Cushman & Wakefield has strengthened the senior leadership team of its APAC and EMEA data centre group with three senior appointments.
Tom Glover, who has 15 years of data centre sector experience, joins the firm as head of data centre group, EMEA. Glover, who was previously executive director and EMEA head of data centre transactions at JLL, will lead the continued EMEA build-out of Cushman & Wakefield’s data centre group.
Andrew Fray has taken on the newly created role of head of origination and major transactions, APAC and EMEA, and James Polkinghorne (pictured) has joined Cushman & Wakefield as head of operations, data centre group, APAC and EMEA. Based in Singapore, Polkinghorne joins from AirTrunk, the Blackstone-owned hyperscale data centre platform. Prior to this, he spent five years at Macquarie Group.
Tom Gibson, president – data centre group, APAC and EMEA at Cushman & Wakefield, said: “These three appointments reflect both the scale of our ambition in EMEA and the way our clients’ needs have evolved. Tom Glover’s appointment is a key milestone in extending to EMEA the momentum we have built in Asia Pacific. He is highly respected in the data centre industry, while his 30-year technology career began in software, which, combined with his data centre expertise, gives him a rare end-to-end understanding of the technology stack.
“Andrew Fray’s new cross-regional remit recognises how our largest clients operate today. The most complex powered land, AI colocation and platform mandates no longer sit neatly within a single region, and our clients increasingly expect a single senior point of accountability. Andrew’s track record on precisely these mandates makes him the right person to lead this.
“James is a critical data centre group appointment to ensure we bring the very best of Cushman & Wakefield to our clients. His combination of operator-side experience, institutional capital exposure and project development will be invaluable as we build out our EMEA platform and continue to scale in APAC.”
