Spencer Lamb

Background

About Spencer Lamb

I am the Chief Commercial Officer at Kao Data and have over 18 years of experience in the data centre sector. Prior to this, I worked in telecommunications, where it became evident that data centres were needed, but not being provided to the quality of customers’ expectations, hence embarking on a specialised focus in this area.I've worked within the start-up and scale-up stages of data centre organisations, providing colocation/hosting services. In 2006 I joined Infinity SDC Ltd, heading up their business development and sales functions, providing multiple megawatt (MW) designs, builds and operations for large scale financial institutions, global system integrators and telecoms operators. I successfully pioneered the UK’s first colocation public sector framework, deploying multiple high performance computing (HPC) installations for high intensity research applications. Following this, in 2017 I joined Icelandic data centre venture, Verne Global, with a focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and high-density colocation requirements, driving growth across their Keflavik data centre. In 2020, I joined Kao Data to lead the company’s go-to-market strategy, and develop its Harlow campus into one of the UK’s leading homes for AI/HPC, scientific research and life sciences compute. More recently I've played a pivotal role in growing Kao Data into a multisite portfolio, establishing new vertical focuses around AI/HPC, hyperscale cloud and financial services, and championing the sustainability and ESG focus of the business.