euNetworks Group Limited, today announced the appointment of two new Directors to their Board. These appointments are effective 12 April, 2010.
London, UNITED KINGDOM – 12 April 2010 – euNetworks Group Limited, today announced the appointment of two new Directors to their Board. These appointments are effective 12 April, 2010.
Daniel Aegerter is Chairman and Founder of Armada Investment Group which he established as his family office organisation following the successful merger of his B2B software company, TRADEX Technologies, with Ariba for $5.6 billion in March 2000. As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TRADEX, Aegerter was responsible for setting the strategic direction for the company. Since that time and in his position at Armada Investment Group, he has been actively involved in initiating private equity and venture capital transactions, and has invested across asset classes and regions. He founded his first business in 1988 and is involved in several social investment projects and is a member of the World Economic Forum. Aegerter is a long standing investor in euNetworks.
Kai-Uwe Ricke has worked in the telecommunications industry for nearly 20 years, and was Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Telekom AG. Today he is Partner and Chairman of the Board for Delta Partners and is also active in private equity. He is an investor and a member of the advisory board of Kabel Baden-Württemberg and a member of the advisory board of Exigen Capital, a U.S. based private equity firm. Ricke holds seats as Independent Director on the managing boards of Italian Insurance company Generali SpA and the Dubai based Oger Telecom Ltd. He also serves as a member of the supervisory board of United Internet AG, Germany.
euNetworks is a critical bandwidth infrastructure company. We own and operate 18 fibre based metropolitan networks connected with a high-capacity intercity backbone covering 53 cities in 17 countries across Europe. The company leads the market in data centre connectivity, directly connecting over 585 today, and is also a leading cloud connectivity provider, with over 180 on-ramps on our network directly connecting all key cloud providers and major platforms. This coupled with our extensive connected data centre footprint positions us strongly to support and enable our Customers with their cloud infrastructure developments and challenges.