Sustainability Magazine September 2021 | Page 99

IRON MOUNTAIN DATA CENTERS & WEB WERKS
MICHAEL GOH
customers ' digital infrastructure needs . Over the past few years , Iron Mountain Data Centers has built a substantial data centre platform in the US , where it operates sites from New Jersey to Phoenix , as well as across the Atlantic in London , Frankfurt , and Amsterdam .
“ We are currently very strong and growing fast in America and Europe ,” Goh explains , “ and we want to do the same in Asia but even faster . We want a substantial global platform .” Goh , a data centre and telecoms veteran with two decades worth of experience , is based in Singapore - where Iron Mountain opened its first APAC facility in 2019 . His previous success building extensive data centre platforms throughout the region is , he explains , exactly what Iron Mountain Data Centers has hired him to do . He explains that the reputation Iron Mountain established as a security-focused record management company is one of the keystones of their competitive advantage today . “ We built up real customer trust over the 70 years that

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TITLE : GENERAL MANAGER , APAC COMPANY : IRON MOUNTAIN DATA CENTERS
Michael Goh is the Senior Director and General Manager for Iron Mountain ’ s data centre division for Asia . Prior to Iron Mountain , Michael spent 12 years at NTT Communications and last held a post of an Executive Director for Data Centre Services based in Singapore , where he successfully launched and grew NTT ’ s data centre business in Singapore . Michael ’ s initial leadership roles were with NTT , where he led a team of product managers and sales specialists and helped launch and manage NTT ’ s Data Center , Cloud and domestic connectivity products . Michael graduated with a Bachelor ’ s degree in Computer Engineering from the Nanyang Technology University in Singapore .