Simon Cooper
Chief Operating Officer
Simon Cooper directs the data centre design , construction , operations businesses at NEXTDC . He is a qualified engineer with extensive leadership experience in the international IT and telecoms industry . Simon was previously based in Singapore as Senior Vice President at Tata Communications , responsible for strategic network development in support of the company ’ s global portfolio .
The Australian market Cooper joined the company in 2011 when NEXTDC was at the early start-up stage . Prior to joining he was Senior Vice President , Network & Solutions , at Tata Communications , where he got to know NEXTDC ’ s then future founder Bevan Slattery while working together on an international submarine cable development project . When Slattery needed a COO he called Cooper because of his extensive experience in the telecommunication sector and successful delivery of multiple large infrastructure businesses .
At the time the data centre market hadn ’ t taken off in Australia , so Cooper seized the chance . “ My previous role was a global one , so I could see what was happening in North America and Europe . The cloud was coming , the enterprise
In the FIRST 12 MONTHS that we had OPTUS ON BOARD THEY INCREASED THEIR FOCUS ON CLOUD SOLUTIONS rather than building data centres and instead make use of ours
38 May 2017