FOSTER CITY, CA — September 30, 2010 — Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX, news, filings), a provider of global data center services, today announced it has named Peter Ferris to the newly formed role of Chief Sales Officer and has hired Charles Meyers as President of North America.
Peter Ferris has held the position of President of North America since 2008 and will now serve as Equinix’s Chief Sales Officer. Charles Meyers, formerly Group President of Messaging and Mobile Media for Verisign, will immediately assume the role of President of North America for Equinix.
“We are transforming our organization to leverage our global platform and maintain a keen focus on helping our customers gain competitive advantage,” said Steve Smith, CEO of Equinix. “Increasingly companies look to Equinix to meet the requirements of a global, digital economy and both Pete’s new role and Charles’ leadership for North America are critical to scale globally and build on our market leading position.”
In his role as Chief Sales Officer, Mr. Ferris will lead the Equinix go-to-market strategy, and manage global accounts and sales operations. Charles Meyers will assume responsibility for managing sales and operations in North America.
Smith added, “We are pleased Charles has joined Equinix and know his strong sales, operational and technical experience will make a significant contribution as we grow our business in North America.”
“I am excited to join such a unique business at this important inflection point for Equinix,” said Charles Meyers, President of North America for Equinix. “I look forward to helping our customers leverage our global data center platform.”
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ: EQIX) provides global data center services that ensure the vitality of the information-driven world. Global enterprises, cloud, content and financial companies, and more than 595 network service providers rely upon Equinix to protect and connect their most valued information assets. Equinix operates 90 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) and partner data centers across 35 metro areas in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Learn more at: http://www.equinix.com.
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Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in recently built out or acquired data centers; failure to complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key customers; and other risks described from time to time in Equinix’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see Equinix’s recent quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.
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