and exited businesses in the data center space and played a key role in expanding a UK data centre services company to 16 countries, supporting a blue-chip FTSE 100 client base.
As a Non-Executive Director, Mike provides strategic governance, commercial insight, and talent development expertise to organizations in the data center, cloud, and technology industries. His global experience across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East makes him an asset to businesses seeking international growth and operational excellence.
Other TEAM MEMBERS
Dave Pye
Chairman
Dave is a recognised business leader with a 25-year background in the professional services and recruitment sector.
Sanjeev Khanna
Strategic Advisor
Sanjeev is a recognized digital infrastructure business leader with 30 years’ experience across businesses such as Intel, Microsoft and Oracle.
Ben Wilkes
Global Partner
Ben has been aligned with the global data centre space for 25+ years
Dr. Terri Simpkin
Australasia Partner
Terri is a forward-thinking academic, consultant, public speaker, educator and co-author of the world’s first Master’s Degree in Data Center Leadership and Management.
Gary Buckley
Partner
Gary brings more than 25 years of executive search expertise across the Retail, Leisure, Hospitality, and Consumer sectors. He has built his career partnering with founders, boards, and investors to place senior leaders and board-level talent at some of the UK’s most recognisable brands.
Adelle Desouza
Adelle’s created and led an award winning early careers function for an international telco firm.
Prof. Ian Bitterlin
Ian is a Chartered Engineer with more than 27 years’ experience in data center power and cooling. He has been awarded ‘Outstanding Contribution to the DC Industry’ twice, by Data Centres Europe in ’09 and by DataCenterDynamics in ’15.